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LaCombe, Michael A. "French wake for an Irish friend." American Journal of Medicine 90, no. 4 (April 1991): 505–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(91)80092-z.
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Lacombe, Michael A. "French wake for an Irish friend." American Journal of Medicine 90, no. 1 (January 1991): 505–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(91)90612-2.
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Cohen, Sheldon S. "Reuben Harvey: Irish Friend of American Freedom." Quaker History 88, no. 1 (1999): 22–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/qkh.1999.0011.
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O'Grady, Thomas. "A Cold Case of Irish Facts: Re(:)visiting John Stanislaus Joyce." James Joyce Quarterly 61, no. 1-2 (September 2023): 15–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2023.a927913.
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ABSTRACT: Will the case that argues for Brian O'Nolan's authorship of "Interview with Mr. John Stanislas [ sic ] Joyce (1849-1931)," published in A James Joyce Yearbook in 1941, ever be fully dismissed? This essay revisits the evidence supporting the claims of O'Nolan's authorship—evidence promulgated and perpetuated by such reputable scholars as John V. Kelleher and Hugh Kenner—as well as the testimony, constituting the counter-argument, from O'Nolan's friend and biographer Anthony Cronin and his friend Niall Sheridan in an attempt to cast reasonable—if not irrefutable—doubt on O'Nolan as the perpetrator of a fraud of significant literary consequence.
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Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey. "An Anglo-Irish Radical in the Late Georgian Metropolis: Peter Finnerty and the Politics of Contempt." Journal of British Studies 53, no. 3 (July 2014): 660–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jbr.2014.55.
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AbstractThis article focuses on the Irish-born metropolitan radical and parliamentary journalist Peter Finnerty, exploring, in particular, the distinctive nature of his political engagement. Chiefly remembered as a friend of William Hazlitt and an implacable opponent of Lord Castlereagh, Finnerty was an influential figure in his own right, who moved between a range of social and political spaces. Framing him as an unrepentant Irish radical, indifferent to the coercive power of authority, this article will examine Finnerty's involvement in a range of scandals, controversies, and causes célèbres, and will highlight the ways in which he succeeded, through enacting a contempt for authority, in subverting both the courtroom and Parliament itself.
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DRISCEOIL, DONAL Ó. "Neither Friend nor Foe? Irish Neutrality in the Second World War." Contemporary European History 15, no. 02 (May 2006): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777306003225.
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HUNT, BRUCE J. "‘Our Friend of Brilliant Ideas’: G. F. Fitzgerald and the Maxwellian Circle." European Review 15, no. 4 (September 18, 2007): 531–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1062798707000518.
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From the late 1870s until his death in 1901, the Irish physicist G. F. Fitzgerald was one of the most active and influential proponents of Maxwell's theory of the electromagnetic field. Along with Oliver Lodge, Oliver Heaviside, Heinrich Hertz, and other ‘Maxwellians’, Fitzgerald took the lead in extending Maxwell's theory, clarifying its expression, and subjecting it to experimental test. The surviving correspondence of this Maxwellian circle provides a window into the workings of late Victorian physics and into the private side of scientific communication.
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Dwyer, Macdara. "Sir Isaac Newton’s enlightened chronologyand inter-denominational discoursein eighteenth-century Ireland." Irish Historical Studies 39, no. 154 (November 2014): 210–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400019064.
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In the advertisement prefacing Charles O’Conor’s Dissertations on the antient history of Ireland (1753), the editor challenged an unnamed gentleman who had, apparently, smeared the good name of the author. The editor, Michael Reily (who went under the cognomen ‘Civicus’) was intricately involved in this dispute from its early stages and did not spare any criticism for the individual he deemed responsible, Dr John Fergus, the erstwhile friend and associate of both Reily and O’Conor. ‘A Gentleman of great Reputation’ alleged Reily, had branded O’Conor with ‘the meanest Species of Immorality’. The dispute did not centre on some esoteric point of Irish mythology or any disagreement over issues of interpretation. It was not even, at least not in any direct way, a rift over political issues regarding the penal laws and the status of papists in the Irish polity, a tendency quite prevalent among the fissiparous Catholic organisations and pugilistic personalities of this period. Rather, it was wholly concerned with those most pertinent aspects of existence for an eighteenth century gentlemen – credit and honour. The disagreement was about Newton’s Chronology and its application to the Irish annalistic corpus as a means of validating the latter – not about the principle of its applicability, nor regarding the minutiae of dates or similar arcana, but to who should gain the credit for appropriating Newton’s prestige to such a particularly Irish topic.
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O’Regan, Mary. "Political Language as a Flexible Friend: Irish Parliamentary Debate on the Iraq War." Irish Political Studies 25, no. 1 (January 22, 2010): 1–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07907180903431913.
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McCarthy, Kate, and Úna Kealy. "Writing from the Margins: Re-framing Teresa Deevy’s Archive and her Correspondence with James Cheasty c.1952–1962." Irish University Review 52, no. 2 (November 2022): 322–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0570.
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This essay explores a unique set of documents, comprising letters and postcards, sent by Teresa Deevy to her friend and fellow Waterford playwright, James Cheasty. To date, Deevy’s correspondence has not been considered separately from her dramatic texts, nor has Cheasty’s work received scholarly attention. Taking a feminist theatre historiographic approach, the essay theorizes the challenges of working with women’s archives, Deevy’s in particular, and conceptualizes the Deevy-Cheasty correspondence as high status research documents that raise Deevy’s archival profile. The thematic analysis of the material focuses on Deevy‘s role as Cheasty’s mentor and illuminates her engagement with Irish theatre practice of the 1950s and 60s. The essay reveals previously unknown aspects of her personal and professional life and contributes new insights relevant to scholars, practitioners, archivists, and students that redirect prevailing narratives concerning Deevy’s ambitions as a playwright and her involvement with Irish theatre practice post 1940.
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McClelland, V. Alan. "Bourne, Norfolk and the Irish Parliamentarians: Roman Catholics and the Education Bill of 1906." Recusant History 23, no. 2 (October 1996): 228–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0034193200002272.
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When Francis, Cardinal Bourne died on New Years Day, 1935, his friend and erstwhile collaborator in successive national congresses, George Anstruther, assistant editor of The Tablet, a paper owned by the archdiocese, referred to Bourne's ‘greatness’ as being unlike that of a waterfall but more akin to a quiet river ‘broad and deep, bearing precious freights to safe havens’. The image was supported in a broadcast of Viscount FitzAlan about the deceased prelate in which he stressed that Bourne possessed a ‘rather cold and calm reserve’ concealing ‘a profound spirituality’. The editor of the Jesuit magazine The Month postulated ‘prudent ecclesiastical statesmanship’ had marked a long term of office of over thirty years and Bourne's regular correspondent, Archbishop Alban Goodier, testified to his having been ‘among the shyest of men, so shy, that to many he remained always hidden in his shell’. Indeed, rarely has a man's memory been tarnished so effectively by his friends, all with the most uplifting of motives. The secular press was less mealy-mouthed. The Times considered Bourne to have been ‘a statesmanlike champion of religious education’ and ‘a courageous opponent of all those modern movements and influences which are calculated, openly or swiftly, to sap the foundations of family life and, indeed, the whole structure of the community’.
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McNally, Dennis G. "Maurice Mason – farmer, plant hunter and friend to the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland." Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture, no. 19 (January 19, 2021): 131–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.24823/sibbaldia.2020.303.
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Maurice Mason is well documented as an accomplished amateur horticulturist and plant collector. His contributions to horticulture were recognised by his guest attendance at the Kew Guild Annual Dinner in 1960 and the award of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Victoria Medal of Honour in the same year. He was generous in sharing his plant collections, and this generosity extended to Ireland. His less well-known contribution to Irish horticulture through the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin is outlined here.
