Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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FISHING FOR SURVIVAL IN THE ?BLUE ECONOMY?? FOUND POEMS FROM THE IRISH ISLANDS
(ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies., 2022)Almost three thousand islanders live on eighteen islands off the west coast of Ireland. These islands are not connected to the mainland by a land causeway. While many of these islands are dependent on a small-scale fishing ... -
Flirting with Space: Journeys and Creativity
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Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas
(2022)Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ... -
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
(2020)Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ... -
The foundation and development of Na Fianna Eireann, 1909 - 16
(2008)This article examines the establishment and development of Na Fianna Eireann, or the Irish National Boy Scouts, in the period 1909?16. It also assesses the contributions of the organisation?s two founders, Countess ... -
A Fourteenth-Century Scholastic Dispute on Astrological Interrogations
(2021)This article examines and edits an anonymous text from the late 1330s (Quesitum fuit utrum per interrogationes …), which was written to refute the arguments presented in a lost quaestio disputata by an unknown Parisian ... -
From protest to participation: Learning from experience in Irish inshore fisheries management
(Springer, 2020)Approximately 86% of Irish fishing vessels, as of 2018, are classified as small-scale or inshore (under 12 m in length). These vessels are predominantly active within Ireland’s territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles) ... -
The future of the oceans past: towards a global marine historical research initiative
(2014)Historical research is playing an increasingly important role in marine sciences. Historical data are also used in policy making and marine resource management, and have helped to address the issue of shifting baselines ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
The Geraldines and Medieval Ireland: The Making of a Myth
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Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky
(2021)This article provides the first discussion of the unpublished treatise De crepusculis (“On twilight”), written in the second half of the thirteenth century by the Dominican scholar Giles of Lessines. It is shown that De ... -
GIS Cartography Map Figures, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 for Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry?s Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes,
(Edinburgh University Press, 2020)Historical and Imagined GIS Borderlandscapes of the American West: Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove Tetralogy and L.A. Noirscapes, Special Issue University Consortium of Geographic Information Science, International Journal ... -
'Government, war and society in English Ireland: a guide to recent work',
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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
(2022)This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn ... -
The Great War and Paramilitarism in Europe, 1917 23
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In this comparative conclusion, the authors consider some of the most influential trends in the historiography of political and paramilitary violence, with particular reference to the relationship between wartime and ... -
Guillaume des Moustiers treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe
(2021)This article is devoted to a thirteenth-century Latin text on how to construct, set up, and use a version of the so-called armillary instrument (instrumentum armillarum), which was first described in Ptolemy’s Almagest as ...