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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Southern Ireland"”.
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Metallogenesis of Cu deposits in Upper Palaeozoic sedimentary rocks, southern Ireland
Copper has been exploited in SW Ireland for thousands of years. The increased demand for copper world-wide has led to renewed interest in these occurrences and their overall implication for copper metallogenesis in Ireland. This PhD research study focuses on historically mined, mainly vein-hosted …
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Tropospheric aerosol detection over Southern Ireland using a backscatter Raman lidar
… about the typical atmospheric scenarios over Southern Ireland in terms of aerosol load in the lower troposphere, the planetary boundary layer (PBL) height, aerosol optical density (AOD) at 532 nm and lidar ratio values. The arithmetic average of the PBL height was found to be 608 ± 138 m with …
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Earning or learning? : class, culture and identity in contemporary schooling : an ethnography from northern England and southern Ireland
… The current state of educational research in Ireland will also be touched upon, as I introduce the national setting for the comparative element of this study, which forms the location of the school in which I conducted further fieldwork. I also discuss the contemporary relevance of the concept …
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Rates of natural climate change : a study of speleothems
… luminescence intensity in two speleothems from southern Ireland provide high-resolution records of rapid palaeoclimate changes in that region during the Late Glacial. Several of these palaeoclimate proxies appear to be linked. The Younger Dryas (YO) cold event is dated at between 12.5 and 11.4 …
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Land and Popular Politics in County Kerry, 1872-86
… social and economic transformations within Ireland and particularly in Kerry. In 1872 landlordism appeared to have had a hegemonic control over large areas of agrarian and political matters. Local government, parliamentary politics and land ownership were firmly within the control of the …
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The Mesolithic/Neolithic transition in the southern region of Ireland: a Bayesian approach to the integration of the palaeoenvironmental and archaeological records
… transition (c.4500 – 3750 cal BC) in southern Ireland, examining the timing, extent and nature of woodland disturbance, agricultural activity and settlement during the period. This study represents the first explicit use of the Bayesian approach to address these issues and served to …
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Variability in north temperate dung beetle assemblages at different spatial and temporal scales
… and type) to larger spatial scales encompassing southern Ireland. Dung beetle assemblage structure as sampled by dung pad cohort samples and dung baited pitfall trapping were compared. Generally, the rank order of abundance of dung beetle species was significantly correlated between pitfall …
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The human papillomavirus and cancer: a multiphase study investigating preventative behaviours in young males
… participants were recruited from a university in Southern Ireland via a student email system, as well as posting advertisements on numerous health, social and sports websites. Sample: Three hundred and fifty nine male participants aged 18- 28 years completed the online questionnaire. Data …
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Tectonics and sedimentation in the Devonian and carboniferous rocks of SW Devon, England.
… In the Lower to Upper Devonian rocks of the southern zone, slip vectors, vergence and facing of D 1 folds indicate that the transport direction is to the north west. The northern zone, comprising Upper Devonian and lower Carboniferous strata, extends into central Devon and east Cornw~ll and …
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An Ecclesiastical Institution in Medieval Munster: A Study of Emly to c. 1100
This thesis provides a critical history of Emly, a prominent ecclesiastical institution in central Munster purportedly founded by St Ailbe in the fifth or sixth century. While it is a common refrain that Emly was the most important church in early medieval Munster, it has yet to receive a dedicated …