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O’Brien, Wesley, Tara Coppinger, Irene Hogan, Sarahjane Belton, Marie H. Murphy, Cormac Powell, and Catherine Woods. "The Association of Family, Friends, and Teacher Support With Girls’ Sport and Physical Activity on the Island of Ireland." Journal of Physical Activity and Health 18, no. 8 (August 1, 2021): 929–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jpah.2020-0386.
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Background: The current study was the largest physical activity (PA) surveillance assessment of youth undertaken in Ireland in recent years. The purpose of this research was to assess the impact of social support, while controlling for age and screen time, on PA and sport participation, across a representative sample of Irish female youth. Methods: A total of 3503 children (mean age: 13.54 [2.05] y) across the island of Ireland participated. Participants completed a previously validated electronic questionnaire while supervised in a classroom setting, which investigated their (1) levels of PA; (2) screen time; (3) community sport participation; and (4) social support (friend, family, and teacher) to be physically active/partake in sport. Results: There were significant differences, with medium and large effect sizes, for social support from friends and family across types of sports participation. Specifically, girls who participated in the most popular team sports, when compared with the most popular individual sports, reported higher social support scores for friends and family structures. Conclusions: Findings from this study confirm the contributing influence of friends and family as sport and PA support networks for girls. Interventions should consider the importance of culturally relevant team sports for PA engagement in female youth.
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Canning, Ruth A. "James Fitzpiers Fitzgerald, Captain Thomas Lee, and the problem of ‘secret traitors’: conflicted loyalties during the Nine Years’ War, 1594-1603." Irish Historical Studies 39, no. 156 (November 2015): 573–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2015.25.
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AbstractExisting evidence pertaining to Ireland’s Nine Years’ War (1594–1603) strongly lends itself to the impression that the majority of Old English Palesmen, at least those of higher social status, chose to support the English crown during this conflict rather than their co-religionist Gaelic Irish countrymen. Loyalties, however, were anything but straightforward and could depend on any number of cultural values, social concerns, and economic incentives. Nevertheless, James Fitzpiers Fitzgerald, a ‘Bastard Geraldine’ who served as sheriff of Kildare, seemed to have been driven by a genuine sense of duty to the English crown and establishment. With the outbreak of hostilities in the 1590s, Fitzpiers proved to be a devout crown servitor, risking life and limb to confront the English queen’s Irish enemies. But, in late 1598 he suddenly, and somewhat inexplicably, threw his lot in with the Irish confederacy, defying the government he had once championed. During the ensuing investigation, the Dublin administration accumulated much damning evidence against Fitzpiers, including a patriotic plea from rebel leader Hugh O’Neill which urged Fitzpiers to defend his Irish homeland from the oppressions of English Protestant rule. Yet, at the very same time, a counter case was made by Fitzpiers’s controversial English friend, Captain Thomas Lee, which argued that Fitzpiers’s actions were more loyal than anyone could have imagined. Through an examination of Fitzpiers’s perplexing case, this paper will explore the complicated nature of allegiances in 1590s Ireland and how loyalties were not always what they seemed.
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Bondaruk, Anna. "On Copular Sentences in Irish and Polish." Studia Celto-Slavica 3 (2010): 79–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.54586/thio4505.
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The paper aims at comparing syntactic properties of various types of copular sentences found in Irish and in Polish. The two languages are particularly fitted for comparison because, unlike a number of natural languages, they possess two ways of expressing a predication relation. In the case of Irish this relation is expressed by two verbal elements tá and is, while in Polish, in addition to a regular verbal structure with być ‘be’, there occurs a pronominal construction with the invariable element to ‘this’ (cf. the Russian ėto). First, the inflectional forms of the predicative verbal elements are examined. Then, a detailed overview of the contexts in which each copular structure can be used is undertaken. It is noted that in both languages the structures with tá and być can appear with AP, PP, AdvP predicates. However, tá is different from być in that it can also take VP complements. A further difference relates to the fact that while nominal complements in Irish can only follow the copula is, they are perfectly licit in both types of Polish copular structures, nonetheless, yielding a distinct case marking on the predicate. It is worth mentioning that the use of to in Polish is more limited than that of is in Irish; only the latter can co-occur with adjectival and prepositional predicates, while the former can link only identical categories, i.e. either two nominals or two infinitives. Moreover, Polish exhibits an interesting copular structure in which both być and to co-occur, e.g.: Marek to jest mój przyjaciel. ‘lit. Mark this is my friend.’ In the final part of the paper an attempt is made to offer an analysis of the structural positions of both Irish tá and is and Polish być and to, taking into account their linking possibilities, interpretational differences they give rise to and the order of the predicates. It is argued that while two Irish verbs to be can be classed together, an analogous treatment for Polish copular elements cannot be maintained.
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RYAN, JAMES EMMETT. "Fight Club, 1880: Boxing, Class, and Literary Culture in John Boyle O'Reilly's Boston." Journal of American Studies 54, no. 4 (August 19, 2019): 706–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021875819000884.
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Because late nineteenth-century American sport was connected to both immigrant assimilation and cultural prestige, this essay first describes Boston amateur athletics during the later nineteenth century. Ireland-born poet/lecturer/newspaper editor John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–90) provides an important example of social and intellectual class mobility from the perspective of an immigrant writer. We observe through O'Reilly's sporting experiences and literary career how the development of upper-class amateur athletics in Boston and the popularity of boxing among its Irish working classes gave him exceptional influence among both groups. His history of boxing, Ethics of Boxing and Manly Sport (1888), is examined in detail as a key statement on pugilism, masculinity, and American citizenship fame. This view of Boston's intellectual and physical cultures, observed from the standpoint of O'Reilly, a talented writer and a sort of literary counterpart of famed pugilist John L. Sullivan (his friend, occasional sparring partner, and fellow celebrity among the Irish American community), sheds light on newly available pathways to social mobility made possible by simultaneous engagement with literary and athletic cultures.
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Wulff, Helena. "Best and Other Friends: A Creative Essay." Irish University Review 54, no. 1 (May 2024): 124–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2024.0655.
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With Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s bildungsroman, The Dancers Dancing, as a point of departure, this creative essay opens with the protagonist Orla, who is somewhat plump and awkward, and her close friendship with the more sophisticated Aisling. They are in their early teens in the novel, which is set in the Donegal Gaeltacht, where they are a part of a group of girls and boys spending a month learning the Irish language and culture including dancing at a céilí. The essay moves on to imagine Orla and her changing friendships as an adult, both briefly as a Masters student in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and then as an assistant professor at Trinity College. The focus is on Orla’s friendships as an acclaimed writer of fiction. This entails making new friends and colleagues in Ireland’s literary world, but also includes intrigue, inspired by Ní Dhuibhne’s novel Fox, Swallow, Scarecrow and short story ‘A Literary Lunch’. With Orla’s success – and her prominence as a literary critic – comes envy and loss of a friend who used to support her. As an antidote against such intrigue, Orla appreciates her close friendship with Emily, even as she moves abroad, and they are left to communicate online via Skype. Eventually, Orla finds Aisling on Facebook and they reunite in the shelter of old friends from the past.
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Dunn, Peter. "Forsaking their ‘own flesh and blood’? Ulster unionism, Scotland and home rule, 1886–1914." Irish Historical Studies 37, no. 146 (November 2010): 203–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400002224.
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Writing to a ‘Friend in Scotland’, in 1888, the Rev. Hugh Hanna declared: ‘it is the duty of Christian people in these lands to do the best they can for all parts of the United Kingdom’. Having explained why Irish Protestants were opposed to home rule, he then asked how anysection of Scotch Presbyterians should support that policy, and array itself in antagoism to their kinsmen in Ireland? Is it possible that political partisanship can dominate all the considerations of a common lineage and a common faith, and that any part of Scotland would forsake its own flesh and blood to promote the policy and restore the power of a fallen leader ...?
