151 research outputs found
Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland
No full textCurtin Chris, Varley Tony. Take your partners and face the music : the State, community groups and area-based partnerships in rural Ireland. In: Études irlandaises, Hors-Série 1997. L'Irlande : identités et modernité. pp. 141-155
Cromwell Varley FRS, electrical discharge and Victorian spiritualism
No full textThis is a preprint version of an article published in Notes and Records of the Royal Society. The definitive version is available at: http://publishing.royalsociety.org/index.cfm?page=1083Cromwell Fleetwood Varley is chiefly remembered as a leading Victorian electrical engineer who was closely involved in the testing and laying of the successful transatlantic telegraph cables of the 1860s. Historians of physics principally regard him as a key figure in the 'prehistory' of the electron because in 1871 the Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper in which he seemed to anticipate the corpuscular nature of cathode rays. For many Victorians, however, Varley was as notable for his spiritualism as for his electrical researches. This paper argues that for Varley spiritualism was one of the most significant contexts of use for the 1871 paper. The latter work sought explicitly to unravel the mystery of the electrical discharge through rarefied gases but also showed the hazy boundary between the invisible and visible and material and immaterial domains. This suggested that one of the invisible powers associated with spiritualism—the 'od' force—might be photographed and rendered scientifically more credible, and also made it easier to understand how imponderable spirits could have apparently material attributes. Although the physical implications of Varley’s 1871 publication were not explored until the 1890s, Varley's 'spiritualistic' uses of it shaped the way in which some late-Victorian scientists investigated the puzzling phenomena of psychical research
[Review] Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball (2001) Family and community in Ireland
No full textReview article: Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball. Family and Community in Ireland. (Third edition, with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, and Tony Varley.
[Review] Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball (2001) Family and community in Ireland
No full textReview article: Conrad M. Arensberg and Solon T. Kimball. Family and Community in Ireland. (Third edition, with a new introduction by Anne Byrne, Ricca Edmondson, and Tony Varley.
Regional development in minority language territories: state policies, structures and interventions in the Irish Gaeltacht
No full textThe primary aim of this thesis was to critically assess the capacity of the state to conceptualise and implement policies in support of the sustainable development of the Gaeltacht, and to do so through an integrated spatial model of development which is capable of stabilising and reinforcing processes of minority language reproduction.
The central empirical focus examined the extent to which Irish state policy relating to Gaeltacht development has been successful when critiqued against stated policy objectives. Semi-structured interviews were used to elicit the views of a cross-section of elite participants drawn from the Public/Political, the Administrative/Executive, and the Policy Analysis/Academic domains.
Findings from the data argue that the statutory Gaeltacht demarcation has a very limited and poorly articulated functionality in administrative and planning terms. The conceptualisation of the Gaeltacht as a development district has not been ‘embedded’, legitimised, let alone mainstreamed, within the public governance, development or institutional structures across the state system.
The data identify the state’s failure (in the sense of a coherent, systems-wide response) to engage with the structural conditions underpinning the process of language shift and community dislocation within the Gaeltacht. There is a need for an overhaul of the Gaeltacht development model. A new and differentiated integrated spatial model must incorporate, along with economic measures, broader development priorities incorporating structural/sectoral, demographic and sociolinguistic dimensions. The twin concepts of Prior Ideological Clarification and Linguistic Return on Investment need to become foundational constructs underpinning a new approach to Gaeltacht Development Policy (GDP).
