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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"County Cork"”.
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County Cork: the experience of members of the establishment whose houses were burned in the IRA arson campaign, 1920-23
… there were seventy-three houses belonging to the County Cork establishment burnt down by IRA and anti-treaty forces. More houses were destroyed by this method in Cork than in any other Irish county in the same timeframe. The establishment were targeted by the IRA for their political, military and …
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Tile settlement of modernity: A study of the relationship between national polices and local culture and the significance of technology in the transition from community to society on Whiddy Island, Bantry Bay, County Cork, Eire
This thesis is based on an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of Whiddy Island, and focuses on the change from one form of societal organisation to another on this island. The thesis is not an ethnography proper, but an attempt to link the local perceptions of change and the changes in the …
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Absinthe Makes the Heart Grow Darker
… centers around a newly renovated castle hotel in County Cork, Ireland. Newlyweds, Alicia and Greg Silvan discover a bottle of absinthe that is Spanish in origin. Alicia is haunted by the ghost of former owner, Keira O’Shea, as well as the disappearance of her father in hurricane Katrina. Alicia …
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John O'Mahony: Revolutionary and Scholar (1815-1877)
John O’Mahony was bom in 1815 near Mitchelstown, County Cork. After the failure of William Smith O’Brien’s attempted rising in July 1848, O’Mahony led his own insurrection. Afterwards he escaped to France and thence to the United States. In 1858 the Fenian movement was founded with O’Mahony as its …
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Fishing as a way of life: a cultural geography of fishing communities in Castletownbere (Ireland) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany)
… of fishing as a way of life in Castletownbere (County Cork) and Le Guilvinec (Brittany) through relational and reciprocal processes. Drawing on the hermeneutics of both Gadamer and Ricoeur, I argue that pre-understandings are essential to the awareness of ‘Self’ and ‘Other’. This approach fuses …
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The Politics of the Image: Ireland, Landscape and Nineteenth-‐Century Photography
… Henry Craigie Brewster while he was stationed in County Cork as an army officer during the winter and spring of 1842-‐43. They remain the earliest known surviving Irish photographs, produced within a visual regime where the instability of colonial power is manifest in tentative images of …
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Macroom: pastimes (non-sport) and community, after 1900; a history of seven pastimes in a small country Cork town
… study is about my home place Macroom, a small County Cork town, roughly halfway between Cork and Killarney. Because of its central Munster location it has always been strategically important. Macroom Castle dates from the eleventh century and its ownership has marked political control of the …
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Challenges of Transformative Adaptation: Insights from Flood Risk Management
… as examples of adaptation in practice (Clontarf, County Dublin and Skibbereen, County Cork). Employing in-depth qualitative and quantitative research methods, this thesis finds that i) barriers to transformative adaptation do not differ from those associated with incremental adaptation; ii) place …
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Denis Kearney: Sandlot Orator a Chronicle of California
… <p>Hence, the story of Denis Kearney of County Cork, naturalized American, who for three years made life exceedingly lively in the City by the Golden Gate, and who for briefer periods created a flurry throughout the United States. Even after he had passed his heyday he still, at various …
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Dietary patterns for population and planetary health: opportunities and challenges for older adults
… were conducted using data from the Cork and Kerry Diabetes and Heart Disease Study (Phase II – Mitchelstown cohort), which consisted of middle- to older-aged adults recruited from a single primary care centre in Mitchelstown, County Cork, Ireland, between 2010 and 2011. With a …