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McMahon, E. M., U. Reulbach, P. Corcoran, H. S. Keeley, I. J. Perry, and E. Arensman. "Factors associated with deliberate self-harm among Irish adolescents." Psychological Medicine 40, no. 11 (January 8, 2010): 1811–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0033291709992145.
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BackgroundDeliberate self-harm (DSH) is a major public health problem, with young people most at risk. Lifetime prevalence of DSH in Irish adolescents is between 8% and 12%, and it is three times more prevalent among girls than boys. The aim of the study was to identify the psychological, life-style and life event factors associated with self-harm in Irish adolescents.MethodA cross-sectional study was conducted, with 3881 adolescents in 39 schools completing an anonymous questionnaire as part of the Child and Adolescent Self-harm in Europe (CASE) study. There was an equal gender balance and 53.1% of students were 16 years old. Information was obtained on history of self-harm life events, and demographic, psychological and life-style factors.ResultsBased on multivariate analyses, important factors associated with DSH among both genders were drug use and knowing a friend who had engaged in self-harm. Among girls, poor self-esteem, forced sexual activity, self-harm of a family member, fights with parents and problems with friendships also remained in the final model. For boys, experiencing bullying, problems with schoolwork, impulsivity and anxiety remained.ConclusionsDistinct profiles of boys and girls who engage in self-harm were identified. Associations between DSH and some life-style and life event factors suggest that mental health factors are not the sole indicators of risk of self-harm. The importance of school-related risk factors underlines the need to develop gender-specific initiatives in schools to reduce the prevalence of self-harm.
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Regan, John M. "The politics of reaction: the dynamics of treatyite government and policy, 1922–33." Irish Historical Studies 30, no. 120 (November 1997): 542–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400013444.
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On 3 July 1944 William T. Cosgrave, the former President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State, wrote to his friend and former colleague, Professor Michael Hayes, reflecting on his life in politics. The occasion was Cosgrave’s retirement as leader of the Fine Gael party. I find this break a painful operation in many respects. Even were my physique equal to the Dáil and political work it seems this slip should have been inevitable ... But we must be candid — in the sphere that one considered the least important but which was the most important we failed — viz to retain popular support. It should not and I believe it is not beyond the capacity of able men to discover a way to the people’s confidence and having found it to keep it.The letter remains a lachrymose valediction to a political career which witnessed Cosgrave’s rise from Dublin municipal politics to the leadership of the first independent Irish government. Cosgrave presided over the first decade of independence. Governments under his leadership fought and won the Civil War which was waged against the implementation of the 1921 Anglo-Irish treaty. In the process they created a stable polity which integrated its internal opponents with remarkable success. Within nine years of defeating the anti-treaty forces in the Civil War Cosgrave’s last government was able to pass power peacefully to its former adversaries in the guise, by 1932, of the Fianna Fail party under the leadership of Eamon de Valera.
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Schewe, Manfred. "Theatre and Obstinacy – a Friend’s Perspective." Scenario: A Journal of Performative Teaching, Learning, Research IX, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 144–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/scenario.9.1.9.
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If somebody living in Dublin and preparing a solo-performance for an academic audience in Cork retreats to a location in Berlin to rehearse for his upcoming show – isn’t that somewhat peculiar? One evening in the winter of 1801 I met an old friend in a public park.2 That is the beginning of the text my friend Peter was reciting as he strolled through the Kleistpark in Berlin. I imagine the way he circles, at a leisurely pace, around the green, time and again pausing at a verge or under one of the mighty beech-trees to practise a gesture or test a graceful move. Each movement, he told me, has its centre of gravity; it is enough to control this within the puppet. The limbs, which are only pendulums, they follow mechanically of their own accord, without further help.3 Walkers, joggers and Turkish women and children sitting on the grass and having their picnic catch the odd word or sentence and may wonder about this elderly gentleman in an Irish sweater. During his days in Berlin, Peter will be fully absorbed in his studies of Kleist’s On the Marionette Theatre (1810) and he will scrutinise each word (e.g. ‘rapier’or ‘vis ...
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Burke, B., C. McGurk, D. Murphy, P. Claffey, S. O'Keeffe, and E. Aherne. "160 TIME TO BIN ‘NEXT OF KIN’?—JUNIOR DOCTORS DEMONSTRATE POOR UNDERSTANDING OF THE TERM IN IRELAND." Age and Ageing 50, Supplement_3 (November 2021): i1—i8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab216.160.
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Abstract Background ‘Next of kin’ (NOK) is a term widely used in the healthcare setting in Ireland to indicate an individual that can be contacted in the event of an emergency when a patient is in hospital. While it has its origins in Irish inheritance law, the term confers no legal or decision-making authority to any other individuals on behalf of a patient in hospital. However, anecdotally, the term is commonly misunderstood with a false belief among healthcare staff that consent should be sought from the NOK when a patient is unable to do so. In this study we sought to assess current understanding of the term among Irish non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs). Methods Data was collected via an online survey, completed by NCHDs across a number of medical and surgical disciplines to investigate their understanding of the term. Descriptive analysis of data was performed in Excel. Results 118 NCHDs completed the survey. While 110 (93.2%) believed a NOK was an emergency contact, 53 (44.9%) believed they assisted in decision making; 58 (49.2%) thought they could provide medical information about the patient. Forty-four doctors (37.3%) believed a NOK was permitted to make medical decisions while 59 (50%) felt they could provide consent on behalf of an incapacitated patient. Sixty-three (53.4%) believed a NOK had legal entitlement to information over and above that of another family member or friend. Conclusion This study highlights several misconceptions surrounding the term ‘next of kin’ in the Irish healthcare setting, particularly around the area of decision-making authority and consent. The term is confusing and unhelpful and should not be used in healthcare. ‘Contact person’ or ‘emergency contact’ are appropriate alternatives. Further education to NCHDs around consent and maintenance of patient autonomy is necessary.
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Lipking, Lawrence. "The Genius of the Shore: Lycidas, Adamastor, and the Poetics of Nationalism." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 111, no. 2 (March 1996): 205–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/463102.
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A collaboration between poetry and nationalism, exemplified by the tutelary border guard or “genius of the shore,” accounts for the interest of many Renaissance poems; redrawing the map, poets express the myths and grievances that hold their nations together. In “Lycidas,” Milton tries to redeem the fatal voyage of Edward King, his Anglo-Irish friend, by renewing the ideal of a missionary spirit, joining poet, saint, and soldier in a protectorate to bridge Ireland and England. In The Lusiads, Camões personifies the Cape of Storms as the titan Adamastor (“Unconquerable”), who curses the audacity of da Gama's voyagers and predicts their future calamities; hence the figure represents both the glory and the self-pity of Portugal and of its national poet. Though Milton and Camões hope for a bright colonial future, they turn their faces, like Benjamin's Angel of History, toward memories of shipwreck in the past.
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CONNOLLY, S. J. "A WOMAN'S LIFE IN MID-EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY IRELAND: THE CASE OF LETITIA BUSHE." Historical Journal 43, no. 2 (June 2000): 433–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x99008912.
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Letitia Bushe (c. 1705–57), daughter of a minor Irish landowner and one-time office- holder, was a member of the intellectual and cultural circle that included Swift's friend, the letter writer Mary Delany, the ‘proto-bluestocking’ Anne Donnellan, and the ‘heretic’ bishop Robert Clayton. The means by which, as a single woman of independent but limited means, Bushe maintained her position within this circle had elements of informal domestic servitude. At the same time a cache of unusually intimate letters reveals a determined individualist, consciously distancing herself from some of the official pieties of her society, and enjoying a greater freedom of thought, action, and speech than might at first sight have been expected. The letters also document Bushe's intense and tortured relationship with a younger woman, Lady Anne Bligh, an episode which raises important questions about the nature of women's friendships at this time.
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Hartnett, Yvonne, Clive Drakeford, Lisa Dunne, Declan M. McLoughlin, and Noel Kennedy. "Physician, heal thyself: a cross-sectional survey of doctors’ personal prescribing habits." Journal of Medical Ethics 46, no. 4 (December 3, 2019): 231–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medethics-2018-105064.
