232 research outputs found
May McCann, Seamas O Siochain & Joseph Ruane, eds : Irish Travellers, Culture and Ethnicity
No full textBrihault Jean. May McCann, Seamas O Siochain & Joseph Ruane, eds : Irish Travellers, Culture and Ethnicity. In: Études irlandaises, n°20-2, 1995. p. 172
A changed Irish nationalism? The significance of the Good Friday Agreement of 1998
No full textNot applicablePublisher's descriptionhttp://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?K=9781900621427&sf1=kword_index&st1=Europe%27s+Old+States+in+The+New+World+Order&x=0&y=0&m=1&dc=1Link to publisher edition -http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?K=9781900621427&sf1=kword_index&st1=Europe%27s+Old+States+in+The+New+World+Order&x=0&y=0&m=1&dc=1. DG 08/07/10 au ed ke SB. 26/8/1
Protestant minorities in European states and nations
No full textEurope’s traditional ethnic minorities and the conflicts over their place in the state and nation are the focus of continuing comparative research. In contrast, little attention is paid to Europe’s older religious conflicts, in particular those that stem from the reformation. Yet for long religiously informed conflict was the principal source of internal state division and the major perceived threat to state stability and security. This paper looks at the institutional changes and cultural renegotiations which allowed traditional religious oppositions, rivalries and conflicts to fade in most contemporary European societies. It concludes that neither modernisation, democratisation nor secularisation were enough to resolve deep-set tensions. The long-term resolutions involved a restructuring of polity and nation in a way consistent with minority, as well as majority culture. In the past – as perhaps also in the present - such opportunities were rare and demanded choice, strategy and political fortune.Not applicableti SB. 28/7/1
Theorising the transition: Longue durée and current conjuncture in centre-periphery relations in Britain, France and Spain
No full textContemporary social theorists argue that we are at a moment of profound cultural and historical transition. This is conceived variously as a shift from modernity to reflexive modernity, from modernity to post- modernity, from the Westphalian system of nation-states to a global order, from the ‘Modern Age’ to the ‘Global Age’. The substantive arguments include the claim that the nation-state is in crisis as power is devolved upwards to international bodies and downwards to regions, that borders are dissolving and ‘societies’ are turning into multiple, spatially-extensive, open-ended networks, that social structures are ‘liquifying’ and cultures fragmenting. Is contemporary change really so far-reaching? Not everyone is so convinced
Stegonotus iridis Ruane 2017
No full text<i>Stegonotus iridis</i> Ruane <i>et al</i>., 2017:8 <p> <b>Taxonomic status.</b> Valid.</p> <p> <b>Synonyms.</b> None.</p> <p> <b>Original name.</b> <i>Stegonotus iridis</i> Ruane <i>et al</i>., 2017:8. The species epithet comes from the Latin for rainbow, in reference to “the high level of iridescence shown both dorsally and ventrally by this species.” The species description was presented in English.</p> <p> <b>Type specimens.</b> Holotype: MZB Ophi.3306 (Fig. 31 A–E; Ruane <i>et al</i>. 2017: Fig. 5), an adult male (Table 1). Paratypes: SAMA R70466, an adult male. MZB Ophi.3305 (Fig. 31 L–N), an adult male. MZB Ophi.3303 (Fig. 31 I–K), listed as possibly female. MZB Ophi.3311, an adult male. MZB Ophi.3302 (Fig. 31 F–H), an adult male.</p> <p> <b>Type localities.</b> All type specimens were collected in Raja Ampat Regency, West Papua Province, Indonesia. Holotype: Warinkabom, Batanta Island, elev. 50 m (ca. 0.8369°S, 130.72°E). Paratypes: SAMA R70466, Waire Camp, Batanta Island, elev. 25 m (ca. 0.8397°S, 130.53°E); MZB Ophi. 3303, Yakut Camp, Batanta Island, elevation 55 m (ca. 0.8958°S, 130.64°E); MZB Ophi. 3302, 3311, Waibya, Salawati Island, elev. 75 m (ca. 0.9564°S, 130.78°E); MZB Ophi. 3305, Urbinasopen, Waigeo Island, elev. 45 m (ca. 0.3372°S, 131.26°E).</p> <p>19. The original description states that TL represents 22% of TTL in the holotype. This means that SVL represents 78%, and TL can be calculated as 221 mm. We applied the same calculation to the paratype.</p> <p> 20. This value was established right at the neck, and we confirmed this count. However, within one head length posteriorly, the number of dorsal scale rows reduces to 17. The author noted that this reduction occurred “before level of twelfth ventral.” The same generally applies to species of <i>Stegonotus</i>, with the possible exception of <i>S. muelleri</i>.</p> <p> <b>Collection.</b> All type specimens were collected by Stephen Richards (South Australian Museum, Adelaide, South Australia), Burhan Tjaturadi (Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia), and Keliopas Krey (University of Papua, Manokwari, Indonesian New Guinea) in June 2005.</p> <p> <b>Key characteristics of the type specimens.