221 research outputs found
Lucy Munro. Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men. London: Blooms¬bury, 2020.
No full textReview of Lucy Munro\u27s Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men by Eoin Price
Lucy Munro. Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men. London: Bloomsbury, 2020. Pp 239.
No full textReview of Lucy Munro\u27s Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King’s Men by Eoin Price
Why strong leaders often end up damaging their parties in the medium term
No full textSuccessful leaders tend to be big personalities who dominate their party’s organisation, policy development, and electoral campaigns.. But does that control come with a price? Despina Alexiadou and Eoin O’Malley hypothesise that political parties will go through a period of leadership instability and electoral decline after strong leaders step down. Using a dataset with elections under party leaders in nine countries over a 25-year period, and a qualitative case study, they find some evidence for the theory
Eoin O'Duffy: A self-made hero
No full textEoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A guerrilla leader and protege of Michael Collins, he rose rapidly through the ranks of the republican movement. By 1922 he was chief of staff of the IRA, a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood's Supreme Council, and a Sinn Fein deputy in Dail Eireann. As chief of police, O'Duffy was the strongest defender of the Irish Free State, only to become, after his emergence as leader of the Blueshirt movement in 1933, the greatest threat to its survival. Increasingly drawn to international fascism, he founded Ireland's first fascist party, and led an Irish Brigade to fight under General Franco in the Spanish Civil War. O'Duffy died in wartime Dublin, a Nazi collaborator and a broken man. This study, the first biography of Eoin O'Duffy, draws on unpublished archival and personal papers to trace his journey from revolutionary republicanism to fascism. It examines the importance of cultural forces, including the legacy of the Irish-Ireland movement, Catholicism, anti-communism, and O'Duffy's ideas on sports, morality, and masculinity to explain his descent into extremism. The author peels away the public persona to reveal a complex picture of the motives which drove this extraordinary career. A crusading moralist and advocate of teetotalism who was obsessed with the need to counter public immorality and who was at the same time a closet homosexual and alcoholic, O'Duffy's remarkable life was characterized by self-aggrandisement, fantasy, and contradiction.</p
The Dearth of the Author: Philip Massinger and the Beaumont and Fletcher Folio
Get PDFIn 1647, Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson published a folio collection of unpublished works which they attributed to Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, two writers famous for their collaborations from 1606 to 1613. But in affording Beaumont a place on the title page, the publishers misattributed the volume. Scholars now accept that Beaumont had very little direct input in the collection whereas Philip Massinger, who began collaborating with Fletcher soon after Beaumont’s retirement, had a very significant, unacknowledged role in the collected plays. This essay offers the first extended discussion of why it was that Massinger was written out of this canon-defining volume. I argue first that Massinger was by many accounts a popular and vendible dramatist, whose omission from the folio had little to do with him having a poor reputation. Instead, I suggest that the reputation of the names Beaumont and Fletcher, established in the preceding decades, proved irresistible to the publishers. Furthermore, I argue that Massinger’s reputation as a distinctive solo playwright also counted against him, making it harder to apprehend him as a prolific collaborator. Next, I demonstrate how the 1647 folio participated in a process of canonization which elided Massinger’s significant collaborative contribution and discuss the distorting effect this has had on our understanding of Beaumont, Fletcher, Massinger, and playwrighting practice more broadly. I end by pointing towards some ways of rectifying the historical elision of Massinger’s collaboration with Fletcher
Supplemental material for A quasi-experimental evaluation of an intervention to increase palliative medicine referral in the emergency department
No full textSupplemental Material for A quasi-experimental evaluation of an intervention to increase palliative medicine referral in the emergency department by Eoin Tiernan, John Ryan, Mary Casey, Aine Hale, Valerie O’Reilly, Millie Devenish, Barbara Whyte, Siobhan Hollingsworth, Olga Price, Ian Callanan, Declan Walsh, Charles Normand and Peter May in Journal of Health Services Research & Policy</p