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BackgroundSelf-prescribing and prescribing to personal contacts is explicitly discouraged by General Medical Council guidelines.AimsThis study examines how widespread the practice of self-prescribing and prescribing to personal contacts is.MethodsA 16-item questionnaire was distributed via an online forum comprising 4445 young medical doctors (representing 20% of all Irish registered doctors), which asked respondents about previous prescribing to themselves, their families, friends and colleagues, including the class of medication prescribed. Demographic details were collected including medical grade and specialty.ResultsA total of 729 responses were obtained, the majority of which were from young non-consultant hospital doctors from a range of specialties. Two-thirds of respondents had self-prescribed, over 70% had prescribed to family, and nearly 60% had prescribed to a friend or colleague. Older doctors were more likely to self-prescribe (χ2=17.51, p<0.001). Interns being less likely to self-prescribe was not unexpected (χ2=69.55, p<0.001), while general practitioners (GPs) and paediatricians were more likely to self-prescribe (χ2=13.33, p<0.001; χ2=11.35, p<0.001). GPs, paediatricians and hospital medicine specialties were more likely to prescribe to family (χ2=5.19, p<0.05; χ2=8.38, p<0.05; χ2=6.17, p<0.05) and surgeons were more likely to prescribe to friends (χ2=15.87, p<0.001). Some 3% to 7% who had self-prescribed had prescribed an opiate, benzodiazepine or psychotropic medication. Male doctors, anaesthetists and surgeons were more likely to self-prescribe opioids (χ2=7.82, p<0.01; χ2=7.31, p<0.01; χ2=4.91, p<0.05), while those in hospital medicine were more likely to self-prescribe psychotropic medications (χ2=5.47, p<0.05).ConclusionPrescribing outside the traditional doctor-patient relationship is widespread despite clear professional guidance advising against it.
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MARSHALL, ALAN. "THE WESTMINSTER MAGISTRATE AND THE IRISH STROKER: SIR EDMUND GODFREY AND VALENTINE GREATRAKES, SOME UNPUBLISHED CORRESPONDENCE." Historical Journal 40, no. 2 (June 1997): 499–505. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x97007255.
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One of the more absorbing events in the great drama of the Popish Plot, which swept through English political life in the autumn of 1678, was the discovery of the corpse of a Westminster magistrate, Sir Edmund Berry Godfrey, in a ditch near Primrose Hill on 17 October 1678. This event, which sparked off a great deal of panic in London and gained some notoriety at the time, has continued to perplex historians, both professional and amateur, ever since. The speculation as to how Godfrey met his death and who did the deed, has tended to obscure the fact that we still know surprisingly little about this prominent Westminster merchant and justice of the peace before his demise. Despite an intensive historical investigation of Godfrey's murder, if murder it was, a lack of evidence has always been the main problem for any historian attempting to analyse Godfrey's character and career prior to his death. This was compounded by the allegation that on the night before his disappearance Godfrey burnt a large number of his personal papers. However, located in the collections of the National Library of Ireland is a small white leather-backed volume containing seventeenth-century copies of the correspondence of Sir Edmund Godfrey to his close friend the Irish healer and stroker Valentine Greatrakes. This letterbook is a significant addition to the historical record in that it contains what may be the only surviving personal letters of the ‘murdered’ magistrate during the late 1660s and early 1670s.
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Hunt, Bruce J. "The Origins of the FitzGerald Contraction." British Journal for the History of Science 21, no. 1 (March 1988): 67–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0007087400024389.
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The FitzGerald–Lorentz contraction hypothesis has become well known in connection with Einstein's theory of relativity, and its role in the origin of that theory has been the subject of considerable study. But the origins of the contraction idea itself, and particularly of G. F. FitzGerald's first statement of it in 1889, have attracted much less attention and are surrounded by several misconceptions. The hypothesis has usually been depicted as a rather wild idea put forward without any real theoretical justification simply to explain away the troublesome null result of Michelson and Morley's 1887 ether drift experiment. In the words of Gerald Holton, ‘it has traditionally been called the very paradigm of an ad hoc hypothesis’. H. A. Lorentz, who hit upon the contraction idea independently in 1892, has been credited with giving it some justification in terms of his electron theory, but little or none of this credit has been extended to FitzGerald. His statement of the contraction hypothesis has usually been viewed, in the words of his friend R. T. Glazebrook, as nothing more than ‘the brilliant baseless guess of an Irish genius’.
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Green, Dani, and Angel Daniel Matos. "Right to Read: Reframing Critique: Young Adult Fiction and the Politics of Literary Censorship in Ireland." ALAN Review 44, no. 3 (June 21, 2017): 54–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.21061/alan.v44i3.a.6.
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If you briefly peruse the American Library Association’s annual compilation of the “Top Ten Most Frequently Challenged Books,” it would not be farfetched for you to assume that censorship is an act that is nearly exclusive to children’s and young adult (YA) literature. The complex and close relationship between informational suppression and YA fiction should come as no surprise—authority figures and institutions often want to “protect” children and adolescents from ideas and depictions of realities that they consider harmful. At times, these parental and institutional forces outright question teenagers’ competence when it comes to comprehending and thinking through difficult social and literary issues. While YA literature is often susceptible to acts of censorship, is it possible that the very literary traits of this genre might provide us with the critical tools needed to counteract the suppression of information and ideas? To what extent do YA novels articulate ideas and critiques that other genres of literature refuse (or are unable) to discuss? This issue of The ALAN Review is particularly invested in expanding our understanding of YA literature by exploring the stories that can or cannot be told in different contexts, communities, and locations. While an understanding of the acts of censorship that occur in a US context offers us a glimpse into the tensions that arise between ideas, publishers, and target audiences, an examination of censorship in non-US contexts allows us to further understand the historical and cultural foundations that lead to the institutional suppression of knowledge. Additionally, a more global understanding of these issues could push us to understand the ways in which YA fiction thwarts censorship in surprising, unexpected ways. To nuance our understanding of censorship by adopting a more global perspective, I have collaborated with my friend and colleague Dani Green, who offers us an account of contemporary acts of censorship in Ireland and the ways in which Irish YA literature is particularly suited to express ideas that are deemed unspeakable and unprintable. Dani is a scholar of 19th-century British and Irish literature with an interest in issues of modernity, space, and narrative. As an academic who specializes in both historicist and poststructuralist study, Dani is particularly suited to think through the fraught historical and literary situation of contemporary Ireland and the ways in which YA fiction escapes (and perhaps challenges) the pressures of nationalistic censorship and self-censorship. In the following column, she provides us with a brief overview of the past and present state of censorship in Ireland, focusing particularly on how contemporary Irish writers steer away from offering critiques of Ireland’s economic growth during the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. After sharing this historical context, Dani conducts a case study in which she focuses on how Kate Thompson’sYA novel The New Policeman (2005) blends elements from fantasy and Irish mythology to both communicate and critique Ireland’s economic boom. By taking advantage of elements commonly found in YA texts, she argues that Thompson’s The New Policeman enables a cultural critique that is often impossible to achieve in other forms of Irish literature. Dani ultimately highlights the potential of YA fiction to turn censorship on its head through its characteristic implementation of genre-bending, formal experimentation, and disruption of the familiar.
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Patten, Eve. "Trinity Professors versus Men of Letters: Ferguson, Dowden and De Vere." Irish University Review 52, no. 1 (May 2022): 133–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/iur.2022.0547.