</b> (1) Holotype, MZB Ophi.3306: 713 mm SVL + 238 mm TL = 951 mm TTL. V ♂ = 201, SC ♂ = 88, SCR ♂ = 0.30, D = 17-17-15, SL E = 4+5, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = 5. (2) Paratype, SAMA R70466: 675 mm SVL + 190+ mm TL = 865+ mm TTL. V ♂ = 204, SC ♂ = O, SCR ♂ = O, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = O. (3) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3305: 790 mm SVL + 235 mm TL = 1025 mm TTL. V ♂ = 198, SC ♂ = 78, SCR ♂ = 0.28, D = O-17-O, SL E = O, SL = “8/9?”, IL = 10, IL G = O. (4) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3303: 870 mm SVL + 265+ mm TL = 1135+ mm TTL. V ? = 203, SC ? = O, SCR ? = O, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 10, IL G = O. (5) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3311: 682 mm SVL + 213 mm TL = 985 mm TTL. V ♂ = 204, SC ♂ = 85, SCR ♂ = 0.29, D = O-17-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 9, IL G = O. (6) Paratype, MZB Ophi.3302: 778 mm SVL + 240 mm TL = 1018 mm TTL. V ♂ = 205, SC ♂ = 85, SCR ♂ = 0.29, D = O-19-O, SL E = O, SL = 8, IL = 9, IL G = O.</p> <p> <b>Key characteristics of the species.</b> According to their specimen list, Ruane <i>et al</i>. (2017: Appendix) included seven specimens of <i>S. iridis</i> in their analysis. Of these, three (one unsexed, 2 ♂♂) were collected on Batanta, three (3 ♂♂) on Salawati, and one male on Waigeo. Characteristics include V ♂ = 198–211 (204 ± 4.4); SC ♂ = 78–88 (84 ± 3.7); SCR ♂ = 0.29; D = 17-19-15 (n = 5, 71%) or 17-17-15 (n = 2, 29%); SL E most likely 4+5; SL = 8 (100%); IL = 9 (n = 2, 29%) or 10 (n = 5, 71%); IL G most likely 5.</p> <p> <b>Comment.</b> In their description of <i>S. iridis</i>, Ruane <i>et al</i>. (2017) listed one specimen as possibly female. For the purposes of our discussion, we considered it unsexed and omitted it from parts of the analysis where sexual dimorphism could play a role (i.e., for values of V, SC, and SCR).</p>Published as part of <i>Kaiser, Christine M., Kaiser, Hinrich & O'Shea, Mark, 2018, The taxonomic history of Indo-Papuan groundsnakes, genus Stegonotus Duméril et al., 1854 (Colubridae), with some taxonomic revisions and the designation of a neotype for S. parvus (Meyer, 1874), pp. 1-73 in Zootaxa 4512 (1)</i> on pages 54-56, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4512.1.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/2607575">http://zenodo.org/record/2607575</a>
Explaining settlement in Northern Ireland: power, perception and path dependence
No full textThis paper criticizes four typical explanations of settlement of internal conflicts, showing that they fail to give an adequate explanation of the 1998 settlement in Northern Ireland. Instead of inductively searching for recurrent proximate factors or proceeding deductively by applying general theoretical models to settlement processes, it suggests that it may be more fruitful to search for underlying path dependent processes which regulate how the factors highlighted in the other approaches function.ethnic conflict, settlement processes, path dependence, Northern Ireland, Good Friday Agreement, temporality, power stalemate
From 'a shared future' to 'cohesion, sharing and integration': an analysis of Northern Ireland's policy framework documents
No full textThe task set for the Institute for British Irish Studies, University College Dublin (IBIS) was to compare and contrast two policy documents: ‘A Shared Future: Improving Relations in Northern Ireland’ (March 2005) and the ‘Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration’ (July 2010) and to comment on significant differences between the documents in light of current international scholarship and research on issues of identity, cultural difference and social division in conflict and post-conflict situations
From \u27a shared future\u27 to \u27cohesion, sharing and integration\u27: an analysis of Northern Ireland\u27s policy framework documents
No full textThe task set for the Institute for British Irish Studies, University College Dublin (IBIS) was to compare and contrast two policy documents: ‘A Shared Future: Improving Relations in Northern Ireland’ (March 2005) and the ‘Programme for Cohesion, Sharing and Integration’ (July 2010) and to comment on significant differences between the documents in light of current international scholarship and research on issues of identity, cultural difference and social division in conflict and post-conflict situations
A politics of transition in Britain, France and Spain
No full textThe decade of the 1990s saw the beginning of a new phase of globalisation and
continuing European integration, the collapse of socialism and the triumph
of neo-liberalism, the mainstreaming of cultural postmodernism and the
intensification of identity politics. It was a period of transition in political
institutions, demands and expectations. The political discourse associated
with these changes was radical: this was a global age, hybrid, regionalist, postnationalist,
and above all 'new'. But just how radical were the political changes,
and did they signal a new convergence across European states? This book is a
study of the changing forms of the state, and in particular of changing centre-
periphery relations, in Britain, France and Spain. It analyses the character and
extent of the changes and their causes and consequences, not just territorially
but also institutionally in the area of policing. It identifies the degree of
convergence in the three states.Not applicableLink to publisher page for the book - http://www.ucdpress.ie/display.asp?K=9781900621427&sf1=kword_index&st1=Europe%27s+Old+States+in+The+New+World+Order&x=0&y=0&m=1&dc=1. DG 08/07/10
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