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    • Irish pirate radio 1978-1988: How political stasis allowed unlicensed radio to flourish and innovate 

      Walsh, John; Greene, Brian (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2020-10-12)
      The history of pirate radio in Ireland remains understudied by comparison with other countries with histories of unlicensed broadcasting. This is surprising given the extent and longevity of a large pirate radio scene ...
    • Old names for the River Suck and associated sites 

      Ní Dhonnchadha, Máirín (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 2020)
      This paper examines the evidence indicating that the names Bré and Dubainn Bré (and variants thereof) may be regarded as older, alternative names for the river Suck. It also considers textual references to some other ...
    • Placenames database of Ireland: Bunachar logainmneacha na hÉireann 

      Ó hAisibéil, Liam (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 ...
    • Traditional song in Ireland: living fossil or dynamic resource 

      Ó Laoire, Lillis (Festival 500 Sharing the voices, 1997)
      When I submitted the abstract of this paper, I did not realize that the late Frank Harrison used almost exactly the same title in an 6 Riada memorial lecture at University College Cork, Ireland some years ago (Harrison, ...
    • Trans-formations of gendered identities in Ireland 

      Woods, Jeannine (Palgrave, 2014)
      Since the early 1990s, non-heteronormative masculinities have gained a certain degree of acceptance in Irish society. The years preceding and following the decriminalistaion of homosexuality in 1993 saw an increase in ...