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This essay considers the relationships between Samuel Ferguson, Edward Dowden, and Aubrey de Vere in the late nineteenth century. In evaluating Ferguson’s career shortly after the poet’s death in 1886, W. B. Yeats considered him as being ill-served by the ‘English notions’ of Irish criticism, a slight which was particularly directed at Edward Dowden, then Professor of English at Trinity College Dublin. Rather than viewing this schism solely as a difference of opinion on Gaelic antiquarianism and Celtic Revivalism, this essay considers the divergence between these men as an effect of their respective positioning inside and outside the institutions of academia. It also interprets their relationship against the backdrop of public debates in the period about the nature of literary criticism as well as the role and function of the critic. Drawing on the correspondence between Ferguson, Dowden, and their mutual friend and frequent intermediary Aubrey de Vere, this essay examines how their friendship was affected by a growing distinction between the ‘man of letters’ and the professional academic in the later Victorian period. In particular, it offers an alternative view of Dowden, whose public commitment to the development of English Literature as an academic subject was sometimes belied by his private warmth towards Ferguson and his project of Celtic Revivalism.
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Bundschuh, Jessica. "Testimonial ‘Sideshadowing’: The Narrative Hospitality of Medbh McGuckian’s Blaris Moor." Review of Irish Studies in Europe 4, no. 2 (November 29, 2021): 101–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.32803/rise.v4i2.2818.
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In her recent volume, Blaris Moor (2016), Medbh McGuckian becomes ‘facilitator’ of cultural memory in three poems about the Northern Irish Conflict and Bloody Sunday, ‘The Statement of My Right Honourable Friend’, ‘The Questioning of Soldier L’ and ‘Telltale’. Herein, readers encounter a patchwork of eyewitness accounts and interlocking histories with multiple points of agency and dynamic causation. Significantly, these poems refrain from embracing any single history as inevitable; instead, they employ the literary trope of ‘sideshadowing’ to dialogically displace a predictable, closed-off universe. As a result, McGuckian may welcome contingencies and unplottable possibilities, in contrast to a determinism implicit in foreshadowing or backshadowing. This technique is especially useful in artistic responses to the Troubles, since it avoids a teleological historical model that regards tragic events simultaneously as inevitable – the culmination of a long history of suppression – and, contradictorily, as predictable and, therefore, easily avoidable. Lastly, McGuckian’s decision to bring opposing orthodoxies into an unruly dialogue aligns the poet with the museum curator: both construct diverse narratives built out of contested testimonies and historical artifacts and both, thereby, honour the ethics of ‘narrative hospitality’, a cornerstone of ethical remembering in Northern Ireland.
Keywords: narrative hospitality, sideshadowing, trauma theory, communal witnessing, Bloody Sunday
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Čiočytė, Dalia. "The Concept of the Demonic in Herkus Kunčius’s Novella A Most Loyal Metaphysical Friend and Marius Ivaškevičius’s Drama The Mistr." Colloquia 39 (December 20, 2017): 35–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/col.2017.28719.
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There are two works of contemporary Lithuanian literature that effectively explore the theme of the demonic: Herkus Kunčius’s novella A Most Loyal Metaphysical Friend (Ištikimiausias metafizinis draugas, 2010) and the play The Mistr (Mistras, 2010), by Marius Ivaškevičius. The author of this article examines how these two works modify the traditional literary concept of the demonic – both works present the demonic not in classical, transcendental terms but as an immanent force. Considering the works from the perspective of literary theology, the author asks whether, and which kind of, theological thinking they develop.Herkus Kunčius’s novella is a postmodern metafiction (a fiction about a fiction): the central character of the narrative is the legendary Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula, the main character in Irish writer Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula (1897). Kunčius’s Dracula is the creation of another character’s unhealthy consciousness – a “creation within a creation.” A parody of horror novels, films, etc. about vampires, the novella also parodies the language of psychiatrists, the characters who develop an idea about the demonic as an untreatable psychiatric illness: in the nihilistic reality of the work there simply is no one to treat it.Marius Ivaškevičius’s drama is a tragi-comical grotesque pasted together from Lithuanian historical and cultural symbols and analyzes the person of Adomas Mickevičius (1798–1855). In religious and cultural history, the prototype for Mistr in the play – Andrzej Towiański (1799–1878), a self-proclaimed prophet, “a mistr called by God” – represents the archetypical figure of the false prophet. The main meaning accorded to the demonic as represented in Ivaškevičius’s play is the demonic nature of political oppression: the work offers an original variation on the entanglement of political aggression and the demonic typically found in Lithuanian literature.
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Wilkinson, David. "The Fitzwilliam episode, 1795: a reinterpretation of the role of the duke of Portland." Irish Historical Studies 29, no. 115 (May 1995): 315–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021121400011858.
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This doggerel vindication of Fitzwilliam’s Irish viceroyalty of 1795 gave one contemporary interpretation of this controversial episode. Such a favourable verdict was far from universal at the time and subsequently has been seriously questioned by historians. In one respect, however, this verse succinctly highlighted one of the most striking features of the Fitzwilliam episode. It appeared that the lord lieutenant had been recalled before ‘he scarcely could explain himself’. The English minister principally responsible for initiating the swift recall was the home secretary, the duke of Portland. Since Portland was a close friend and longstanding political ally of Fitzwilliam, this seeming betrayal excited widespread comment and, in certain circles, gave rise to heartsearching consternation. Yet Portland’s motives have never been satisfactorily explained by historians. Attention has repeatedly been paid to the motives of Fitzwilliam himself, and the conduct of the prime minister, the Younger Pitt, has been carefully scrutinised. Explanations of Portland’s behaviour have been left rather on the sidelines. He is usually portrayed as a weak-minded dupe and traitor to his own avowed principles. A re-examination of the evidence permits a more rounded characterisation. Portland’s attitude was complex but coherent. Instead of the conventional picture of a weak man with weak views, Portland emerges as a man with strong views and some failings.
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McAreavey, Naomi. "Female alliances in Cromwellian Ireland: the social and political network of Elizabeth Butler, marchioness of Ormonde." Irish Historical Studies 45, no. 167 (May 2021): 22–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2021.26.
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AbstractElizabeth Butler, marchioness of Ormonde, came to prominence during the middle years of the seventeenth century as a result of her care of Protestant refugees in the aftermath of the 1641 rebellion; her royalist exile in Caen; her successful claim to a portion of the confiscated Ormonde estate; and her subsequent retirement to Dunmore in County Kilkenny. Her letters from the 1650s and 1660 provide valuable insight on her role as an influential Irish royalist, and specifically reveal the importance of women in the social and political network that supported her through this tumultuous period. Prominent among the women in her network include the anonymous ‘JH’, a kinswoman who acted as Ormonde's intelligencer and spy in Cromwell's court in London in the early 1650s; Katherine, Lady Ranelagh, an acquaintance who wielded significant influence with the Cromwellian administration in Dublin and acted as Ormonde's intermediary in the mid 1650s; a group of pre-eminent British noblewomen from prominent royalist families with whom Ormonde maintained a relationship of mutual support from the 1650s into the 1660s; and finally Anne Hume, Ormonde's friend, confidante and long-serving waiting gentlewoman, who acted as her agent and messenger as Ormonde prepared for the Restoration in May 1660. Offering a more granular examination of Ormonde's activities during the 1650s than has been undertaken to date, this article shows that women were of primary importance to Ormonde's survival and indeed thriving through the Interregnum. More broadly, it indicates that female alliances were key to women's political agency in Cromwellian Ireland and that women were central to royalist political activity during the Interregnum.
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Kursawa, Wilhelm. "Sin as an Ailment of Soul and Repentance as the Process of Its Healing. The Pastoral Concept of Penitentials as a Way of Dealing with Sin, Repentance, and Forgiveness in the Insular Church of the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries." Perichoresis 15, no. 1 (May 1, 2017): 21–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/perc-2017-0002.
