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A reassembly of the monumental fragments in Dowth townland and their significance as an integral part of the prehistoric numinous precince of Brú na Bóinne, Co. Meath.
(Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland, 2015)
This article explores the early prehistory of Dowth townland and advances a reinterpretation of its surviving archaeological fragments against the contextual backdrop of Newgrange, Knowth and the greater Brú na Bóinne ...
Interrogating institutionalisation and child welfare: the Irish case, 1939–1991*
(Taylor & Francis, 2018-02-20)
The topic of institutionalisation and child welfare in Ireland has garnered increasing national and international public and scholarly attention over the past twenty years. This is not an Irish phenomenon. Governments ...
Placenames database of Ireland: Bunachar logainmneacha na hÉireann
(County Roscommon Historical and Archaeological Society, 2009)
The purpose of this article is to give a brief overview of the online Placenames Database of Ireland (www.logainm.ie). This article will also examine the relevance and importance of this database in relation to research ...
The geophysial survey of the M3 toll-motorway corridor: a prelude to Tara's destruciton?
(Meath Archaeological and Historical Society, 2005)
The geophysical survey of the ‘emerging preferred route’ of the M3 toll-motorway through the
Tara/Skryne valley has identified a wealth of new archaeological monuments. Still greater
numbers of sites have come to light ...
Regionalisation and Globalization in Irish Drama since 1990
(Érudit, 2006-09)
The impact of globalisation on Irish theatre since the early 1990s has been considerable. A study of four recent Irish plays, all produced by "regional" theatre companies, suggests that contemporary Irish theatre is dominated ...
'Ah, Ireland, the caring nation': foreign aid and Irish state identity in the long 1970s
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05)
On a plane leaving Baidoa refugee camp in Somalia in late 1992, an Arab doctor offered John O'Shea, head of the relief agency Goal, a glimpse of how the Irish were viewed in that civil war-ravaged state. ‘Ah, Ireland’, he ...
Humanitarian encounters: Biafra, NGOs and imaginings of the Third World in Britain and Ireland, 1967-70
(Taylor & Francis, 2014-08-21)
This article examines the influence of the
Biafran humanitarian crisis on British and Irish conceptions of the Third
World. Drawing on evidence from NGOs in both countries, it argues that the
explosion of non-governmental ...
The distribution of economic well-being within the Northwest region
(De Gruyter Open, 1989)
For many years, geographers have concerned themselves with
the spatial dimension of economic development and with the
fact that the pattern of development, whether it occurs under
capitalist or socialist regimes, tends ...
Anthony Trollope's Palliser novels and anti-Irish prejudice
(Center for Irish Studies at the University of St. Thomas, 2007)
It is by now taken as axiomatic that representations of Irish characters in Victorian literature were generally negative. However, as Roy Foster shows, they were not universally so; we find one example of a positive treatment ...
Between internationalism and empire: Ireland, the 'Like-Minded' group, and the search for a new international order, 1974-82
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-07-31)
This article examines the response of a group of small and medium-sized states to the Global South's demands for a new international economic order in the 1970s and early 1980s. Reading that experience through the eyes of ...