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Omission Highlights
No full text<p dir="ltr">Extracts from the opening night of <i>Omission</i>, created by Amber Cronin and Ciaran Frame.</p><p dir="ltr">Source: The author</p>
Interviewing Ciaran Carson
No full textCiaran Carson (1948 -) is Professor of Poetry at Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is the author of several collections of poems, including First Language, which won the 1993 T. S. Eliot Prize. He has written prose books, a book about Irish traditional music, a memoir for Belfast and also a novel, Shamrock Tea, longlisted in 2001 for the Booker Prize. His translation of Dante’s Inferno (2002) was awarded the Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize. In 2005, he published The MidnightCourt, a translation of the classic Irish text “Cúirt an Mheaán Oíche” by Brian Merriman and in 2007 he translated “The Táin” from the old Irish epic Táin Bó Cúalinghe, with great success. During the summer of 2008 Prof. Ciaran Carson agreed to be interviewed in his office at Queen’s University, Belfast, by María Graciela Adamoli and María GracielaEliggi from the National University of La Pampa, Argentina who were interested in his work as poet as well as translator
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Uncovering the Guest Journey through Mobile Research
Get PDFCiaran Acford is the Manager of Research at Rocky Mountaineer, a role which covers extensive research to evaluate the guest experience. Previous to this role he spent over four years working for Ipsos in London and Mexico City, focusing primarily on innovation and consumer understanding research.Qualitative Research Methods Workshop - Research PapersIn 2017 the author implemented a mobile diary research project in order to establish a closer connection to the guest experience. This is an excellent example of the use of innovative technology in the tourism industry. The challenge for authors organization is that the current quantitative guest satisfaction survey provides an excellent mechanism for evaluating performance, within a defined framework, but it doesn’t successfully paint a picture of what the experience looks like form a guest perspective. Through the application of this mobile diary research project, guests could define what for them were the most important moments of the journey and capture what they looked like through uploads of photos and videos. The project successfully uncovered new insights about the guest experience, articulated through rich media content, whilst also confirming some long-held hypotheses. It has been shared widely across the business, with several future use cases already identified
Nitrocellulose and Nanomaterials: Graphene-based High Performance Propellants
No full textPoster presented at the 2017 Defence and Security Doctoral Symposium.The superior strength, mechanical, thermal and electrical properties of graphene has attracted significant attention from the Defence community, including the Ministry of Defence and the European Defence Agency. This PhD programme seeks to investigate the fundamental chemical interactions of graphene with nitrate esters in order to identify its suitability for future application in energetic materials. It is envisaged that this will be conducted by applying various spectroscopic (IR, RAMAN, NMR), thermal (DSC, TGA) and mechanical (DMA) techniques. Achieving such an understanding of this chemistry will not only fill gaps in the knowledge pertaining to currently used ballistic modifiers, but also provide exploitable data for future rocket and gunnery weapons developments.Defence Equipment and Support and Defence Ordnance Safety Grou
A City of the Mind: Ciaran Carson's Belfast
No full textIn Northern Irish contemporary literature, Belfast is the centre of sectarian violence and hatred, and is one of the most dangerous cities of the whole English-speaking world.
In Ciaran Carson’s writings, Belfast has a dream-like quality: it is the shape-shifting city that has to reinvent its own geography day after day, partially because it was a war zone during the ‘Troubles’, but also because of the duplicity of the city’s nature. Belfast is a city that had to accommodate new industries and businesses, and thus continuously changed without logic into something different by encompassing everything that was wrong and rotten in the country during the Eighties. For this reason, Belfast can be represented by both the labyrinth and the map, which symbolise its continuous morphing into something different, and convey a sense of entrapment. Carson’s exploration of Belfast is defined by these antithetical concepts of metamorphosis and enclosure.
The essay analyses some of Carson’s poems, focussing on the difference between Carson’s imagery and the romantic nationalist forms as well as the rural world of the Irish tradition. Carson’s concern with language is also taken into consideration, since through language and the choice of a native imagery and a technical innovation, the author overtly discredits the English dominance and dismisses English culture as central
Dataset for Paper: Cellulose Acetate Microbeads for Controlled Delivery of Essential Micronutrients
No full textThe use of biodegradable materials to control the delivery of micronutrients to soil and plants has been explored, as it is an essential element in increasing agricultural yields. In this work, we developed a novel and efficient way to prepare biodegradable cellulose acetate beads containing zinc for use as controlled release fertilizers. Experimental work covered includes particle sizing, SEM imagery and ICP-OES to determine zinc release rates from beads.