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Abstract Although the advent of the Kingdom of God in Jesus contains as an intrinsic quality the opportunity for repentance (metanoia) as often as required, the Church of the first five-hundred years shows serious difficulties with the opportunity of conversion after a relapse in sinning after baptism. The Church allowed only one chance of repentance. Requirement for the reconciliation were a public confession and the acceptance of severe penances, especially after committing the mortal sin of apostasy, fornication or murder. As severe as this paenitentia canonica appears, its entire conception especially in the eastern part of the Church, the Oriental Church, is a remedial one: sin represents an ailment of the soul, the one, who received the confession, is called upon to meet the confessing person as a spiritual physician or soul-friend. Penance does not mean punishment, but healing like a salutary remedy. Nevertheless, the lack of privacy led to the unwanted practice of postponing repentance and even baptism on the deathbed. An alternative procedure of repentance arose from the sixth century onwards in the Irish Church as well as the Continental Church under the influence of Irish missionaries and the South-West-British and later the English Church (Insular Church). In treatises about repentance, called penitentials, ecclesiastical authorities of the sixth to the eight centuries wrote down regulations, how to deal with the different capital sins and minor trespasses committed by monks, clerics and laypeople. Church-representatives like Finnian, Columbanus, the anonymous author of the Ambrosianum, Cummean and Theodore developed a new conception of repentance that protected privacy and guaranteed a discrete, an affordable as well as a predictable penance, the paenitentia privata. They not only connected to the therapeutic aspect of repentance in the Oriental Church by adopting basic ideas of Basil of Caesarea and John Cassian, they also established an astonishing network in using their mutual interrelations. Here the earlier penitentials served as source for the later ones. But it is remarkable that the authors in no way appeared as simple copyists, but also as creative revisers, who took regard of the pastoral necessities of the entrusted flock. They appeared as engaged in the goal to improve their ecclesiastical as well as their civil life-circumstances to make it possible that the penitents of the different ecclesiastical estates could perform their conversion and become reconciled in a dignified way. The aim of the authors was to enable the confessors to do the healing dialogue qualitatively in a high standard; quantity was not their goal. The penitents should feel themselves healed, not punished.
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Foley, Fiona, and Roisin Guiry. "124 Creating Greater Public Understanding of Dementia: Findings on the Impact of a Coalition-led National Awareness Programme." Age and Ageing 48, Supplement_3 (September 2019): iii17—iii65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afz103.72.
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Abstract Background Dementia Understand Together is a public support, awareness and stigma reduction campaign aimed at inspiring people from all sections of society to stand together with the 55,000 Irish people living with dementia. Led by the HSE working with The Alzheimer Society of Ireland and Genio it is supported by over 40 partner organisations and 230+ community champions, who are creating communities that actively embrace and include those living with dementia and their families. Methods The campaign uses personal testimonial TV commercials, radio advertising, social media and national and local news stories to build understanding among the general public about dementia. At a local level the campaign is growing a movement of people who are taking action to creative inclusive communities across Ireland. Extensive research using national biennial public surveys (2016 and 2018) (N=1003) and campaign evaluation tools has and continues to inform the development and progression of the campaign. Results 33% of respondents described themselves as knowing a lot about dementia, up from 24% in January 2016. There was a significant difference in attitudes between those who were aware of the campaign and those who were not. Dementia risk reduction is a key message of the national campaign and 52% of respondents were aware that there are things they can do to potentially reduce their risk – up from 46% in 2016. 59% who saw the TV campaign said they were impacted in some way as a result of the personal stories featured and stated that they took some action, such as calling into a friend. Conclusion The development and implementation of the campaign is a partnership approach between the leading organisations working in the area of dementia. Findings show that the campaign is creating better understanding of dementia among the general public, increasing awareness of the condition and risk reduction, and is inspiring people to take actions.
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Myles, Susan. "OP91 Developing A Celtic Connections Regional Health Technology Assessment Alliance." International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care 35, S1 (2019): 23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266462319001442.
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IntroductionThe Irish, Scottish and Welsh national Health Technology Assessment (HTA) bodies (Health Information and Quality Authority, Health Technology Assessment Group, Scottish Health Technologies Group, Health Technology Wales) have recently (2018) established a ‘Celtic connections’ regional HTA alliance on non-medicine technologies. The primary purpose is to add value by realizing potential economies of scale and scope in non-medicine HTA efforts.MethodsA Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was agreed to: formalize collaboration and partnership working; improve shared understanding of work programs and processes; collaborate on and co-produce evidence reviews of mutual interest; increase both the volume and range of technology topics for which advice is developed in each nation; promote knowledge exchange; and enhance professional and personal development for each agency's staff.ResultsEarly benefits include: collaboration on one technology topic resulting in the production of bespoke guidance in three countries; an update of a partner's rapid review; identification of a further potential topic collaboration (sacral nerve stimulation); a six month senior staff secondment; and reciprocal observer membership on each country's national committees. Other general benefits have included: reduced duplication of effort; improved quality assurance through ‘critical friend’ peer review; enhanced access to methodological advice and a broader range of stakeholders; and development of a forum for discussion and peer support.ConclusionsThe alliance offers real potential to optimize use of the scarce resources for non-medicine technologies across the three countries and increase evidence review and guidance volume through adapting or co-producing outputs. Longer term benefits are anticipated to include: improved knowledge exchange; advancing skills of staff; building and broadening capacity through shared learning and access to a wider professional peer group; improved staff recruitment and retention; production of joint publications and other modes of dissemination; and increased profile for each country's work.
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Hou, Siyan. "Psychological Growth of the Protagonist in Pygmalion from Ecological System Theory." Social Science, Humanities and Sustainability Research 4, no. 5 (December 15, 2023): p159. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sshsr.v4n5p159.
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George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics has extended all over the world from 1880s up until now. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalion and Saint Joan. With the great capacity of using play to reflect the reality, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his era. Shaw’s Pygmalion is one of the most popular of his plays. It has been staged all over the English speaking world. And even a film based on the play called My Fair Lady has proved to be an immense success, and has made everyone knows about this play. Its popularity has been perennial and universal.Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, one day overhears a flower girl named Eliza Doolittle and mocks the common way she talks. The next day, Eliza shows up and asks Higgins to teach her talk properly. But his friend Colonel Pickering bets him that he can’t make Eliza talk like a lady in six months’ time. During the time that he accepts the challenge and teaches Eliza, Eliza has many psychological growth. Based on the ecological system theory, this paper makes an analysis of the positive influences of the environment on Eliza from different people and society in reference with five dimensions—microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem and chronosystem. The influence from Eliza’s original family, especially from her father, the guidance and deeds of Higgins, and some effects from the society as the microsystem provide positive help for the psychological growth of Eliza. And the interactions among the microsystem, which construct the mesosystem, together with the exosystem and macrosystem make Eliza, a flower girl, grows into a Duchess Eliza with pride and self-consciousness.
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Lyng, A., T. McCarthy, R. Glynn, R. Guiry, M. Shields, and F. Bonas. "Getting Ireland Moving for World Cancer Day 2018." Journal of Global Oncology 4, Supplement 2 (October 1, 2018): 135s. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jgo.18.37200.
