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Displaying Results 626 - 638 of 638 on page 26 of 26
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Who Do We Think We Are? Immigration and the Discursive Construction of National Identity in an Irish Daily Mainstream Newspaper, 1996-2004
(2006)
Conway, Brian
Who Do We Think We Are? Immigration and the Discursive Construction of National Identity in an Irish Daily Mainstream Newspaper, 1996-2004
(2006)
Conway, Brian
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This paper examines how Irish national identity has been constructed in recent press discourse against a background of demographic, social and economic change brought about by immigration. Using the Irish Times as our source of data, we analysed opinion and editorial pieces from 1996-2004. One would expect, given Ireland's own emigration experience, its history of participation in imperial projects, and its treatment of indigeous minorities, that it would adopt an exclusive ethnic response to the presence of the migrant. We find, however, that two key cultural resources - the historical duty argument and the myth of Saint Patrick - are mobilised in press discourse to make sense of immigration and that these local narratives are employed to motivate inclusive political and social action in response to this global phenomenon. This counterintuitive finding is explained in terms of a global cultural argument that emphasizes the critical influence of international image in shaping h...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/751/
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Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England
(2019)
O'Sullivan, Katriona; Byrne, Delma; Robson, James; Wonters, Niall
Who Goes to College via Access Routes? A Comparative Study of Widening Participation Admission in Selective Universities in Ireland and England
(2019)
O'Sullivan, Katriona; Byrne, Delma; Robson, James; Wonters, Niall
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This article explores changing national widening participation (WP) policy and responses from Higher Education institutions (HEIs) from a cross-national perspective. Specifically, the use of contextualised admissions and the provision of foundation year programmes in selective universities in Ireland and England are the key foci of interest. Using data gathered from WP students in two selective universities in Ireland and England, we explore how student characteristics differ according to the WP route undertaken. In an attempt to generate more knowledge of how HEIs enact WP policy, we draw on interviews conducted with staff involved in admission decision-making to explore how those with responsibility for admission within each institutional context perceive the WP pathways and their aims. The findings highlight how important it is for selective universities to adopt multiple WP pathways given that the use of contextualised admission and the provision of foundation years attract quit...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/10418/
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Wind/hydrogen hybrid systems: opportunity for Ireland’s wind resource to provide consistent sustainable energy supply
(2010)
Carton, James; Olabi, Abdul-Ghani
Wind/hydrogen hybrid systems: opportunity for Ireland’s wind resource to provide consistent sustainable energy supply
(2010)
Carton, James; Olabi, Abdul-Ghani
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Ireland with its resource of wind has the potential to use this natural resource and sustain the country’s power needs for the future. However, one of the biggest drawbacks to renewable energy generation, particularly wind generated electricity is that it is an intermittent and a variable source of power. Even at the "best" sites wind varies dramatically from hour to hour and minute to minute. This leads to two main problems: 1) When the wind drops below a lower limit or goes above a higher limit the turbine can shut down and electricity is not produced. 2) Energy is not stored when there is an excess of electricity generated on site. Because of these problems wind power has a very low capacity credit and backup power is needed to handle the large fluctuation of production. This paper introduces the energy system of Ireland and the targets that Irish operators are to achieve in the next decade. A review of energy storage options for Ireland is outlined including the use o...
http://doras.dcu.ie/19776/
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Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Ireland
(1994)
McLoughlin, Dympna
Women and Sexuality in Nineteenth Century Ireland
(1994)
McLoughlin, Dympna
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As in Europe generally, there was a spectacular range of sexual relationships in 19th century Ireland, thus challenging the stereotype of a country of exceptional chastity and prudery. Economic factors played a pivotal role in Irish women’s sexual expression. Women of property had to be very circumspect in their behaviour. Women of different classes and circumstances could behave differently in entering short- or long-term liaisons, with men of their own or indeed higher social class. These women essentially drew up their own sexual contracts. However, by the late 19th century, there was less and less tolerance of sexual diversity and of women initiating their own destiny. This period (1880s +) witnessed the triumph of respectability. Henceforth, there was only one acceptable life path for normal women – marriage and motherhood – and a diminishing tolerance for any type of sexual diversity.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3536/
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Women in combat: The status and roles assigned female personnel in the permanent defence forces.
