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Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
(Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)This paper has a twofold objective. Firstly, recent land policy both at EEC and Irish government levels is evaluated from the perspective of the small family farm in County Lcitrim. one of Ireland's most marginal farming ... -
The Archaeology of Aran
(Tír Eolas, Kinvara, 1994)The Book of Aran contains chapters on the geology, flora and fauna, archaeology, history and culture of the three Aran Islands, Inis Mór, Inis Meáin and Inis Oírr. Chapter 5 is a detailed account of the islands' archaeology ... -
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
(2015)This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland. -
Ballinderry Crannóg No. 2, Co. Offaly: the Later Bronze Age
(Journal of Irish Archaeology, 1997)A reconsideration of the later Bronze Age horizon at Ballinderry No. 2 where the Harvard Archaeological Mission uncovered a substantial rectangular wooden building. A case is made for the former existence of a second such ... -
Beyond economics: redefining development
(De Gruyter Open, 1992)Since the short-lived interlude of impressive growth and prosperity in the 1970s, the dual scourges of involuntary emigration and high unemployment have returned to plague Irish society. Having increasingly become part ... -
Big Pharma's internationalization of R&D to China
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-18)China's increasing integration into the global pharmaceutical value chain is occurring at a time when big pharma's traditional R&D model has entered a period of crisis, and when China faces significant challenges in providing ... -
A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
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The Bronze Age Burials of Ireland
(Galway University Press, 1990)A county-by-county survey of Irish Bronze Age burials recorded up to the mid 1980s -
Causes and consequences of fertility decline
(De Gruyter Open, 1993)While there is widespread concern throughout Europe during the current period of economic recession with high levels of unemployment and the recent upsurge in refugee movements associated with the serious ethnic conflict ... -
The Cave of Crúachain and the Otherworld
(2014)Oweynagat (Úaimh na gCat), the cave of the cats, is a natural cave with a souterrain attached in the royal site of Rathcroghan, Co. Roscommon. Today it is an inconspicuous monument but is famous in early literature as an ... -
The Celticization of the West: an Irish perspective
(1991)It is argued that the emergence of a Celtic language in Ireland was the culmination of a long process of social and economic interaction at an elite level between Ireland and Britain, and between these islands and adjacent ... -
Challenges for coastal management in Ireland. Case study: The Maharees, Castlegregory, County Kerry
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Challenging the political economies of injustice: An interview with David Harvey
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Cheques and Balances
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China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis
(Elsevier, 2015-07-07)This paper synthesises evidence from international trade data of China-based ICT companies in order to map their involvement in the ICT global value chain (GVC). The ICT GVC is divided into three types of companies: Own ... -
Closing the neoliberal gap: risk and regulation in the long war of securitization
(Wiley, 2010)When US military commanders refer today to the “long war”, they could more instructively refer to the “long war of securitization”, involving both practices of war and reconstruction that have always been based on a ... -
Continuity, cult and contest
(Four Courts Press, 2011)The degree to which pagan traditions influenced early medieval Irish literature has been the subject of some debate. The phrase a window on the Iron Age once encapsulated a view that epic tales in particular depicted a ... -
Contours of colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the early colonial subject
(2004)The sixteenth century is critical to our reading of Ireland's subsequent colonial and indeed postcolonial geographies, yet has frequently evaded considered scrutiny for a variety of reasons, including the deficiencies of ... -
Cost competitive places: shifting fortunes and the closure of Dell's manufacturing facility in Ireland
(2011)In the early days of 2009 the city of Limerick in the mid-west region of Ireland was dealt a massive blow by the PC manufacturer Dell. After months, if not years, of speculation, the company had finally decided to move all ...