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Displaying Results 1 - 25 of 1030 on page 1 of 42
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'A Fenian Pastime'?: early Irish board games and their identification with chess
(2010)
HARDING, TIMOTHY DAVID
'A Fenian Pastime'?: early Irish board games and their identification with chess
(2010)
HARDING, TIMOTHY DAVID
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Twentieth century scholars, critically re-examining Ireland’s origin myths, explained how ‘synthetic pseudo-history’ such as the Lebor Gabála Érenn arose. Sports, like nations, have need of origin myths, chess being no exception; moreover, sporting preferences have sometimes become bound up with a nation’s sense of its unique identity. In the same ancient manuscripts where Celtic revivalists found legends of the earliest people in Ireland, they often also found references to board-games. What may be called the myth of Celtic Chess then emerged. The weak version stated that the pre-Norman Irish played chess; the strong form, more rarely seen, actually claimed a native origin for the game. The myth was especially publicised during the period of re-awakening Gaelic identity from the 1880s to the First World War and persists in some quarters to this day. This article examines the role that chess, and board games of skill that were mistaken for chess, played in Irish cultural nationali...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/38847
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"...it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we get": traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities.
(2006)
Hodgins, Margaret M.; Millar, Michelle; Barry, Margaret M.
"...it's all the same no matter how much fruit or vegetables or fresh air we get": traveller women's perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities.
(2006)
Hodgins, Margaret M.; Millar, Michelle; Barry, Margaret M.
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This paper explores the perceptions of illness causation and health inequalities of Travellers, an ethnic minority group who experience considerable social and health disadvantages in Ireland. In order to allow for subjective meanings to emerge, a qualitative methodology with purposive sampling was employed. Participants in the study were invited to respond to a vignette in a focus group setting. Forty-one Traveller women were recruited to the focus groups through community projects or adult education initiatives. The study not only illustrates the complexity of lay perceptions of ill-health and health inequalities, but raises important questions about the prevalence of depression and of domestic violence in the Travelling community. These Traveller women were very willing to discuss the structural factors that contributed to their health status, attributing ill-health to social and environmental factors, such as accommodation, hardship and discrimination. Further, they broadly reje...
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2329
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"Making work pay" : debates from a gender perspective - the Irish national report
(2004)
Barry, Ursula; Conlon, Catherine; O'Connor, Joan
"Making work pay" : debates from a gender perspective - the Irish national report
(2004)
Barry, Ursula; Conlon, Catherine; O'Connor, Joan
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2060
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“Collaborative production” and the Irish boom: work organisation, partnership and direct involvement in Irish workplaces
(2000)
Roche, William K.; Geary, John F.
“Collaborative production” and the Irish boom: work organisation, partnership and direct involvement in Irish workplaces
(2000)
Roche, William K.; Geary, John F.
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A significant strand of recent social-scientific writing on Ireland has assigned great importance to various forms of “collaborative production”: new forms of work organisation, partnership and direct employee involvement — even suggesting that their growing diffusion might have played a major role in Ireland’s exceptional economic performance during the 1990s. This paper draws on the University College Dublin national workplace survey of employee relations to present an assessment of the degree to which new modes of collaborative production have gained ground in Ireland during the 1990s. While collaborative production is undoubtedly significant in many Irish workplaces, “exclusionary” forms of decision-making are shown to dominate the postures of establishments towards the handling of change. Arguments pointing to the “transformation”, actual or imminent, of work practices and employment relations in Ireland are rejected. Change in Ireland is shown to have much in common with devel...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62651
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“Insufficient for the support of a family”: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine
(2004)
McGregor, Pat
“Insufficient for the support of a family”: wages on the public works during the Great Irish Famine
(2004)
McGregor, Pat
