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Just Public Mausoleums? Museums and Intangible Heritage: A Case-study of the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
Get PDFFollowing an expansion of international conceptions of heritage to include the intangible, it has also been questioned what role museums have to play regarding our living cultural heritage. Using the National Museum of Ireland - Country Life / Ard-Mhúsaem na hÉireann - Saol na Tuaithe (NMI-CL) as a case-study, this research explores why intangible heritage should be incorporated into a national folklife museum, the extent to which this is already being done, and analyses some of the related difficulties. This paper shows that although the museum values and involves intangible heritage, it is treated as secondary to tangible culture and supplementary to the tangible collection, which limits its use in the museum. This paper suggests that engaging intangible heritage in its exhibitions and programming can serve as a one tool to help museums become more engaging and lively institutions. It outlines a story-focussed exhibition and programming approach that would allow tangible and intangible material to be treated as equals, and enable the museum to more closely interweave its many different activities
Winners and Losers on the Roller-Coaster: Ireland, 2003-2011
Get PDFThis paper applies the methodology of Ravallion and Chen in calculating growth incidence curves for Ireland over the 2003-2011 period, using measures of equivalised disposable income from the Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC). These curves provide an indication of growth at different percentiles of the distribution and may be used to address the issue of whether growth was pro-poor or not. The analysis suggests that growth was broadly propoor over the period as a whole and also over two sub-periods of 2003-2007 and 2008-2011, reflecting periods of boom and recession respectively. However, the results must be qualified by the fact that the income measure may not completely capture living standards as it deals incompletely with housing costs and state provided services
The Socio-economic Gradient of Obesity in Ireland – Corrigendum
Get PDFIn a paper published in this journal in 2013 concentration indices for obesity were presented for male and female obesity. Decompositions of the indices were also presented. There was an error in the calculations which led to an overstatement of the concentration indices for obesity for both men and women. The decompositions were qualitatively unaffected. The corrected results are presented here
Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalised World (Constance DeVereaux and Martin Griffin: Ashgate, 2013)
Get PDFThe article reviews Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalised World, written by Constance DeVereaux and Martin Griffin (2013), which explores narrative as a conceptualisation within cultural policy discourse.
Narrative, Identity, and the Map of Cultural Policy: Once Upon a Time in a Globalised World (Ashgate, 2013) is written by Constance DeVereaux of Colorado State University and Martin Griffin of University of Tennessee. In the book the authors propose a new academic approach to cultural policy, which they suggest has the potential to offer new ways of thinking and understanding the subject. The main focus of this new research approach is an exploration of narrative as a conceptualisation within cultural policy discourse. The authors view cultural policy as sitting within a framework of different narratives that are, at best, difficult to navigat
Financialisation and Income Inequality in OECD Nations: 1995-2007
Get PDFThis paper attempts to examine the link between financialisation and income inequality in advanced countries from a comparative perspective using data from 20 OECD countries over a period of 13 years (1995-2007). The initial regression results show an overall strong correlation between several of the financialisation indicators and income inequality net of conventional explanations including economic growth rate, unemployment, globalisation, left party power, social spending, union density, female participation in the labour market, and wage bargaining centralisation. The results also show that although financialisation has a positive association with income inequality in nations with strong as well as weak unions, the association is stronger in the latter
Wage Inequality in Ireland’s “Celtic Tiger” Boom
Get PDFIreland offers a valuable case study of the evolution of wage inequality in a period of exceptional growth in output, employment and incomes from 1994 to 2007. We find that dispersion in hourly wages across all employees fell sharply to 2000, before increasing though much less sharply to 2007. Returns to both education and work experience declined considerably in the earlier period, while the increase in lower earnings relative to the median was associated with the introduction of the minimum wage in 2000, anchoring the bottom of the distribution subsequently. The more rapid increase in higher earnings in the latter part of the boom may be associated with the changing patterns of immigration and employment growth
Distance Effects, Social Class and the Decision to Participate in Higher Education in Ireland
Get PDFWhile a number of international studies have attempted to assess the influence of geographic accessibility on the decision to participate in higher education, this issue has not been addressed in detail in an Irish context. The aim of this paper is to fill this gap and to present a higher education choice model that estimates the impact of travel distance on the decision of school leavers to proceed to higher education in Ireland, while also controlling for a range of individual level characteristics and school related variables. To do so we use data from the 2007 wave of the School Leavers’ Survey and find that, on average, travel distance is not an important factor in the higher education participation decision, when factors such as student ability are accounted for. However, further analysis shows that travel distance has a significantly negative impact on participation for those from lower social classes and that this impact grows stronger as distance increases. We also find that the distance effects are most pronounced for lower ability students from these social backgrounds. This has important implications for higher education policy in Ireland, especially in relation to equity of access and the design of the maintenance grant system
UK Tourists, the Great Recession and Irish Tourism Policy
Get PDFInbound tourism to Ireland fell sharply in 2009 and 2010. Visits to Ireland from the UK, the dominant country of origin of visitors to Ireland, did not fall faster than UK visits elsewhere. We use a pooled travel cost model for UK travellers to estimate price elasticities of tourism demand for various market segments. The proposed reduction in the travel tax, and the reduction in the VAT rate for “tourism goods and services” would lead to a modest increase in visitor numbers and expenditure. However, the increase in expenditure is small compared to the forgone tax revenue
What Makes a Country a Tax Haven? An Assessment of International Standards Shows Why Ireland Is Not a Tax Haven
Get PDFThis paper explores the issue of tax havens and tax competition. The recent intensified debate on tax havens is summarised, as is the important work of the OECD, the EU and the G-20 in this area and the ongoing research on the economic effects of tax havens. Ireland does not meet any of the OECD criteria for being a tax haven but because of its 12.5 per cent corporation tax rate and the open nature of the Irish economy, Ireland has on a few occasions been labelled a tax haven. There are three primary reasons for this identified, each addressed in the paper: a failure to distinguish between legitimate and abusive transfer pricing; a misunderstanding of the role and regulation of IFSC; and a dated but influential academic paper from 1994 that incorrectly included Ireland in a list of tax havens, based on a reason that has long since lost any validity
Foreword - Vol 1
No full textProfessor Emeritus of Psychology, University College Dublin, Ciarán Benson, outlines the important contribution a research-focused journal on arts management and cultural policy could present the island of Ireland.
Sometimes it is only when something arrives that you realise that it was missing and has been missed. The Irish Journal of Arts Management and Cultural Policy is just such an arrival. While there has long been a commitment to actively shape cultural policy in and for Ireland, often as a means of furthering nationalism, it is only in the last forty years or so that a more self-critical and diverse constituency has emerged with a common commitment to making ‘culture’, in all its rich variety, a central part of Irish social life and political discourse