Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "Grimes, Seamus"
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Irelands foreign-owned technology sector: evolving towards sustainability?
Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (Wiley, 2008)For some, Ireland¿s pursuit of an exogenous-led development model has proved to be the cornerstone of recent economic success. Others point to recent high-profile closures and argue that foreign-owned operations are attracted ... -
Low growth, falling competitiveness and high unemployment as Europe approaches the 21st century
Grimes, Seamus (De Gruyter Open, 1994)The European Council, at its meeting in Copenhagen in June 1993, reaffirmed the growth initiatives endorsed in Edinburgh the previous December and at the ECOFIN meeting in April 1993. The conclusions of the European Council ... -
The migration link between Cois Fharraige and Portland, Maine, 1880s to 1920s
Grimes, Seamus; Connolly, Michael (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1989)From the 1880s onwards, the west coast of Ireland — particularly the Congested Districts — formed a major source area of emigration to North America. This paper focuses on part of that outflow from Cois Fharraige. west of ... -
The moral dimension of third world development
Grimes, Seamus (Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 1997)The 1987 Encyclical of Pope John Paul II, Solicitudo Rei Socialis is a most remarkable statement on the problem of development, particularly in relation to the Third World. While following the tradition of the social ... -
Non-agricultural employment in northwestern Ireland: a peripheral region in the 1970s
Grimes, Seamus (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1987)Considerable spatial variation characterized the pattern of return migration and subsequent house construction during the 1970s in the northwest. Ireland's poorest and most peripheral region. Underlying this pattern of ... -
Overview of opportunities offered by Information Society Technologies (IST) for European peripheral areas
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Placing Ireland's transition to a knowledge economy within a global context
White, Mark C.; Grimes, Seamus (Edward Elgar, 2005)Throughout most of the 20th century the Republic of Ireland suffered from persistently high unemployment and chronic emigration and as a result employment creation drove industrial policy. During a period of rapid growth ... -
Reconsidering the exclusion of metaphysics in human geography
Grimes, Seamus (Fabrizio Serra Editore, 1997-05)From its beginning as a systematic branch of knowledge, human geography was strongly influenced by developments in the other branches of the social sciences. Once a predominantly descriptive and ideographic discipline, ... -
The role of telematics in integrating Ireland into Europe's information society
Grimes, Seamus; Collins, Patrick (Taylor & Francis, 2002)This article is an evaluation of Ireland’s participation in the Telematics Applications Programme (TAP), which was part of the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Programme for the period 1994–1998. TAP was primarily ... -
School choice and school catchment: Post‐primary education in Galway city
Grimes, Seamus (Taylor & Francis, 1984)While research to date at the national level has adequately illustrated the nature and extent of class bias in Irish education, there has been little attempt to examine the spatial organisation of the system at the local ... -
Spatio-temporal evolution of urban innovation structure based on zip code geodatabase: An empirical study from Shanghai and Beijing
Duan, Dezhong; Du, Debin; Liu, Chengliang; Grimes, Seamus (Springer Verlag, 2016-11-11)In today's world, the innovation of science and technology has become the key support for improving comprehensive national strength and changing the mode of social production and lifestyle. The country that possesses ... -
The Sydney Irish: a hidden ethnic group
Grimes, Seamus (Geographical Society of Ireland, 1988)The relative position of the Irish immigrant population in Australia has been radically transformed during the present century, from being the largest non-British ethnic group to one of the smallest immigrant minorities. ... -
The transition to internationally traded services in Irelands emergence as a successful European region
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Wireless Valley, Silicon Wadi and Digital Island - Helsinki, Tel Aviv and Dublin and the new economy GPN
Grimes, Seamus (Elsevier, 2004-06)Hyper-capitalism in global information and communication technology (ICT) markets during the late 1990s created a new global production network, shaped by multinational corporations, international capital flows, and a ...