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This paper presents a model of the money wage paid on the public works during the Irish Famine. The administrators are assumed to minimise a cost function that includes the divergence from the target as well as the increase compared to the wage that current information is available on. Estimation reveals a lag of four weeks existed between price changes occurring and adjustment to the money wages. Most seriously, the administrators systematically failed to take full account of the extent of price changes.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60517
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“New” and “old” social risks: life cycle and social class perspectives on social exclusion in Ireland
(2008)
Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand
“New” and “old” social risks: life cycle and social class perspectives on social exclusion in Ireland
(2008)
Whelan, Christopher T.; Maitre, Bertrand
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The life cycle concept has come to have considerable prominence in Irish social policy debate. However, this has occurred without any systematic effort to link its usage to the broader literature relating to the concept. Nor has there been any detailed consideration of how we should set about operationalising the concept. In this paper we argue the need for “macro” life cycle perspectives that have been influenced by recent challenges to the welfare state to be combined with “micro” perspectives focusing on the dynamic and multidimensional nature of social exclusion. We make use of Irish EU-SILC 2005 data in developing a life cycle schema and considering its relationship to a range of indicators of social exclusion. At the European level renewed interest in the life cycle concept is associated with the increasing emphasis on the distinction between “new” and “old” social risks and the notion that the former are more “individualised”. Inequality and poverty rather than being differen...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/60843
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A bird's eye view... resistance in academia
(2009)
O'Connor, Pat
A bird's eye view... resistance in academia
(2009)
O'Connor, Pat
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This article deals with one sociologist's experience of gender inequality in the academy and examines different forms of resistance to it. Here, the author uses the concept of resistance to explore some of the ways faculty women respond to a situation of hierarchical and numerical male dominance. Focusing on faculty women within the hierarchical and numerically male dominated structures of academia, the author identifies seven types of resistance. It also compares the Irish trends as regards the proportion of women in academia to other countries. It is important to stress the methodological limitations of this paper. The author draws on personal observations of the position of faculty women in three of the five academic organisations in which she was employed at various times over the past 30 years (the early 1970s; the 1980s; and the 1990s respectively), initially as research assistant and more recently as professor. It thus can be seen as a personal account: there are 'n...
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/109
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A case study that examines a number of early school leavers who did not continue their education after the Junior Certificate, analysing the causes of early leaving, the steps taken towards prevention and also looks at the impact that has been made by the introduction of departmental programmes to help prevention
(2010)
Conroy, Sharon
A case study that examines a number of early school leavers who did not continue their education after the Junior Certificate, analysing the causes of early leaving, the steps taken towards prevention and also looks at the impact that has been made by the introduction of departmental programmes to help prevention
(2010)
Conroy, Sharon
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The purpose of this case study was to investigate if early school leaving is still a problem in Ireland, and if so, what are the reasons for it and also what is being done to try and prevent the problem. The study focused on three research issues as follows: 1. Is early school leaving still a problem today as it was 10-15 years ago? 2. What are the reasons and causes identified that encourage students to leave school early? 3. What government policies are in place to help deal with the problem of early school leaving? To measure the degree of the problem of early school leaving in Ireland, this case study adopted a mixed method research methodology. Interviews and Surveys were used to collect both qualitative and quantitative data for the study. The early school leavers interviewed, were encouraged to express their true feelings and attitudes towards the problem of leaving early and the reasons which lead them to the decision to leave before completing their education. The study sug...
http://hdl.handle.net/10344/468
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A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
(2003)
Ruane, Joseph; Todd, Jennifer
A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
(2003)
Ruane, Joseph; Todd, Jennifer
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2444
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A code of practice for grocery goods undertakings and an Ombudsman: how to do a lot of harm by trying to do a little good
(2009)
Gorecki, Paul K.
A code of practice for grocery goods undertakings and an Ombudsman: how to do a lot of harm by trying to do a little good
(2009)
Gorecki, Paul K.
