Browsing School of Geography, Archaeology and Irish Studies by Title
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Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
(Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
Finn’s Seat: topographies of power and royal marchlands of Gaelic polities in medieval Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-10-31)Hill- and mountain-top cairns and mounds in Ireland are often viewed as epiphenomenal features of the medieval landscape. In recent years, research on early medieval ferta, ancestral burial places cited in the legal procedure ... -
Foredune accretion under offshore winds
(Elsevier, 2007)Experiments carried out at Magilligan Strand on the north coast of Ireland suggest that topographic steering of offshore winds is an important facet of the aeolian sediment transport system at this location. A five-day ... -
Foreign R&D in China: An evolving innovation landscape
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Formaoil na Fiann: hunting preserves and assembly places in Gaelic Ireland.
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Fortification in the North (1200 -1600)
(Aarhus University Press, 2011-11)This paper looks at different types of fortification used across north-west Europe between the twelfth and early seventeenth centuries. These incude castles, town walls, artillery fortifications, linear fortifications, ... -
Fostering an Irish identity through art: A letter from Sylvester O'Halloran (1728-1807) to James Barry (1741-1806) in May 1791
(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2010)In 1843 an article from the secretary of the Cork Art-Union, which had appeared originally in the Southern Reporter, was sent to and published on page 12 of The Nation on the 2 December 1843. Included with this article was ... -
Foucault and the colonial subject: Emergent forms of colonial governmentality in early modern Ireland
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Four million patients who failed to attend
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Framing the sustainable energy challenge and implications for solutions
(Palgrave Pivot, Cham, 2019-06-08)Sustainable consumption policies often rely on ecological modernisation rationality, where the focus is usually on making current consumption patterns more sustainable in such a way that status quo (ideas about the quality ... -
From foreign technology dependence towards greater innovation autonomy: China's integration into the information and communications technology (ICT) global value chain (GVC)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-03-30)China s integration into the information and communications technology global value chain has taken place as global technology corporations outsourced and offshored an increasing range of functions, including manufacturing, ... -
From invisibility to impact: Recognising the scientific and societal relevance of interdisciplinary sustainability research
(Elsevier, 2017-11-20)Academics are increasingly expected to produce concrete and directly applicable solutions to hard-to-solve 'real world problems' such as poverty, development, and environmental degradation. However, conventional assessments ... -
From Milan to Kilbaha: Bronzing Irish traditional music
(Irish American Cultural Institute, 2019)Monuments represent important anchoring devices, tying “collective remembering” to physical places and mobilizing a sense of shared memory and identity consolidation (Rowlands and Tilley 500).1 In the specifically Irish ... -
The Funerary Bowls and Vases of the Irish Bronze Age
(Galway University Press, 1993)This illustrated corpus of pottery from burial contexts in Bronze Age Ireland c. 2500-1500 BC was prepared by John Waddell with the assistance of Breandán Ó Ríordáin and the National Museum of Ireland. It includes a study ... -
Future-proofing heritage in Ireland: community, education and stewardship
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Gaelic service kindreds and the landscape identity of Lucht Tighe
(Cork University Press, 2018-03-06)This paper discusses the character of the lands of householders who served the courts of Gaelic lords in later medieval Ireland and how their association with those lands, which were mostly of early medieval royal origin, ... -
The gathering place of Tír Fhiachrach? Archaeological and folkloric investigations at Aughris, Co Sligo
(Royal Irish Academy, 2001)This paper explores evidence for modern popular gatherings on Aughris head land, Co. Sligo, and attempts to define the landscape on the headland where medieval royal assembly may also have taken place. The spatial ... -
Gender and archaeology
(Oxford University Press, 2022-02-21)In archaeology, gender is not a simple man-woman binary classification. It is the performance and embodiment of an identity that intersects with age, sex, race, sexuality, and class. One is not born, but rather becomes, a ... -
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
(Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ... -
The geoeconomic pivot of the global war on terror: US Central Command and the war in Iraq
(Routledge, 2009)[No abstract available]