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Irish language film policy in Ireland
Full text linkIrish language cinema has experienced unprecedented growth and exposure in recent years, particularly with the critical and commercial success of An Cailín Ciúin [The Quiet Girl] (2022). Winner of The Grand Prix of the International Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2022, the film subsequently received a large number of further national and international awards including 8 Irish Film & Television Academy (IFTA) awards and culminating with its nomination on January 24 2023 for the Best International Feature Film Oscar, the first Irish-language production to receive such recognition. This article provides a historical context for understanding the achievement of An Cailín Ciúin in light of the development of policy with regard to Irish language cinema in Ireland. It will chart the emergence of the sector from the silent period through to recent developments, and identify key moments in the historical development of film production in the Irish language, including the establishment of TG4 (originally titled TnaG (Teilifís na Gaeilge)) in 1996, the enactment of the Broadcasting (Funding) Act 2003, and the launch of the Cine4 scheme in 2017.
Learning from Agricultural Land Market Regulation Policies in EU Member States
Full text linkThis article draws from economic theory and the recent European Commission report on agricultural land market regulation to assess the suitability of selected regulatory policies for agricultural land markets in Ireland. Insights from policy in other EU Member States indicates that some flexibility is always required to permit the existence of temporary land leasing contracts. Farmland rental prices in Ireland have mainly followed the underlying returns to agriculture and been much less influenced by speculative bubbles relative to farmland sales markets. The land rental data for 2019 do not point to the need for maximum price regulation. The availability of reliable statistics is not a sufficient condition to prevent bubbles from emerging, but farmland markets need to be closely monitored with up-to-date official statistics informing potential market participants and public policy
Sociology and Economics – Towards a Normative Partnership in Analysing and Responding to ‘Globalisation from Below’
Full text linkI am honoured to have been invited to deliver the 2023 Geary Lecture, and I am delighted to be in a position to host the event here in Áras an Uachtaráin. May I welcome all of you here today, be it from the Economic and Social Research Institute, or other sites of research or teaching, in sociology and economics, across the third-level sector
Improving the Quality of Medical Handover Through the ISBAR³ Technique in Children’s Health Ireland at Temple Street
No full textBackground: Medical handover is considered an important aspect of patient care to provide safe and quality care to patients. As the medical community moves away from 24-hour shifts, there is a greater need for a standardised handover to be implemented. Medical handover techniques are currently being criticised for their lack of structure, often leading to errors in patient care. Improvement in medical handover is crucial, as transfer in care can be associated with hospital mortality. We aimed to integrate interactive prompts and brief teaching sessions on the ISBAR³ technique to improve the quality and standardisation of medical handover.
Methods: Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) methodology was employed. Four cycles, each of a 3-day duration, were completed over a 4-week study period. Data collection and introduction of implementation measures were completed from Monday to Friday to increase staff awareness. The methodology of each cycle was developed from the outcomes of previous cycles and discussions with key stakeholders.
Results: The baseline data of this project revealed inconsistent and unreliable use of some aspects of the ISBAR³ handover tool. The second cycle displayed an overall improvement in the engagement of ISBAR³. The areas of Identify, Situation, Background, and Assessment averaged 100% utilisation across all days of phase 2. Outcomes of the third cycle revealed continuous engagement with ISBAR³, inferring the beneficial use of multi-media prompts. Outcomes of the final cycle, focused on clinical handover adherence and standardise access to computer software, showed significant improvement in all areas of the medical handover.