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The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment in its August 2009 Consultation Paper, Code of Practice for Grocery Goods Undertakings, argues that a Code governing grocery supplier/retailer relations, enforced by an Ombudsman, should be introduced. The Code constrains the behaviour of the retailer with respect to certain practices that, for example, shift risk from the retailer to the supplier as well as those that result in unexpected costs to suppliers. The rationale for the Code appears to be that due to the devaluation of sterling, combined with the recession, retailers are able to put increased pressure on local suppliers for lower prices, which in turn squeezes suppliers’ margins. The paper argues that the Consultation Paper does not present a sound rationale for the Code, in reality the Code is a form of protectionism occasioned by the inflow of lower priced imports. Local suppliers should adapt through developing better products and becoming more efficient, rather than s...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58796
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A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(2000)
Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
A comparative perspective on trends in income inequality in Ireland
(2000)
Nolan, Brian; Maitre, Bertrand
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Both overall income inequality and inequality in the distribution of earnings rose sharply during the 1980s and 1990s in a number of industrialised countries, notably the UK and the USA. This makes it particularly important to know how the distribution of income in Ireland has been changing over time, how it compares with other countries, and what factors contribute to explaining Ireland’s particular experience. This paper addresses these issues with household survey data allowing us to provide a picture of the distribution of household income in Ireland up to 1997. This allows us to assess for the first time how inequality has been changing during Ireland’s boom. Comparisons are also made with recent estimates for other countries, notably from the European Community Household Panel, so that both Ireland’s current distribution and trends over time can be placed in comparative perspective. A decomposition analysis of changes over time is implemented, and trends in the distribution of...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/62087
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A Comparative Study of Organisational Commitment of Bank Employees in Ireland and China
(2009)
Chen, Helen
A Comparative Study of Organisational Commitment of Bank Employees in Ireland and China
(2009)
Chen, Helen
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<p>Organisational commitment has been extensively researched in the Western and non-Western contexts. However, little has been conducted to approach it from a cross-cultural perspective. This paper sets out to fill in the gap by examining bank employees’ organisational commitment in Ireland and China. Data was collected in two American banks, one in Ireland and the other one in China in June 2008. Research results showed interesting and dynamic differences of the three dimensions of the Irish and Chinese bank employees’ organisational commitment with regards to the effects of income, gender and tenure. Implications for managers in Ireland and China are discussed.</p>
http://arrow.dit.ie/buschmarcon/55
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A Comparative Study of Organisational Commitment of Bank Employees in Ireland and China
(2009)
Chen, Helen
A Comparative Study of Organisational Commitment of Bank Employees in Ireland and China
(2009)
Chen, Helen
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<p>Organizational commitment is a complicated concept. However it is primarily regarded as an attitudinal construct dealing with the perceived utility of continued participation in the employing organization (Hrebriniak & Alutto, 1972). In a similar vein, it has also been described, according to Buchanan, (1974), as a partisan, affective attachment to the goals and values of an organization, to one’s role in relation to goals and values of an organization, and to the organization for its own sake; or according to Porter et al. (1974), as a strong belief in and acceptance of the organization’s goals and values, a willingness to exert considerable effort into the organization, and a definite desire to maintain such employment relationship.</p>
http://arrow.dit.ie/buschmarcon/57
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A Comparison of Studies Conducted in Wales and Ireland on Issues Affecting Uptake of Micro-Generation Training
(2009)
Harrison, Alan E; Irvine, SJC; O’Farrell, K; Stafford, A; Woolmington, T
A Comparison of Studies Conducted in Wales and Ireland on Issues Affecting Uptake of Micro-Generation Training
(2009)
Harrison, Alan E; Irvine, SJC; O’Farrell, K; Stafford, A; Woolmington, T
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<p>In 2007 Irvine and Stafford [1] surveyed the attitude to the need for enhanced renewable education within groups of Electricians, Architects and Chemists in Wales. Similar groups were surveyed in Ireland in 2008. In comparing the attitudes of students in these two countries the principal differences are governmental support for microgeneration, the quantity of installed microgeneration and the year of the survey. The two countries are broadly similar in terms of geography, climate, population size, ethnicity, broadcast media, educational achievements, economy and income spread.</p> <p>In Ireland there is greater support for governmental intervention and for increased levels of installation. This could be a reaction to the very low level of activity that prevails in Ireland. The rapid changes during 2008 in economic outlook and in Climate Change consensus may have impacted on the responses. In many areas addressed in the survey the disciplines adopted a consensus...
