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Showing 1 to 20 of 381 for “"Northern Ireland"”.
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The economics of devolution: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972: evidence from Northern Ireland 1920-1972
… performance, but the historical example of Northern Ireland has been overlooked. Northern Ireland presents a puzzle, as its economic performance persistently lagged the UK and its regions, despite the apparent benefit of possessing fiscal decentralisation. This thesis is divided into three …
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Brexit and the Northern Ireland Constitution
… processes: the steady yet fragile development of Northern Ireland's unique post-1998 constitution; and, the complex, multifaceted and constitutional process of Brexit. The research draws on legal and political theory to develop a novel analytical framework based on systematic definitions of the …
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Rhetoric and victimhood in Northern Ireland
… victimhood as it manifests itself in Northern Ireland. While extensive research has been carried out into the subject, most research in psychology considers victimhood to be a cognitive or perhaps a clinical phenomenon. This thesis proposes that victimhood is fundamentally a rhetorical …
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THE DYNAMICS OF CONFLICT: TRANSFORMING NORTHERN IRELAND
… <p>To answer my questions, I process traced the Northern Ireland conflict from the end of 1983, when Gerry Adams became the president of Sinn Féin and until the signing of the Good Friday Agreement in May 1998. I divided my timeline into 24 cases, ten cases of convergence towards cooperation, …
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Queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland
… investigates queer identity in performance in Northern Ireland, focusing on its socioculturally disruptive agency. Queer theory provides a poststructuralist paradigm that unsettles any binary structures in the analysis of gender and sexuality in social, historical and cultural studies. Its …
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Poverty, social exclusion and the Northern Ireland conflict
… exist between poverty, social exclusion and the Northern Ireland conflict. This subject is approached through a case study focus on the modern day inner-city area of Belfast. The evidence reviewed is quantitative and qualitative, spanning a period from around the 1798 United Irishmen Rebellion to …
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Education rights : lessons for and from Northern Ireland
… area of education law and children’s rights in Northern Ireland since 1998. The research was carried out at Queen’s University, Belfast first while I was a senior lecturer in the School of Law and then, from 2003, as a Reader in Education in the School of Education. The analysis of this body of …
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Policy and practice developments in adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland: a qualitative comparative study between Northern Ireland, Great Britain, and Ireland
… practice developments in adult safeguarding in Northern Ireland, Great Britain, and Ireland. The research objectives included examining the views of key professionals within, and between, the voluntary and statutory sector; and how these views compare between Northern Ireland, Great Britain and …
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The discourse of nationalists in Northern Ireland, 1921-1991
The lack of analytical research on northern nationalism stems from a number of reasons including lack of available sources and shortcomings in the areas of Northern Ireland studies, Nationalism and Ideology<br/>Rejecting a reductionist approach of either the structuralist or culturalist variety, …
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An ethnographic study of football supporters in Northern Ireland
… an ethnographic study of football supporters in Northern Ireland. It focuses on the supporters of Cliftonville Football Club, based in North Belfast.<br/><br/>This thesis examines the relationship of the supporters with the club including the various activities of the supporters in association …
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Accountability: setting the standards for policing in Northern Ireland
… the historical consequences of policing in Northern Ireland (NI), through a comprehensive literature review on police reform and accountability, whilst Section 2 will comprise a contemporaneous case study based on interviews with senior practitioners involved in policing. This thesis will …
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Women's Refuges in Britain and Northern Ireland, 1971-2010
… to establish women’s refuges in Britain and Northern Ireland between 1971, when the first refuge opened in London, and 2010, when the arrival of the coalition government reformulated, once again, the political environment in which they operated. Emerging alongside the Women’s Liberation …
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Anglo-Irish relations and the Northern Ireland problem 1980-1993
… development of Anglo-Irish interaction on the Northern Ireland issue 1980-1993. The thesis examines how and why the policies of the two states changed towards Northern Ireland and towards intergovernmental co-operation. The work seeks to contextualise the intergovernmental approach by …
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The schooling experiences of minority ethnic students in Northern Ireland
… Based upon a qualitative case study of Northern Ireland, and informed by Critical Race Theory, the thesis presents the counter stories of minority ethnic students aged between 12-17 years old living in the region. The findings demonstrate that their experience tends to be one where they …
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The demand for energy in Northern Ireland : a systems approach
… system which generates the demands for fuel in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>The end use demands for fuel can be classified as low temperature heat such as space heating, special such as television, work such as transport and high temperature heat such as welding. These demands result in a demand …
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The Lost Tribe in the Mirror: Playwrights of Northern Ireland
… in the dramatic tradition in the north of Ireland, and chapter two explores his concern for a fractured society in which the playwright needed to play an active, guiding role. Chapter three examines the masterworks of a major twentieth-century Irish dramatist---Stewart Parker's Three Plays …
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Presbyterians, Ulster unionism and the establishment of Northern Ireland 1905-47
… in particular, and on the political life of Ireland and Northern Ireland in general between 1905 and 1947. Its role has been contentious, under-examined and even the nature of the Church has often been misunderstood. <br/><br/>This study uses official Presbyterian publications and other …
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Willingness to pay for eco-labelled forest products in Northern Ireland
Wooded areas provide us with a variety of market and non-market benefits, but rising deforestation, contributed to by pressures on landowners to clear forested areas to use as pasture and arable land, may cause the irrevocable loss of these benefits. To combat this, there is a need to encourage …
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Censorship and propaganda in Northern Ireland during the Second World War
This thesis examines propaganda and censorship in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Press control is an underexplored route through which to investigate Ulster unionism in the mid-twentieth century, as most media studies of Northern Ireland focus on the period of the troubles or …
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