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Intonation in Liguria and Tuscany: checking for similarities across a traditional isogloss boundary
(Associazione Italiana Scienze della Voce (AISV) and Officinaventuno, 2018)
The present work investigates the intonation systems of two varieties of Italian spoken in Liguria,
namely in La Spezia and Imperia, with the aims of 1) extending the existing knowledge on the
intonation systems of ...
Finding ‘Room to Manoeuvre’: Gender, agency and the family farm
(Rowman and Littlefield, 2014)
Women on Irish farms have been a subject of feminist analysis over the past two
decades. Salient themes in the literature on farm women have been the constraints of
patriarchal agriculture (O'Hara 1997; Shortall, 2004), ...
Neolithic ‘Celtic’ Fields? A reinterpretation of the chronological evidence from Céide Fields in north-western Ireland
(Cambridge University Press, 2017-01-09)
It has long been claimed that the coaxial stone boundaries of Céide Fields, County Mayo, are a phenomenon
of the Irish Early Neolithic analogous to later prehistoric Celtic fields in all but age. This study argues ...
Ethical Issues in Internet Research: International Good Practice and Irish Research Ethics Documents
(Research-publishing.net, 2013)
This chapter discusses the main research ethical concerns that arise
in internet research and reviews existing research ethical guidance
in the Irish context in relation to its application to internet research.
The ...
Can social robots help to reduce loneliness and social isolation in people with dementia? A Delphi survey
(British Geriatrics Society and Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-09-18)
Background: People with dementia (PWD) commonly report feelings of loneliness and
social isolation. Social robots may be a means of supporting connections with friends and family and with the person s environment. This ...
Ireland, The Nation and the Woolfs, Part 1
(Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2019-05)
Readers may be familiar with Virginia Woolf s diary entries concerning the shriek of agony that marked the death by hunger strike in October 1920 of the Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney, as well as the violence in ...
Rural emigration to international destinations and return: a perspective from Ireland
(Faculty of Letters, University of Porto, 2019)
This chapter aims to contribute to a better understanding of international emigration from and return to rural areas
using evidence from Ireland. The paper introduces key concepts relating to migration and return more ...
New opportunities and cautionary steps? Farmers, forestry and rural development in Ireland
(Sciendo, 2011-03-30)
It is argued that European agriculture is currently confronted with a multitude of
critical challenges and developmental changes, in which the viability of farms based
solely on traditional forms of production applies ...
Impregnable towers and pregnable maidens in early modern english drama
(Western Michigan University, Department of English, 2019)
A young, marriageable, and implicitly pregnable woman s imprisonment in a purportedly impregnable tower (usually somewhere in Italy) is a recurrent motif in early modern English drama. Pertinent examples can be found in ...
Speech, silence, and Shakespearean quotation in The Sounding (2017)
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-10-25)
This article examines Catherine Eaton s The Sounding (2017). It uses the polarised critical interpretations that have emerged in response to Isabella s wordlessness in Act 5 of Shakespeare s Measure for Measure as a useful ...