http://arrow.dit.ie/engscheleart/175
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A comparison of the economic position and trend in Éire and Northern Ireland
(1947)
Ó Nualláin, Labhrás
A comparison of the economic position and trend in Éire and Northern Ireland
(1947)
Ó Nualláin, Labhrás
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This paper is an abridged version of a thesis presented for the degree of M.Econ.Sc, in the National University of Ireland. In its statistical design the paper consists principally of a comparison of the figures which Dr. J. P. Beddy prepared for the Twenty-Six Counties for his paper " A Comparison of the Principal Economic Features of Éire and Denmark " (read in November, 1943), with figures for the Six Counties. A number of interesting and little known facts emerge from a study of the economic conditions obtaining in each area, the main results of which have been summarised in this paper. For obvious reasons, the abnormal conditions of war-time have been ignored and attention has, for the most part, been directed to the period 1924 - 1938/39.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/5442
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A demonstration of wireless sensing for long-term monitoring of water quality
(2009)
Regan, Fiona; Lawlor, Antoin; O'Flynn, Brendan; Torres, J; Martínez-Català, Rafael...
A demonstration of wireless sensing for long-term monitoring of water quality
(2009)
Regan, Fiona; Lawlor, Antoin; O'Flynn, Brendan; Torres, J; Martínez-Català, Rafael V.; Ó Mathúna, S. Cian; Wallace, John
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Science Foundation Ireland (CSET - Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology 07/CE/I1147); Environmental Protection Agency (NDP); Marine Institute (NDP)
At a time when technological advances are providing new sensor capabilities, novel network capabilities, long-range communications technologies and data interpreting and delivery formats via the World Wide Web, we never before had such opportunities to sense and analyse the environment around us. However, the challenges exist. While measurement and detection of environmental pollutants can be successful under laboratory-controlled conditions, continuous in-situ monitoring remains one of the most challenging aspects of environmental sensing. This paper describes the development and test of a multi-sensor heterogeneous real-time water monitoring system. A multi-sensor system was deployed in the River Lee, County Cork, Ireland to monitor water quality parameters such as pH, temperature, conductivity, turbidity and dissolved ...
http://hdl.handle.net/10468/180
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A discussion of international, national, discipline and institution contextual factors that impact on the design /redesign of a Post Graduate Social Work Programme in Ireland
(2009)
O'Brien, Valerie
A discussion of international, national, discipline and institution contextual factors that impact on the design /redesign of a Post Graduate Social Work Programme in Ireland
(2009)
O'Brien, Valerie
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The purpose of the paper is to examine what international, national and institutional influences need to be considered in appraising the need and design of a post-qualifying training in therapeutic or counselling social work. It is my view that such a programme could augment both the existing social work counselling skill base and could provide a mechanism whereby social workers identity and work opportunities in the therapeutic and counselling roles would be enhanced. This paper will examine the feasibility of the programme and the issues/ influences that need to be considered in the design of the curriculum.
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3013
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A Doctoral Thesis Examining Change in a HEI in Ireland: Changing Universities and the Response of Academics to Change in the Dublin Institute of Technology
(2010)
Kelly, Kevin
A Doctoral Thesis Examining Change in a HEI in Ireland: Changing Universities and the Response of Academics to Change in the Dublin Institute of Technology
(2010)
Kelly, Kevin
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<p>This is doctoral thesis undertaken by an experienced academic in the Engineering Faculty of a Higher Education Institute in Ireland. It examines the demand for universities to change in response to a fast changing external environment. This research explores how stakeholders are responding to the demands for change and how a bureaucratic organisation is attempting to become more responsive and innovative.</p>
http://arrow.dit.ie/engschelebk/7
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A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: evidence from Ireland
(2008)
Newman, Carol; Delaney, Liam; Nolan, Brian
A dynamic model of the relationship between income and financial satisfaction: evidence from Ireland
(2008)
Newman, Carol; Delaney, Liam; Nolan, Brian
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The link between income and subjective satisfaction with one’s financial situation is explored in this paper using a panel analysis of 1,998 individuals tracked through the course of the boom period in Ireland, 1994-2001. A dynamic ordered probit model which incorporates state dependence and controls for correlated individual effects and the initial conditions problem is applied. The impact of the level of household income, the time-path of income and deviations of individual income from reference group income and household income are all considered. To the extent that income influences financial satisfaction, there is strong evidence from this paper that the level of household income has the most important effect but this effect is lessened once persistence in the data is controlled for and is diminishing at higher income levels. Controlling for income and socio-economic characteristics, the positive deviations of household income from reference group income are found to have a pos...