Future GDP must establish, both spatially and structurally, an integrated state-wide strategy which will ensure mutually reinforcing measures for development across the planning and governance continuum. It must be subordinated to a compelling and implacable sociolinguistic imperative which will set out the specific and differentiated terms of the policy challenge for the Gaeltacht.2019-06-2
Decentring the Irish Land War: Women, politics and the private sphere
No full textIn historical accounts of Ireland in which the political is defined purely in terms of that which directly affects the state, and historical change is believed to be powered by these narrowly defined political forces, women, who were for the most part excluded from formal male political culture, tend to be assigned a marginal role. State-centred histories, in other words, are invariably patriarchal histories. One of the means employed to counteract this marginalization is to seek out examples of ‘exceptional’ women who did operate in the arena of the state, or close to it, and focus attention on them. While scholarship of this kind reminds us of the impressive contribution that women like Constance Markievicz made to Irish society, it fails to challenge the values and structures of the historiography it is supplementing. In this chapter, I demonstrate, with reference to women and agrarian unrest in the 1880s land agitation, that an historical framework which decentres familiar notions of power and the political is the most effective way to bring women in from the margins of Irish history. Relocating the ‘front’ of the Land War from the public sphere of organized politics to the civil domain of everyday life reveals the centrality of women to this episode in Irish history
New Generation Coatings for Metals
No full textIn recent decades, there have been extensive developments in science and technology. These advances provide new techniques to deposit coatings onto various substrates, thus, addressing the ever-increasing performance requirements of various applications. Moreover, as technology itself develops, there are new problems that require new solutions, some of which can be solved through the application of coatings. Thus, the demands from coatings are continually increasing and the field is growing. The collection of articles contained within this volume cover a wide range of different research approaches to coatings reflecting the expanding field of coatings. It covers examples from topics such as a cold spray of magnesium alloys onto steel substrates, mechanical coatings of Ti-based materials onto steel balls, electroless plating of Ni-P coating onto an Mg-based alloy, magnetron sputtering of Ru-Zr coatings onto a Si wafer, a review of ionic liquids that form surface layers, as corrosion inhibitors, nano-composite epoxy coatings containing exfoliated clay (montmorillonite) for steel protection, a coating based on plasma electrolytic oxidation of an aluminum alloy and inhibited epoxy primer for aerospace aluminum alloys. This volume provides a wide-angle snapshot of current coating technologies through the presentation of some specific studies
The ruling trinity transformed: negotiating power and local leadership in Ireland
No full textThis thesis examines power relations in the political, economic and religious spheres in local society in Ireland, so as to assess the contribution being made by a local leadership to a contemporary Irish social power order. The contemporary evidence gathered as part of a case study approach is compared to the configuration of a dominant class leadership extant in the 1970s and associated with a historically privileged Catholic-nationalism described by Chris Eipper (1986). Representing class society as a field of force in his work, Eipper argued that an interdependent ruling bloc at the local and national levels, structured between the economic, religious and political spheres, critically reproduced the ordering logics of an Irish class system (1986, p.3). Based on his local fieldwork in Bantry, Co. Cork, Eipper concluded that in the event of a deconstruction of the ideological and material bases upon which the Irish power system he identified depended, the dominant pattern of leadership would be reshaped, if not dismantled. Two such potential resolutions were an end to the Northern Ireland conflict and an increased co-ordination by the European Union.
The research undertaken for this study firstly finds that a transformed local leadership matters, contrasting with hypotheses both of the hegemonic effects of the international economy in Ireland since the late 1980s and of assumptions implying the unimportance of local power dynamics in this context. In the case studied, the contemporary pattern of local leadership and power observed is rooted in the continuing social salience of personalistic power relations. Where collective decision-making provided a novel source of social power in local society, I found variable outcomes for the local influence of individual members of the ruling bloc and indeed, changes within the bloc itself. Nonetheless, the structural pattern of leadership altered only as much as was permitted by a translation of these observed changes in a broader lived experience of Irish power relations and that remained culturally valid. In sum, the local version of the ruling bloc successfully reinforced its interests by means of novel forms of governance. Since negotiation via collective action at the local level represented a novel structural arrangement of personal power relations in this case, I concluded that changing material and ideological factors in Ireland have not yet supplanted the dominant Irish social power system prevailing since the post-colonial era, even if they have altered the mode of authority available to a contemporary local leadership. 2021-05-1
A Legal Framework for Sustainable Development in Rural Areas of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
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