Conclusion: This PDSA–based quality improvement project demonstrates the speed at which a high-quality intervention can be rolled out in a high-pressure clinical environment. The 4-cycle PDSA model had a positive impact on the process measures of clinical handover in a tertiary paediatric centre
Book review: Women in the Irish Film Industry. Stories and Storytellers. Liddy, Susan, 2020. Cork: Cork University Press. 258 pp., £28.67 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-78205-373-6
Full text linkIn Women in the Irish Film Industry. Stories and Storytellers (Cork University Press, 2020), editor Susan Liddy and contributors present an informed and comprehensive analysis of women’s roles and participation in the Irish film and screen industries. This collection is an important account of the gendered aspects of Irish culture, negotiating, through its seventeen chapters and contributors, the intersecting cultural, social, and artistic dynamics of a changing and changeable Ireland. In her introduction to the volume, Liddy acknowledges the importance of reclaiming hidden and oppressed histories, noting that ‘the processes and practices that can foster and normalise such exclusion are important to excavate, analyse, and challenge’ (Liddy, 2020, p. 1), something this collection does carefully and comprehensively. The research represented in this volume is timely and necessary, and gestures towards the need for future research. This volume provides a multitude of starting points for thoughtful interrogation and presents a visible map towards future research
Leadership in a Start-Up: Thought leadership, leading people and propagating entrepreneurial mindsets
Full text linkThis article presents an in-depth qualitative research study of nine entrepreneurs. It explores their approaches to leadership as they develop their start-ups. With reference to the processes involved in envisioning and pioneering with new products and services in new markets, entrepreneurship is found to involve thought leadership. In addition, entrepreneurship requires leading people in a way that encourages entrepreneurial mindsets throughout the new firm so as to harness talent and skills that will shape and inform the offering and the overall vision for the firm. The paper includes the development of a theoretical model that exhibits the components involved in entrepreneurial leadership in the start-up context. It also outlines implications for practice that suggest that both intrinsic and extrinsic rewards for recruits to a start-up are important. The key contributions of the research are that distribution of entrepreneurial mindsets throughout start-ups rather than traditional top-down approaches to leading, can facilitate meaningful and value-adding contributions in new entrepreneurial firms
Influencing Individual Learning through Entrepreneurial Leadership: An analysis of Iranian SMEs
Full text linkOrganisational learning has, for a long time, been one of the main focuses of management, entrepreneurship and leadership researchers and practitioners. However, studies explaining ways in which entrepreneurs influence and direct individual learning in SMEs are still lacking. Thus, with this exploratory study we focus on entrepreneurs in Iran and we develop an in-depth understanding of their methods for leading and shaping the learning processes of individuals in their SMEs. We combine the concepts of entrepreneurial leadership, personal construct and organisational learning to explain the learning architecture(s) the entrepreneurs established in their SMEs. Data for analysis is generated from a cross-sectorial sample of 25 entrepreneurs. Considering their innovative way, we utilise entrepreneurial leadership and personal construct theory for data analysis. Accordingly, we extend the concept of organisational learning by developing a comprehensive understanding of leadership of learning in SMEs. Such understanding contributes to the literature on entrepreneurial leadership and organisational learning with theoretical, practical and policy implications
The Only Option or a First Step? Entrepreneur and banker perspectives on start-up crowdfunding
Full text linkResearch in the small and medium sized enterprises (SME) crowdfunding domain has grown over the last decade. However, the implications of pursuing crowdfunding and seeking follow-up bank finance are not fully understood. Employing unique two-way insights from 22 interviews across the SME and banking sectors, this paper aims to chart and explore the capital market forces which lead entrepreneurs to pursue crowdfunding, whilst also examining the implications of selecting specific types of crowdfunding over the start-up cycle. The implications of crowdfunding for access to future bank finance are also investigated. Accordingly, this study finds that validation building plays a key role in understanding both the pursuit, and use, of crowdfunding. However, the findings also reveal that reward-based crowdfunding is unsuitable for certain types of niche ventures, leaving some start-ups with no option but to pursue equity crowdfunding. Lastly, the views of the bankers in this study adhere to pecking order logic, with bankers arguing that crowdfunding is seen as a last resort of sorts and diverse ownership structures in equity crowdfunding make it difficult to evaluate a venture. However, the banks argued that entrepreneurs can pursue crowdfunding to build market validation and return to banks at a later stage once the venture has generated revenue
Announcement: 2024 Brendan Walsh Prize
Full text linkAnnouncement: 2024 Brendan Walsh PrizeThe 2024 Brendan Walsh Prize has been awarded to Karina Doorley (Economic and Social Research Institute), Dora Tuda (Economic and Social Research Institute), Alyvia McTague (Universitat de Barcelona), and Mark Regan (Parliamentary Budget Office, Ireland) for their paper “Childcare in Ireland: Usage, Affordability and Incentives to Work”. The Brendan Walsh Prize was inaugurated in 2018 to select the best paper published in The Economic and Social Review in the previous year. The prize includes €1,000 and a certificate. The selection was made by the following sub-committee of theEconomic and Social Studies Council: Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast), Paul Devereux (University College Dublin), and Darragh Flannery (University of Limerick)
Identifying the Role of the Entrepreneurial Leader in Times of Crisis
Full text linkThe COVID-19 pandemic brought significant changes and challenges to the entrepreneurial leaders of small businesses across the world. Notwithstanding the significant body of research in crisis leadership, there is little known about the behaviours of small firm entrepreneurial leaders. Adopting a role identity perspective, the empirical data from this international qualitative study offers a first-hand and real-time account of entrepreneurial leader role-related behaviours in crisis. Drawing upon the evidence from 30 small business entrepreneurs and 4 business support organisations, analysis of the data confirmed the centrality and breadth of responsibility held by the entrepreneurial leaders of small firms, and identified three multifaceted and interchangeable roles adopted by them in the crisis — the CEO leader, the Learner leader, and the Nurturer leader