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Agricultural policy and land tenure in an Irish marginal country
Grimes, Seamus (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 ... -
Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (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. -
Beyond economics: redefining development
Grimes, Seamus (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
Grimes, Seamus; Miozzo, Marcela (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 ... -
Book review: Human Incumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine
Morrissey, John (SAGE Publications, 2012-11-15)In 1860, the Irish nationalist writer John Mitchell avowed that ‘The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the famine’ (from The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps)). The aphorism quickly became ... -
Causes and consequences of fertility decline
Grimes, Seamus (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 ... -
China's increasing participation in ICT's global value chain: A firm level analysis
Sun, Yutao; Grimes, Seamus (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 ... -
Cnámh na seisce: crapadh na fearúlachta i ndánta Mháirtín Uí Dhireáin
De Paor, Louis (An Sagart, 2014)[No abstract available] -
Comments on marine litter in oceans, seas and beaches: Characteristics and impacts
Anfuso, G.; Lynch, Kevin; Williams, A.T.; Perales, J.A.; Pereira da Silva, J.A.; Nogueira Mendes, R.; Maanan, M.; Pretti, C.; Pranzini, E.; Winter, C.; Verdejo, E.; Ferreira, M.; Veiga, J. (JSciMed Central, 2015-06-11)Abstract Marine litter is observed along shorelines, pelagic, benthic marine and lake systems all around the globe. On beaches, litter creates aesthetic and related economic problems because a clean beach is one of the ... -
Consideration of coastal risk in the Irish spatial planning process
Flannery, Wesley; Lynch, Kevin; Ó Cinnéide, Micheál (Elsevier, 2014-11-29)The vulnerability of coastal areas to associated hazards is increasing due to population growth, development pressure and climate change. It is incumbent on coastal governance regimes to address the vulnerability of coastal ... -
Cost competitive places: shifting fortunes and the closure of Dell's manufacturing facility in Ireland
Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (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 ... -
The distribution of economic well-being within the Northwest region
Grimes, Seamus (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 ... -
Dynamics of sediment storage and release on aeolian dune slip faces: A field study in Jericoacoara, Brazil
Farrell, Eugene (Journal of Geophysical Research, 2015-09-25)Sediment transport on the lee sides of aeolian dunes involves a combination of grain-fall deposition on the upper portion of the slip face until a critical angle is exceeded, transport of a portion of those sediments down ... -
Economic well-being in the Ballymote rural area: myth and reality
Grimes, Seamus; O'Donohue, Brendan (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1996)Despite the many negative indicators such as falling population and high emigration which are characteristic of the Northwest, the town of Ballymote appears to be booming. In explaining this apparent contradiction, ... -
The emerging dynamic structure of national innovation studies: a bibliometric analysis
Sun, Yutao; Grimes, Seamus (Springer Verlag, 2016-10-26)The state is still the significant unit for innovative studies during the age of R&D globalization and innovation regionalization. Using the bibliometric method, this paper attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of ... -
The event of space: geographic allusions in the phenomenological tradition
Strohmayer, Ulf (SAGE Publications, 1998-02)n this essay I analyse the role of space in key texts belonging to the tradition of phenomenology. Starting from the assumption that phenomenology is uniquely positioned to answer the epistemological challenges posed by ... -
Exploiting information and communication technologies for rural development
Grimes, Seamus (Elsevier, 1992-07)This paper examines how information technology (IT) might be exploited to promote rural development; it also considers how IT impacts on the rural periphery. The appropriate adaptation of this technology for indigenous ... -
The fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport on a sandy beach: a case study from Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland
Lynch, Kevin; Jackson, Derek W. T.; Cooper, J. Andrew G. (Wiley, 2016-04-22)Experiments were conducted on Magilligan Strand, Northern Ireland, to assess the influence of the fetch effect on aeolian sediment transport. During each experiment surface sediments were uniformly dry and unhindered by ...