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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Donegal"”.
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Why Donegal Slept: The Development of Gaelic Games in Donegal, 1884-1934
The development of sport in Donegal, a peripheral Irish county which was rather isolated from the more centralised areas of the British sporting 'revolution', has attracted only limited academic attention.This thesis will examine the origins and development of the GAA in Donegal between 1884 and …
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Women in Education in North-West Donegal
… in the Irish-speaking parishes of north-west Donegal, 1831-1960. It analyses the agents of change during the period including teachers, parents and students, clergymen and nuns as well as the various commercial, administrative and governmental agents who facilitated the entry of women into the …
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The Gaelic dialect of Urris, Inishowen, Co. Donegal
… an extremely interesting transition zone between Donegal Irish and East Ulster Irish (see Wagner, loc. cit.), I determined to return to the district for a short period to carry out a systematic examination of these last-remaining speakers of Inishowen Irish. Later that summer I returned to Urris …
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Development, local politics and the "new Europe" in County Donegal : an ethnographic study
… upon ethnographic research conducted in County Donegal, the most northerly county in the Republic of Ireland, between January 1997 and January 1998. It is focused upon three "development communities" in the county: development professionals, voluntary activists working for area based community …
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Handcrafting a national industry : the production and patronage of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets
… a social history of Alexander Morton & Company's Donegal carpets--their production and patronage. These nineteenth-century carpets were promoted as artistic products and appealed to upper- and middle-class consumers in Britain, Ireland, North America, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. The …
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Moving Image, Montage and Memory: The development of a critical documentary practice, exploring Irish identity through an exploration into found film archives and the cinematic treatment of time and memory
… of Inishbofin off the North West coast of Co. Donegal in Ireland. The film’s usefulness lies in its portrayal of a small, indigenous, fragile community that clings to existence and its strength lies in giving voice to this minority in an attempt to correct perceptions of Irishness. This thesis …
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The lost tribe: case studies of Southern Unionist experiences in post partition Ireland
… through certain case stories, from the 1934 East Donegal Unionist petition for the Laggan to be part of Northern Ireland to the Reform Movement in 1998 that continues to campaign for the Republic of Ireland’s membership of the Commonwealth. Using feedback gathered by interviews from contemporary …
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Bioeconomy: Regional Innovation Ecosystem (West Ireland)
… Ireland that consist of nine counties- Clare, Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Leitrim, Limerick, Mayo, Roscommon and Sligo for developing Regional Innovation Ecosystem focused on Bioeconomy for land and sea. This thesis has explored the mechanisms of Interactions that can contribute towards active …
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The Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway 1903-47: Its social context and environment
… Bunaman, in the parish of Annagry in northwest Donegal. My birth came one year after the closure of the Gweedore to Burtonport section of the Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway which was visible from my home, so that I never had the joy of seeing a train passing by. During the years of …
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Developing a cost-effective monitoring strategy for coastal cetaceans
… Irish Sea and off the north coast of County Donegal, varied across seasons consistently, peaking in winter, while fine scale variations across time of day and tide were found to be site-specific. Further fine-scale spatio-temporal trends (< 5 km) were identified within the Skerries and …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
… schemes. The first two schemes, in Counties Donegal and Antrim, are described in detail. Acts of parliament passed in 1924 and 1925 made County Councils the library authorities in Northern Ireland and the Irish Free State. This encouraged the Carnegie trustees to change their library policy, …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… with facial reconstructions from Dooey, Co. Donegal and Owenbristy, Co. Galway. Building upon the past concepts, the late medieval period is associated with the notion of alterity and paired with faces from Ballinderry, Co. Kildare and a sample of males from Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly. The …