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Urban recycle. Regenerative strategies for the “horizontal city”
Get PDFThis paper proposes the first steps and subsequent developments of an experimental approach – through the actions carried out by the Reggio Calabria Operational Unit in the “Re-Cycle Italy” PRIN1 and developed in further subsequent research – aimed at regenerating the degraded landscapes2 in the urban margin areas of the “horizontal city” in Southern Italy. The result of the research is a proposal of a settlement model in which to hypothesise an “ecological transition”. From the “horizontal city” that exploits primary resources and produces urban waste and fragile territories, to a model of “metropolis landscape” that is based on modern widely shared principles of urban recycling, sustainable development, sharing and participation, circular economy and the care of the landscape
Southern Celts: Voices from Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFInterview narrators reflect on living their cultural connections to Ireland and Scotland while living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Among the questions they focus on are whether the experience of colonisation in the northern hemisphere has influenced relations with Maori, the indigenous people of Aotearoa. These co-created, layered and complex narratives are viewed as ‘‘lived and told stories’’, with the reader seen as a co-participant in the narrative. Applying the narrative analysis lenses of time and place left the researcher with a sense of the passage of time and the constant change that it bought for her own family and for interview narrators. These narratives are offered with a sense of celebration for the strength of cultures which can remake themselves across hemispheres and generations
Scotland’s Easter Rising Veterans and the Irish Revolution
Get PDFIn 1916 members of the Scottish unit of the Irish Volunteers were deeply involved in preparations for the Easter Rising in Dublin and some republican activists travelled from the west of Scotland to participate in the rebellion. What follows is a limited prosopography of the revolutionary involvement of those members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB), the Irish Volunteers, or Cumann na mBan, who were resident in Scotland between 1913 and 1915 and who fought in Ireland in 1916, or who were prevented from doing so because they were imprisoned. By covering militant activity in both Ireland and Britain, this treatment will argue that Scotland’s Irish republicans were highly integrated with the wider separatist movement in Ireland and beyond, while being very much of the Glasgow, and Europe, of their time
The Irish in France: Assessing Changes in the Profile of Irish Emigrants over the last 30 years
Get PDFThe “Irish in France Research Project” was set up to fill the gap in the knowledge regarding Irish people living in France. This article will compare the data from this project with the principle research study available on Irish people living in Paris carried out by Piaras MacÉinrí in the late 1980s and will evaluate the key changes in the make-up of this migrant group since this time. MacÉinrí concluded that the Irish in Paris were a community in transition and that an Irish presence would develop and grow. He posited that Irish emigration to France would become the norm rather than the exception. This article will assess just how this migration movement has evolved in the last 30 years and if these changes are indeed in line with MacÉinrí’s predictions.
Un episodio di ‘patriottismo’ servile nella Roma arcaica
Get PDFPhilotis-Tutula and her fellow slaves, as the story told by Plutarch and Macrobius goes, sexually entertained the Latin (or Fidenates’) army besieging the ruins of Rome after Brennus had sacked the town, so as to enable the Romans to burst suddenly into the enemies’ camp and destroy them. From that episode the Roman festival of Nonae Caprotinae(or Capratinae) is said to have drawn its origin. The article seeks to explain the ideological meaning of the story and to investigate when and why it was created
Il testo dello Scolio ad Euripide Andr. 10
Get PDFA new reading of the scholionon Euripides Andr. 10 in the manuscript Marcianus Graecus 471, with the help of the UV lamp, allowed to recover a better text, with benefits also for the fragment of Dionysius of Chalkis (FGrHist1773 F 14) handed down there (about the cities founded in the Troad by Skamandrios and Askanios)
Caesar’s veni vidi vici and Plutarch
Get PDFContrary to Philip A. Stadter’s contention, Plutarch probably possessed no more than a working knowledge of Latin. His judgments on Roman orators and his statements about the character of the Latin language are accordingly based on ready-made clichés. In particular, his evaluation of Caesar’s famous motto veni vidi vici, which he gives in Greek translation, lays stress on the homeoteleuton, inevitable in any tricolon made up of three Latin perfects in the first person singular, taking no heed of its most prominent feature, namely the alliteration