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Showing 1 to 20 of 1541 for “"Cork"”.
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Armstrong Cork
Connection and variety are the quintessential characteristics of successful urban neighborhoods – variety in places to shop, products to buy, income level of residents, and in the interests and activities of the people who populate the sidewalks. Urban variety is not the consequence of population …
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Spray deposition of cork reinforced polyester
… to make consumer or industrial products from a cork reinforced polymer composite, similar to current applications of glass reinforced polyester. The low initial investment and high flexibility of the spray lay-up process make it an attractive candidate to study. A spray lay-up apparatus was …
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Anglo-Irish Music in Cork 1750-1800
… thesis was to examine the musical activity in Cork from 1750-1800, in order to establish a relatively accurate description of what life was really like for the musicians and members of the nobility living in Cork during that time. The primary source of information in the thesis is from the …
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Urban trees and biodiversity in Cork city
… invertebrates, birds, and ground vegetation) in Cork city. There was a total of 102 individual trees studied across 6 Cork city sites, including the UCC arboretum (n=26); Cork city Marina (n=12); the Atlantic Pond (n=17); Kennedy Park (n=11); The Lee Fields (n=18); Fitzgerald’s Park (n=18). A …
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A study on cork-based plastic composite material
… for sandwich panels. Therefore, in this paper, a cork-based plastic composite material has been proposed as a new core material and the possibility for substituting existing core materials have been explored by investigation on its mechanical properties, economic benefit, and environmental impact. …
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An Egyptian mummy and coffin at University College Cork
This thesis is an attempt to establish the relationship between an Egyptian mummy, cartonnage and coffin. To this end, the mummy was x-rayed by conventional means and C.T scanning to discover possible a date and to discover whether there was anything unusual about it from the point of view of …
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'Its inhabitants are a reading people': from Cork city bookshops and voluntary libraries to the Cork Public Library, c.1792–1920
… thesis investigates the local reading culture of Cork city over the long nineteenth century, focusing on bookshops, libraries and reading rooms. It considers the question of the affordability of reading material and the ways it was accessed by the city’s population. It begins by looking at the …
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Social Authority and the Urban Environment in Nineteenth Century Cork
… environmentally constructed. Using the case of Cork, the thesis traces the emergence of a non-sectarian ethos of urban ‘politeness’ rooted in middle-class reactions to the violent upheavals of the 1790s. Here, I argue a range of new public spaces emerged to ‘moralise’ the masses, anticipating …
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The Roman Catholic Communities of Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork, 1700 -1830
… and their clergy from Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork to their changing and often challenging circumstances. A rich repository of source materials such as the visitation books of Roman Catholic Bishops, clerical correspondence and other sources has been relied upon. A scalar analytical framework …
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Starting Ireland on the Road to Industry: Henry Ford in Cork
… and history of Ford production operations in Cork from Henry Ford’s visit in 1912 to the plant’s closure in 1984. Ford’s Cork factory, though originally designed to manufacture tractors in support of Britain’s war-time food needs, did not commence production until mid-1919, by which time the …
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Communicating through Cork: Marcel Proust's Performative Call to Philosophy of Communication
… World War, he retired to the solitude of his cork-lined bedroom and wrote what many consider to be the best novel of the twentieth century. Proust's early works are fits and starts for his philosophy of communication in his magnum opus À la recherche du temps perdu (English: In Search of Lost …
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Cork Harbour Commissioners in the nineteenth century: governance, infrastructure and revenue
Cork, the port and harbour will be examined in terms of its economic history in the 19th century, with emphasis on matters of governance, infrastructure, and finances. This thesis presents an analysis and evaluation of Cork Harbour Commissioners (CHC) from its early beginnings in the 19th century …
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Exploring Cork City's tourist scene: sites, facilities and mobility
… understanding of the tourist scene in Cork city, with a focus on tourist sites, hospitality facilities and mobility. The factors that influence tourists' experiences in the city was examined by a conducting field survey. The spatial pattern and density of tourist sites and hospitality …
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Investigation of cork as filler for fiber-reinforced composite material in kayaks
… in the investigation of ways in which cork can be incorporated into composite material for boats and kayaks without significant performance losses. Fiberglass lay-ups (cloth, mat, and epoxy) and cork-epoxy samples are prepared by vacuum bagging. Samples undergo a three-point bending …
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A social history of sport in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford, c. 1880-1930
… by comparing developments in three counties: Cork, Tipperary and Waterford. In particular this thesis considers the development of rugby and soccer in comparative perspective across these three counties, asking what local factors impacted on their uneven development in the region and …
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The Queen's College, Cork: its origins and early history, 1803-1858
… and early history of the Queen's College, Cork. Designedly there is as much stress on the origins as on the early history, for it is the contention of the work that the College was something more than a legislative mushroom. It was very much in the tradition of the civic universities which …
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Leisure and surveillance in Irish childhoods: A cross-class study of Cork city
… aged between six and ten years, living in Cork city. This study focuses on the cultural dispositions underpinning parental decisions in relation to children’s leisure activities, with a particular emphasis on their child-surveillance practices. In this research, child-surveillance is …
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Religion in the life of the young adult at University College Cork : an investigation
… life of the young adult at University College Cork (UCC). It aims to ensure that pastoral ministry is based, not on guesses and assumptions, but on ascertained facts. The study is underpinned by historical, theological, psychological and sociological factors. It traces the provisions made for …
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Press, politics and revolution: newspapers and journalism in Cork city and county, 1910-23
… role in shaping/reflecting public opinion. In Cork, the battle for ‘hearts and minds’ was waged by Skibbereen's Southern Star and Skibbereen Eagle, and Cork city institutions, the Cork Examiner and Cork Constitution, along with the Cork Free Press. Notable but fleeting contributions also came …
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Participation by place-based community organisations in local development: case studies from East Cork
… other actors in development processes in East Cork. It focuses upon place-based community organisations, who seek to represent the interests of their particular localities. A case study approach is employed to explore the realpolitik of local development and to gauge the extent to which …
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