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/58932
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A gender perspective on Ireland's employment policies
(2007)
Barry, Ursula
A gender perspective on Ireland's employment policies
(2007)
Barry, Ursula
http://hdl.handle.net/10197/2036
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A Geographer's View of the 2009 Local Elections
(2009)
Kavanagh, Adrian
A Geographer's View of the 2009 Local Elections
(2009)
Kavanagh, Adrian
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Abstract included in text.
http://eprints.nuim.ie/2966/
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A Green Agenda for the Irish Renewable Energy Sector
(2010)
Das, Satyasiba; Best, Michael H.; Ryan, Paul
A Green Agenda for the Irish Renewable Energy Sector
(2010)
Das, Satyasiba; Best, Michael H.; Ryan, Paul
http://hdl.handle.net/10379/2458
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A letter from William B. Brownrigg to Thomas H. Huxley, dated 29 November 1865, authorising him to describe his fossil vertebrates from Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny and giving details of his find
(2011)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL
A letter from William B. Brownrigg to Thomas H. Huxley, dated 29 November 1865, authorising him to describe his fossil vertebrates from Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny and giving details of his find
(2011)
DE ARCE, MIGUEL
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William Bookey Brownrigg, who discovered the Upper Carboniferous (Pennsylvanian) vertebrate fossils at Jarrow Colliery, Co. Kilkenny in 1864, published a short paper on the material. Shortly afterwards E.P. Wright, a zoologist from Trinity College Dublin, contacted Thomas Henry Huxley with a view to publishing a full description of the material. In November 1865 Huxley wrote to Brownrigg about his involvement and in his reply Brownrigg agreed to Huxley describing the material. Ultimately, when it came to the publication of the fossil fauna, Brownrigg was side-lined. Brownrigg’s letter to Huxley is transcribed here.
http://hdl.handle.net/2262/61057
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A mapping of entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Ireland.
(2008)
Cooney, Thomas M.
A mapping of entrepreneurship and innovation policy in Ireland.
(2008)
Cooney, Thomas M.
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The objective at the centre of the IPREG (Innovative Policy Research for Economic Growth) project is the facilitation of a " network of networks" needed to address one of Europe's critical issues-empirically relevant research on growth policy. IPREG is an established "network of networks" encompassing researchers, policy makers and business people in twelve countries: Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK. The initial stage of the project was to map out the current policies and actors in each country and to develop a comprehensiveness index based upon interviews and survey feedback. This work would then facilitate the diverse debates that occur regarding the production and evaluation of research on policy and policy making in different contexts within Europe. It was envisaged that the scientific impact of the project actions would be the construction of a tanglible knowledge base on the size...
http://arrow.dit.ie/imerep/3
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A mapping of ethnic entrepreneurship in Ireland
(2008)
Cooney, Thomas M; Flynn, Anthony
A mapping of ethnic entrepreneurship in Ireland
(2008)
Cooney, Thomas M; Flynn, Anthony
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The research findings presented in this report represent the first major attempt to map in a systematic fashion ethnic entrepreneurial activity in Ireland. The rapid transformation of the demographic profile of Ireland in this decade through unprecedented levels of immigration has stimulated debate on the economic and social policy implications of the new multi-racial Ireland. One facet to this policy debate is the potential for non-Irish nationals to bolster indigenous business activity. It was the aim of this research to capture the essential nature of ethnic entrepreneurship in Ireland in 2008 with a view to better informing policy formulation as it concerns ethnic business activity. Two research objectives dictated the scope of this study. The first objective was to determine the rate of business ownership among the main foreign national ethnic groups in Ireland. From a nationwide survey of 1,108 foreign nationals resident in Ireland it was found that 12.6% claim ownership or pa...
http://arrow.dit.ie/imerep/1
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