Boosting Australia’s energy productivity
Get PDFThis report argues that Australia’s poor investment in energy efficiency is costing the nation tens of billions of dollars in economic growth.SummaryEnergy efficiency is both the single most costeffective way of lowering greenhouse gas emissions, and an essential component of any strategy to reach long-term emission reduction goals. Under a limited global carbon budget, the right to produce emissions becomes a scarce and valuable resource. In this carbon-constrained world, prosperity depends on maximising ‘carbon productivity’: generating maximum value for each tonne of carbon emitted. The two main drivers of greater carbon productivity are reducing the emission intensity of energy production, and improving the efficiency of energy use.However, energy efficiency has many other benefits. Many countries are pursuing energy efficiency to achieve goals other than emissions reduction. These include boosting economic productivity, improving energy security, reducing expenditure on fuels and energy infrastructure, reducing health-damaging air pollution and developing the energy services industry.Energy efficiency is an important element of energy productivity: reducing the amount of energy required per unit of output lowers the production cost per unit. (Other factors driving energy productivity are energy prices and economic composition; see Box 1. Definitions, p. 4.) Energy efficiency is about producing the same set of products and outputs with less energy; energy productivity is about producing more outputs and products with the same amount of energy. In the face of a long-term rise in fuel and carbon prices, cutting input costs through more efficient energy use can become an important source of productivity and competitive advantage for companies. Similar benefits accrue to national economies: energy efficiency decreases spending on fuel and energy infrastructure, can suppress energy prices and stimulates economic growth.New research by Vivid Economics has found that a 1 per cent increase in the level of a country’s energy efficiency causes a 0.1 percentage point increase in the rate of economic growth per person in that year. This relationship was quantified using statistical analysis of energy and economic data from 28 diverse countries over a 30-year time period, controlled for sectoral composition, country and time-specific factors, and using energy prices and their relationship with energy efficiency. Applying this energy efficiency effect to forward projections of GDP growth for most of the sampled countries, an annual 1 per cent increase in energy efficiency would increase their combined projected 2030 GDP by 1.8 per cent over the business-as-usual forecast, resulting in approximately 11 trillion would boost world economic output by around USUS 7 trillion of investment in coal, oil and gas extraction, new power stations and energy transmission networks, and save nearly $17 trillion in fuel costs
The Future Francis Beaumont
Get PDFThis article attends to Beaumont’s recent performance and reception history, documenting a range of academic and popular responses to demonstrate the challenges and affordances of engaging with Beaumont’s plays. The first section examines several twenty-first century performances of Beaumont plays, focusing especially on the Globe’s stimulating production of The Knight of the Burning Pestle. The second section considers how Beaumont was both acknowledged and ignored in 2016, the year of his 400th anniversary. The final section suggests some avenues for further research into the performance of Beaumont’s plays
Eoin Colfer's magical fairies : the depiction of fairies in Artemis Fowl compared to folklore and other literature
No full textThe name fairy has been surrounded with mystery and excitement for as long as people have been telling stories about strange and supernatural beings. This essay endeavours to find similarities and differences in the magic and portrayal of fairies created by a present day author, Eoin Colfer, compared to the fairies of Celtic legends and Victorian beliefs. In order to fully understand the length of Colfer’s imagination his fairies will be compared to creations from a few of the fantasy genres biggest names: J.R.R Tolkien, James Barrie and William Shakespeare. In addition this essay aims to discover peculiarities and other distinguishing features in an advanced technological society living just a few kilometres below our feet, where the fairy residents do everything they can to keep mankind from knowing they exist.Validerat; 20101217 (root
<i>Miller's Anesthesia</i>, 10th edn, M.A. Gropper, L.I. Eriksson, L.A. Fleisher, N.H. Cohen, K. Leslie, O. Johnson-Akeju (Eds.), Published by Elsevier (2025), 3016 pp, 2 volumes. Price $389.99. ISBN 9780323935920
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