Data in this dataset will include excel files, 3D models, and imagery.Data collection features data collected using optical microscopy, ICP-OES, soil characterization data, bead particle size analysis and metal characterization.AvizoFire V8 for X-ray CT imagery. Microsoft excel for data analysis
Commodity terms of trade as a foreign exchange pairs trading signal
Get PDFThis paper analyses the usefulness of commodity terms of trade as a trading signal in a
universe of advanced and emerging market currencies. Three variations of the strategy were
tested; one which traded long and short positions, one only long positions and one only short
positions. All were found to generate statistically significant alpha in out-of-sample testing.
This paper contributes to the literature as it provides evidence that the uncovered interest rate
parity condition does not always hold, as well as providing examples of how commodity
terms of trade can be used as a trading signal to exploit these deviations
Progress and Distress on the Stratford Estate in Clare during the Eighteen Forties
Get PDFIn the late 1980s and early 1990s, the author acquired about 30,000 letters written mainly in the 1840s. These pertained to estates throughout Ireland managed by James Robert Stewart and Joseph Kincaid, hereafter denoted SK. Until the letters - called the SK correspondence in what follows - became the author’s property, they had not seen light of day since the 1840s. Addressed mainly to the SK office in Dublin, they were written mainly by landlords, tenants, the partners in SK, local agents, etc. After about 200 years in operation as a land agency, the firm in which members of the Stewart family were the principal partners - Messrs J. R. Stewart & Son(s) from the mid-1880s onwards -- ceased business in the mid-1980s. Since 1994 the author has been researching the SK correspondence of the 1840s. It gives many new insights into economic and social conditions in Ireland during the decade of the great famine, and into the operation of Ireland’s most important land agency during those years. It is intended ultimately to publish details on several of the estates managed by SK in book form. The proposed title is Landlords, Tenants, Famine: Business of an Irish Land Agency in the 1840s, a draft of which has now been completed. A majority of the letters in the larger study from which the present article is drawn are on themes some of which one might expect - rents, distraint (seizure of assets in lieu of rent) ; ‘voluntary’ surrender of land in return for ‘compensation’ upon peacefully quitting; formal ejectment (a matter of last resort on estates managed by SK); landlord-assisted emigration (on a scale much more extensive than most historians of Ireland in the 1840s appear to believe); petitions from tenants; complaints by tenants, both about other tenants and local agents; major works of improvement (on almost all of the estates managed by SK); applications by SK, on behalf of proprietors, for government loans to finance improvements; recommendations of agricultural advisers hired by SK, ete. Thus, most of the SK correspondence is about aspects of estate management. It seems, in the 1840s, that the only estate in Clare managed by SK was that of the elderly Col. Stratford. Although the files on the relatively small Stratford estate are much less extensive than those on some of the estates investigated in detail in the draft of Landlords, Tenants, Famine, they do refer to most of the core aspects of estate management mentioned above. But in the case of the Clare estate, the material on some of those themes is extremely thin.
Kite Tales
No full text“For me, the joy of kiting lies in that fine sense of extension, in the fact that you have, almost literally, a hand reaching into the sky.” – Wyatt Brummit, author of Kites, 1971
The sight of multiple colourful kites can be breathtaking, and in some of our cultures they can symbolise the connection between the living and loved ones who have passed on.
Across ‘KITE TALES’ Giles King and Ciaran Clarke held space and created acts of remembrance, reflection and recreation with kites. Across a series of kite-building workshops — as well as conversations centred around life and death — this project looked to the skies, reimagining death rituals, connecting our kites with memories, the living, and the spirit world through engagement with these who have lost loved ones. This engagement took place via death cafes as well as facilitated, recorded conversations across the kite-building workshops.
The project culminated in a celebratory event at Mount Pleasant Ecological Park near Porthtowan. The visual and sound event saw 100’s of kites soaring into the sky above Cornwall, creating a beautiful spectacle of people coming together in celebration of life
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