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Background and context: World Cancer Day (WCD) aims to increase awareness and empower individuals to reduce their risk of cancer. Each year in Ireland approximately 800 new cancer cases and 300 cancer deaths are due to obesity. Aim: For WCD the Irish National Cancer Control Program (NCCP) aimed to increase public awareness of the risk of cancer due to obesity and the protective link with physical activity. Behavioral action was encouraged by partnering with parkrun ( www.parkrun.ie , a national free running event) to encourage participants to bring a friend and spread the cancer prevention message. Strategy/Tactics: A single overarching message was established: bring a friend to parkrun on the 3rd February for World Cancer Day. Two target audiences were identified: - General public watching Operation Transformation a national interactive TV program supporting weight loss and encouraging health behaviors - parkrun participants. Program/Policy process: Campaign activities were planned in conjunction with parkrun and HSE communications: - Digital assets designed - Press release issued to local and national media - Partner pack with key messages, social assets, campaign activity and supporting evidence disseminated to statutory bodies, NGOs and charities - NCCP cancer expert feature on Operation Transformation - Social media campaign @HSELive and @parkrunIE - Articles in parkrun newsletter prior to WCD - Announcements at parkrun events around the country prior to WCD - Communication to health service staff. Outcomes: On the 3rd February 10,169 individuals participated in parkrun, coordinated by 1153 volunteers. Cancer prevention and survivorship articles were published in 3 parkrun newsletters. #WorldCancerDay posts reached 39,000 on parkrun Facebook and 33,700 on parkrun Twitter. HSE paid Facebook posts reached 375,861 with a high level of engagement. Unpaid posts reached 5458. Tweets issued had a total reach of over 280,000. Parkrun directors provided the following feedback: “I think it was a great success - the engagement on social media both through parkrun Ireland and through the local event social media was brilliant.” “I think all the local events had at least one post on #WorldCancerDay during that time and most had had more and the feedback was uniformly positive, a couple of the parkruns (notably Dundalk parkrun) invited local cancer support groups to the event as well and in Dundalk´s case they actually gave a little talk before the event which was well received.” What was learned: - Inclusion of digital images for partners to share on social media was an integral element of the partner pack. - Straightforward message with a call to action built on an existing initiative with a broad reach across the country. - At the time of the campaign there was a large amount of national media coverage of Operation Transformation, impacting on space for media coverage. In the future consider a more local approach.
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Barry, John. "Class, political economy and loyalist political disaffection: agonistic politics and the flag protests." Global Discourse 9, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 457–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/204378919x15646705882384.
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The flag protests in Northern Ireland (2012–13) offer an opportunity on the one hand to examine the politics of dispossession, national identity, decline and political violence in loyalist areas in Belfast. On the other, they are an opportunity to examine of hope, leadership and change within working class loyalism – not least, around the re-imagining of what Britishness can/could or perhaps should mean in post-Agreement Northern Ireland. This article offers an activist-academic perspective on and interpretation of the meaning and potential of those protests around how they reveal both a fracturing and potential for rethinking Britishness. It suggests the possibilities and limits of an inclusive, civic, rather than ethnic, national identity, and a sense of Britishness sufficient to the task of agonistic (as opposed to antagonistic) engagement and contestation with Irish nationalism and republicanism. By antagonistic I mean relations that are characterised in whole or part in terms of ‘friend-enemy’ thus containing within them the possibility of violence, while by agonistic I mean oppositional relations that do not contain this threat of violence. Agonism (from Greek agon, meaning ‘struggle’) emphasises the potentially positive aspects of certain (but not all) forms of political conflict. It accepts a permanent place for such conflict, but seeks to show how we might accept and channel this positively. It is also to affirm the legitimacy of one’s political adversary and their objectives even if one fundamentally disagrees with those objectives. The article argues that an agonistic conceptualisation of democracy and democratic change understood as non-violent disagreement (as opposed to consensus and agreement) is a more accurate and useful understanding than a conceptualisation of democracy and politics as either agreement or antagonism. In this way one can interpret the flag protests as vacillating between a legitimate democratic agonistic politics of struggle and contestation and an illegitimate, reactionary antagonistic politics of violence and threat.
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O'Hara, Leeanne, Charlotte Neville, Calum Marr, Michael McAlinden, Frank Kee, David Weir, and Bernadette McGuinness. "Investigating the prevalence of cognitive impairment and dementia in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA): the Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) cross-sectional substudy." BMJ Open 14, no. 1 (January 2024): e075672. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2023-075672.
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IntroductionThe Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) study is the largest study of ageing in Northern Ireland (NI). The Harmonised Cognitive Assessment Protocol (HCAP) is a substudy of NICOLA designed to assess cognitive impairment and dementia in individuals aged 65 and over. The NICOLA-HCAP substudy is funded by the National Institute on Aging as part of a network for enhancing cross-national research within a worldwide group of population-based, longitudinal studies of ageing, all of which are centred around the US-based Health and Retirement Study.Methods and analysisThe NICOLA-HCAP study will draw on the main NICOLA cohort (of 8283 participants) and randomly sample 1000 participants aged 65 and over to take part in the substudy. Participants will complete a series of cognitive tests (n=19) via a computer-assisted personal interview administered in their home (or alternatively within the research centre) and will be asked to nominate a family member or friend to complete an additional interview of validated instruments to provide information on respondent’s prior and current cognitive and physical functioning and whether the individual requires help with daily activities. The objectives of the study are: to investigate the prevalence of dementia and cognitive impairment in NICOLA; harmonise scoring of the NICOLA-HCAP data to the HCAP studies conducted in Ireland, the USA and England; to explore the validity of dementia estimates; and investigate the risk factors for dementia and cognitive impairment.Ethics and disseminationThe study received ethical approval from the Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences Research Ethics Committee, Queen’s University Belfast. We will provide data from the Northern Irish HCAP to the research community via data repositories such as the Dementias Platform UK and Gateway to Global Aging to complement existing public data resources and support epidemiological research by others. Findings will also be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications and at international conferences.
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Skalnaya, Yulia A. "“Pantaloon” and “Columbine” in the Land of the Soviets: Bernard Shaw and Nancy Astor’s Visit to the USSR in 1931." Literary Fact, no. 32 (2024): 292–319. http://dx.doi.org/10.22455/2541-8297-2024-32-292-319.
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The research is dedicated to the well-known visit of the Irish dramatist Bernard Shaw and the British MP Lady Nancy Astor to the USSR in 1931. However, it seeks to avoid the format of a clichéd observation of commonly known facts concerning their stay in the Land of the Soviets and aims to concentrate on previously unknown circumstances of the preparation of that trip organised by representatives of the People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs and diplomats of the Soviet Embassy in London, on the one hand, and the media struggle evoked by that visit within the Soviet and the British press. The novelty of the research is provided by the use of numerous archival documents (AVP RF, RGALI) as well as quoting Bernard Shaw’s private correspondence and his friend Beatrice Webb’s diaries that have not been translated into Russian. The methodological foundation of this article is built upon the biographical and cultural-historic approaches; it also employs narrative techniques in recreating the historical background of Shaw’s visit, and content analysis in commenting on the media publications, and methods of archival research per se. Having considered the abovementioned documents, one can conclude that despite Shaw’s avid interest in Russia, his visit there was to a large extent spontaneous, which, together with Nancy Astor’s unpredictable escapades, caused considerable difficulties to the Soviet officials. Nevertheless, the variety of experiences offered to the British guests as well as the satisfaction of both reasonable and whimsical requests made by the dramatist managed to produce a favourable impression on the company and lead to Shaw’s companions giving generally positive feedback of the trip to the USSR whereas Shaw himself exalted in rave reviews. As a result, the victory scored by the Soviet soft power instigated a deluge of publications in the British media that aimed to discredit Shaw and Lady Astor as central figures of the trip. However, it cannot be said that those angry and even harsh commentaries caused any serious damage to their reputation or influenced their opinions of the USSR at the time.
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Kelly, Mary C. "“Spiritual heirs of the great Protestants who gave their lives for Ireland”: Expanding Irish American Nationalist Landscapes, 1919–1922." Journal of American Ethnic History 40, no. 4 (July 1, 2021): 5–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/jamerethnhist.40.4.0005.
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Abstract Overshadowed by more numerous Catholic immigrant compatriots, Irish Protestants receive scant attention in histories of post-colonial Irish settlement. This neglected dimension of the ethnic history is addressed here through a nationalist organization that supported Ireland’s independence cause from an explicitly Protestant worldview. Protestant Friends of Ireland (PFI) operations reveal a more diverse and complex ethnic landscape than the historical record suggests. Despite their distancing from cultural roots across the Atlantic, ethnic Irish communities maintained interest in Ireland’s political status. This article argues that the short duration of Protestant Friends campaigns between 1919 and 1922 belies their scale and impact. Ethnic contemporaries witnessed an extensive Protestant nationalist presence in PFI crusading and active recollection of Protestant Irish patriots. PFI connections embraced by Ireland’s polarizing political principal, Éamon de Valera, assume a central role in this account, while the confluence of events in 1921 signaled a transition for America’s Irish.