(2000)
Clonan, Thomas Martin
Women in combat: The status and roles assigned female personnel in the permanent defence forces.
(2000)
Clonan, Thomas Martin
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The aim of the PhD study is to examine critically the integration of female personnel within the Permanent Defence Forces (PDF). Their integration is examined in light of the deployment of women in the international military, and in light of a liberal-feminist examination of the workplace in terms of its equality of opportunity agenda. It is argued that the sex-role stereotyping used to recruit young men in to the military in the past along with socio-biological theories of women’s and men’s appropriate spheres of activity have combined to disempower women within military culture, i.e; women’s involvement represents a threat to the constructed masculinity the military embodies. Despite the persistence of patriarchal culture within the sphere of the military, there has been an unprecedented growth in the numbers of women within the military in the west due to the demands of modem total and technological warfare. Military planners are recruiting women not for reasons of equality of o...
http://doras.dcu.ie/20979/
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Women’s Employment and Peripheralisation: the Case of Ireland’s Branch Plant Economy
(1993)
Breathnach, Proinnsias
Women’s Employment and Peripheralisation: the Case of Ireland’s Branch Plant Economy
(1993)
Breathnach, Proinnsias
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The mobilisation of reserves of unskilled women workers played a key role in the new international division of labour which emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. This is illustrated in the case of the branch plant economy which emerged in the Republic of Ireland after 1960. There has been rapid growth in female employment in the electrical engineering sector which is dominated by foreign firms. A case study of the electronics industry reveals strong gender segmentation and a heavy reliance on assembly work carried out mostly by women. High levels of trade union membership have had little impact on the inferior status of women in this industry. Dominance by foreign firms has created very limited employment opportunities for women at local level. The automation of assembly work, allied to plans to upgrade the status of branch plant activities in Ireland, will further restrict women’s employment prospects.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3090/
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Working in a web of relationships: Experiences of selected second-level teachers in Ireland
(2010)
Condren, Dan
Working in a web of relationships: Experiences of selected second-level teachers in Ireland
(2010)
Condren, Dan
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Exploring the interlinking of the personal and professional domains in the work of teaching, the study identified at an early stage that classroom relationships are central in teaching, and that this is basis for the overlap of the personal with the professional. Thus, the research came to focus on the nature of these relationships, and their implications for teachers’ lives and careers. It investigates the experiences in teaching of five second-level teachers in Ireland. It uses a constructivist, broadly narrative approach in which participants actively engaged throughout in constructing both their accounts of their careers and the findings of the study. Their accounts are presented in the thesis in the context of their personal and professional journeys. By exploring the nature of classroom interactions from the teachers’ of point of view, the study brings to light perspectives on the nature of schools, education and teaching which are rarely considered in public debate in Ireland...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/2005/
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Working through a recession
(2011)
Gilmartin, Mary; Migge, Bettina
Working through a recession
(2011)
Gilmartin, Mary; Migge, Bettina
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This paper focuses on the experiences of migrants at work in Ireland during the ongoing recession. It draws on a broader longitudinal qualitative study of two recent migrant cohorts, and challenges dominant understandings of recent migration to Ireland as economic and temporary, showing instead the complex ways in which migrants experience and understand work in their new homes. A general discussion of migrants at work in Ireland is followed by an examination of the impact of neoliberalism on working lives. The impacts of the recession are then discussed in detail, with particular reference to (under)employment and the new limits to migrant mobility that have emerged. The paper concludes with a brief discussion of the importance of this issue, both for understanding working lives and migrant lives.
