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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Rural ireland"”.
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Exposing the Myth of a Drug Free Rural Ireland
It can be said without hesitation that drugs are currently an established feature of modem Irish society. In the past, many believed them to be solely an urban phenomenon but nowadays, they extend their reach on all areas, even the most mral parts of this island. This dissertation sets out to prove …
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Brightening the Countryside - The Library Service in Rural Ireland, 1902 - 1935.
The thesis traces the development of the rural library service in Ireland between 1902 and 1935, with particular reference to the part played by Andrew Carnegie and the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, which he established in 1913, in that development. The first chapters explore the nineteenth …
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A portrait of the Arts Centre in rural Ireland: an inter-disciplinary mix-methods approach
… in small Irish towns, and a social hub for rural societies. In order to make an assessment I drew on theory and expertise from across the humanities and the social sciences. My study makes some amendment for the lack of research in the area and counters some of the difficulties in …
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The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
… Most Irish immigrants were Roman Catholic from rural Ireland and possessed limited skills, other than their willingness to perform manual labor. Kansas City was a second or third stop in the United States for most Irish immigrants, having entered through New York, Boston, Philadelphia, New …
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The Growth and Development of Sport in Co. Tipperary, 1840-1880
… in Great Britain also became evident in Ireland, and by extension, Tipperary. The thesis demonstrates the emergence of these sports at a micro-level in Tipperary and the qualitative research is indicative of the trends by which they became apparent. The degree to which horse racing and …
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The agricultural labourer and the state in Independent Ireland, 1922-76
… act of 1881 initiated the process of vesting Ireland’s greatest natural resource in a single class, the legacy of peasant proprietorship for Irish social and economic development has been the subject of much debate and comment. Few, however, have considered its implications for the other group …
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St. Colman's: a Case Study in Teachers' Perspectives: History Teachers in Context
… Colman’s, a large voluntary secondary school in rural Ireland. It investigates History teachers as a group of subject teachers within this context. ‘Perspectives’ are located within the interpretive sociology of symbolic interactionism. The study integrates historical, micropolitical, …
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The Phoenix Effect - Rising from Crisis through Digital Collaboration: How Crisis affects Social Enterprises’ Digitalization for Value Co-Creation
Relevance of social entrepreneurs in rural destination development is also important. It is hard for rural regions to sustain communities and attract tourists. Thus, it is often social businesses that are involved in developing innovative and creative ideas, products and services. Mottiar, Boluk, …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… loom large in the earliest accounts of Ireland and Irishness that come down to us. In colonial Ireland, unregulated wakes and funerary traditions endured in spite of legal and ecclesiastical attempts to police death’s meaning according to the interests of the dominant power structure. By …
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'Scéal to Storia': creating a framework for cultural heritage education, outreach learning methodologies and international exchange in primary schools
… childhood growing up in London, to one based in rural Ireland. For instance, regardless of financial status, educational opportunities can vary widely based simply on geographic circumstances. Following some initial reading in public history and outreach programmes, it became clear just how …
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The country girls trilogy: la formulación del bildungsroman femenino en Irlanda
Esta tesis se basa en el analisis literario de The Country Girls Trilogy, obra que la irlandesa Edna O'Brien publicó en 1987. Para su estudio y comprension ha sido necesaria abordar, en primer lugar, la historia de la mujer irlandesa y los conceptos de Motherhood, Mother Land y Mother Church a los …
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Primary and secondary emissions from upland fires in Ireland
… in upland areas, data on wildfire emissions in Ireland is scarce. This work was conducted as part of FLARES (Fire, Land and Atmospheric Remote Sensing of EmissionS), a project funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to improve the understanding of Irish upland fire emissions. …