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Lynn, Shane. "Friends of Ireland: early O’Connellism in Lower Canada." Irish Historical Studies 40, no. 157 (May 2016): 43–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ihs.2016.6.
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AbstractIn September 1828, societies of the ‘Friends of Ireland’ were founded throughout the United States and British North America for the purpose of raising funds and disseminating propaganda in support of the O’Connellite campaign for Catholic emancipation. In March 1831, the societies were briefly revived to agitate for repeal of the Union. The first Irish diasporic social movement to appear in Britain’s overseas empire, the British North American Friends of Ireland enjoyed greatest support in French-speaking Lower Canada, where for a time sympathetic local patriotes perceived a common cause with their new Irish neighbours. This article explores the transatlantic reciprocal interactions, cross-ethnic alliances and regional distinctions which characterised early O’Connellism in Lower Canada. It follows its initial successes to its virtual collapse in the early 1830s, as an increasingly polarised Lower Canada slid towards rebellion. Comparisons are employed with similar agitation elsewhere in British North America, in the United States, and in Ireland. It is argued that instrumentalist explanations for Irish diasporic nationalism, typically drawn from studies of post-famine Irish-America, do not convincingly account for the appearance and form of O’Connellite nationalism in British North America.
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Gahan, Peter. "History and Religious Imagination: Bernard Shaw and the Irish Literary Revival—an Overview." Shaw 42, no. 2 (November 1, 2022): 267–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/shaw.42.2.0267.
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ABSTRACT An overview of Bernard Shaw’s involvement in early twentieth-century Irish history, both political and cultural. Pressure building since the death of Parnell in 1891 would lead to Ireland’s independence from Britain and the establishment of the Irish free State in 1922, with Shaw’s Irish friends Horace Plunkett, Augusta Gregory, George Russell (“Æ”), and especially W. B. Yeats all prime movers in major new national cultural institutions that sprang up around the turn of the century. Through these four as well as his Irish wife, Charlotte Shaw, Shaw became involved in both the affairs of the nation as well as in Irish drama, especially Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. Yeats and his work were particularly important for Shaw’s contributions to the Irish literary revival, in which, whether in satirical, comic, or tragic modes, his Irish plays comprehend Irish mythology, history, imagination, and religious salvation.
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Kennedy, Maria. "Irish Quaker Identities: Complex Identity in the Religious Society of Friends." Brill Research Perspectives in Quaker Studies 2, no. 2 (August 8, 2019): 1–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2542498x-12340010.
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Abstract This work is a sociological study of Quakers, which investigates the impact that sectarianism has had on identity construction within the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland. The research highlights individual Friends’ complex and hybrid cultural, national and theological identities, mirrored by the Society’s corporate identity. This publication focuses specifically on examples of political and theological hybridity. These hybrid identities resulted in tensions that impact on relationships between Friends and the wider organisation. How Friends negotiate and accommodate these diverse identities is explored. It is argued that Irish Quakers prioritise ‘relational unity’ and have developed a distinctive approach to complex identity management. It is asserted that in the two Irish states, ‘Quaker’ represents a meta-identity, which is counter-cultural in its non-sectarianism, although this is more problematic within the organisation. Furthermore, by modelling an alternative, non-sectarian identity, Quakers in Ireland contribute to building capacity for transformation from oppositional, binary identities to more fluid and inclusive ones.
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Meaney, Sheila, and John Robb. "Shooting Ireland: the American tourism market and promotional film." Irish Geography 39, no. 2 (May 4, 2014): 129–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.55650/igj.2006.157.
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The 1950s emerges as a key decade in the development of modem Irish tourism. This paper explores the interplay of romantic and nostalgic images of Ireland with the opening of the Irish tourist market to a wider audience through the medium of film. Irish American influence is clearly seen in the projection of a traditional, rural lifestyle. Though dominant culturally, mid-century Irish American visitors tended to belong to the 'visiting friends and relations' category, less lucrative than the general vacation market. The early promotion of 'non-genealogical' American tourism can be seen to extend to European markets later. Ironically, American finance and advice tended to confirm pre-independence places, tastes and activities rather than nationalist alternatives.
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Mazza, Angela. "Are we citizens adrift or citizens assured?" Boolean: Snapshots of Doctoral Research at University College Cork, no. 2011 (January 1, 2011): 123–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.33178/boolean.2011.27.
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What does citizenship mean to you? What role does your nationality play in your identity? I am a person of dual nationality; I am born in America and my father was Irish. I grew up never feeling truly American, as my mother was Italian and my dad;, having lived most of his adult life in California, remained pure Irish, from the friends he played golf with to an accent none of my American friends could understand. I remained ‘on the fence’ regarding my American citizenship. Although we lived in southern California, all our family friends came from Ireland and my house was always filled with people visiting from Europe. After America went to war, I moved my family to Ireland in search of a different way of life far from the hectic insanity of Los Angeles and I found myself in Cork in 2003, in a completely different world. In ...
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Clark, D., and F. Graham. "Irish Hospice Friendly Hospitals programme." BMJ 341, oct19 1 (October 19, 2010): c5843. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c5843.
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Yebra, Jose M. "Transgenerational and Intergenerational Family Trauma in Colm Tóibín’s The Blackwater Lightship and “Three Friends”." Moderna Språk 109, no. 2 (December 17, 2015): 122–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.58221/mosp.v109i2.7936.
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This article analyses Colm Tóibín's The Blackwater Lightship (1999) and his short story "Three Friends" (2006), which are the testimony of the changes affecting current Ireland, especially those concerning the roles and engagement between females and gays. Drawing on Abraham and Torok's The Shell and the Kernel (1994), my main contention is that Tóibín's texts explore the trans-generational transmission of trauma and memory in an Irish context. Also Grabriele Schwab's Haunting legacies (2010), which explains the transference and haunting of trauma from both Holocaust victims and perpetrators to their descendants, will give a fuller understanding of The Blackwater Lightship and "Three Friends". I will demonstrate that different generations of Irish women, or Irish women and their (gay) sons hurt one another, being both victims and perpetrators. This paper also analyses the effectiveness of the language of trans/inter-generational memory and conflict, especially when paradoxically transmitted through strategic silences and meaningful gaps. Thus, Tóibín's texts look at the past and how it is codified and transmitted at a family level to eventually herald a message of renewal.
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Knowlton, Steven R. "The Quarrel Between Gavan Duffy and John Mitchel: Implications for Ireland." Albion 21, no. 4 (1989): 581–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4049538.
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In the annals of nineteenth-century Ireland, few disputes between public figures have been more rancorous or more significant than the fight that began in 1848 between two seemingly like-minded journalists, Charles Gavan Duffy and John Mitchel. In the mid-1840s, Duffy and Mitchel were colleagues on the most influential nationalist newspaper in Irish history, the Nation. But in 1847, relations between the two men became strained, and Mitchel resigned to start his own, more radical, paper. The former friends and colleagues soon became the bitterest of enemies. Their public quarrels over the next few years severely damaged each man's personal reputation — and also damaged the Irish nationalist cause in which each so fervently believed.Unlike many running Irish feuds, which merely exacerbate old stereotypes about the Gaels being a fractious race, the Mitchel-Duffy controversy haddirect political fallout at a critical point in the development of political separatism in Ireland. The quarrel erupted just when Irish nationalists had an unusual opportunity to bring enormous pressure to bear on the British House of Commons. The Tory party of the 1840s had been shattered, first by Sir Robert Peel's turnabout on free trade in 1846, and then by Peel's death four years later. The modern idea of nearly automatic, lifelong adhesion to strong central parties was still some years off, and the two major British parties were scrambling for friends.