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3548/
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WorldWise Global Schools: Baseline Research Consultancy
(2013)
Rickard, Angela; Grummell, Bernie; Doggett, Brendan
WorldWise Global Schools: Baseline Research Consultancy
(2013)
Rickard, Angela; Grummell, Bernie; Doggett, Brendan
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This report documents research conducted with principals and deputy principals of Irish Post-Primary schools and NGOs in Spring 2013 to explore the experiences and opinions about development education from the perspective of schools. We map the current development education activities and networks evident in the participating Irish post-primary schools and identify the key obstacles, opportunities and supports for development education, before discussing the broader implications for the sector. We highlight how institutional and cultural levels of support are key to ensuring that development education becomes an ‘organic…part of the culture of the school’. Other approaches to development education include an individualised model that tends to dilute power and focus on the commitment of individual teachers and students. The cross-curricular nature of development education poses particular challenges and opportunities in the current structure of the post-primary curriculum, examina...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4435/
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Yes, minister: The impact of decision-making rules on geographically targeted particularistic spending
(2012)
Suiter, Jane; O'Malley, Eoin
Yes, minister: The impact of decision-making rules on geographically targeted particularistic spending
(2012)
Suiter, Jane; O'Malley, Eoin
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This paper tests a number of hypotheses which have been used to explain particularistic political spending. Using constituency level data we can better evaluate the competing merits of theories predicting whether parties reward their voters or target floating or swing voters to maximise the party’s electoral return. We also test the hypothesis that the spending decision-making rule is most important and may determine which of the loyal or marginal voters are targeted, or indeed whether another group might be rewarded. We find that the decision rule is indeed most important, and the unusual level of discretion to ministers in Ireland will determine where these monies go. This finding adds greatly to our theoretical knowledge of geographically targeted spending and is consistent with empirical findings in other countries.
http://doras.dcu.ie/16842/
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Young grandchildren and their grandparents: continuity and change across four birth cohorts
(2013)
Gray, Jane; Geraghty, Ruth; Ralph, David
Young grandchildren and their grandparents: continuity and change across four birth cohorts
(2013)
Gray, Jane; Geraghty, Ruth; Ralph, David
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http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/4416/
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Youth Policy in Ireland and India: a comparative study
(2014)
Motcham, Casimir Raj
Youth Policy in Ireland and India: a comparative study
(2014)
Motcham, Casimir Raj
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Contemporary policy discourse about young people is frequently trapped in the dichotomous paradigm of simplistically portraying them as either ‘a problem’ or a ‘human resource’. This broadly applies both in Europe and in Asia. However, while significant comparative research on youth, youth work and youth policies has been done within Europe, there is very little research which compares the European and Asian contexts, and there is none to date specifically comparing Ireland and India. This thesis explores and compares the youth policies of Ireland and India through the analytical lens of Ian Gough’s (2008) “five I’s”: industrialisation, interests, institutions, ideas and international environment. It examines the major ‘factors and actors’ that have influenced the historical development of youth policies in both countries and situates these in their broader regional contexts. There are many obvious differences between India and Ireland in terms of location, demography, culture(s) an...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/6754/
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Youth work in Ireland – Some historical reflections
(2010)
Devlin, Maurice
Youth work in Ireland – Some historical reflections
(2010)
Devlin, Maurice
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A pervasive theme of the first Blankenberge history workshop and the ensuing publication was the seemingly "perpetual identity crisis" of youth work in many or most parts of Europe (Verschelden et al., 2009). While youth work in Ireland has by no means been free of, or has fully resolved, such a crisis, it is perhaps not surprising given the historical context that Bernard Davies’s comments on the relative clarity of the identity (or at least the identifying features) of British youth work also apply to Ireland: … over the past century and a half in England – and indeed, it could be argued, over the UK generally [all of Ireland was part of the United Kingdom until 1921 and the six northeastern counties still are] – the core features of a way of working with young people have been formulated and refi ned so that, overall, they provide a well-delineated if unfi nished definition of a distinctive practice that we now call "youth work". (Davies, 2009: 63) The definit...
http://eprints.maynoothuniversity.ie/3063/
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