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Keane, E., Heinz, M. and Mc Daid, R. (Eds.) (2023) Diversifying the teaching profession: Dimensions, dilemmas and directions for the future, London: Routledge
Introduction Our book on diversifying the teaching profession (2023) brings together 19 chapters as part of the Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity series. Section I includes the introductory… | Read on »
Irish in Italy: confluence and influence
Despite a chequered history of conflict, cultural interchange has always been Europe’s defining feature. Until the recent arrival of the accurate genetic tracing of population groups (see Stephen Leslie et… | Read on »
Incorporation, Support, Equity: Reflections on Decarbonizing Research Methods
The topic of Decarbonizing Research Methods provided the focus of two workshops (in-person/hybrid and online) on the 18th and on the 25th of November 2022, organised by Ashley Cahillane (School… | Read on »
Flor MacCarthy’s The Presidents’ Letters: An Unexpected History of Ireland
The Presidents’ Letters is back by popular demand. This time it’s in paperback and I’m delighted to be launching it for my very own paperback writer pal Flor MacCarthy. And… | Read on »
The Path to Mass Evil. Reflections on Michael Hardiman’s study of Hannah Arendt and Totalitarianism Today
There are some books which one would wish were less timely and topical than they are. And this book on the Path to Mass Evil (Routledge, 2022) is one of… | Read on »
One Hundred Years of Irish Language Policy, 1922–2022
In this article, Dr John Walsh gives an overview of his new book on a century of Irish language policy, to be published in 2022. By the late 19th century,… | Read on »
The loyalist paramilitary threat behind Northern Ireland’s crisis
Opinion: the loyalist influence on unionist parties has pushed the DUP towards disrupting any political progress in Northern Ireland Northern Ireland stumbles through yet another political crisis. After threatening to leave… | Read on »
Bean feasa agus cara dilís: An tOllamh Eolaíocht Pholaitiúil agus Socheolaíocht, Ricca Edmondson
To read Ricca’s words is an exhilarating experience. She brought extraordinary awareness, insight and depth to how sociologists may use language to acquire and communicate knowledge of the social world…. | Read on »
A Different View: Data Visualisation and Engaging Research
This article was originally published in NUI Galway’s Cois Coiribe Winter Edition 2021/22 on AI and Human Creativity, which focused on a variety of critical questions on AI, Innovation and… | Read on »
It’s Not What You Said—It’s How You Said It…
In the introduction to his new book, How Linguistics Can Help the Historian, Dr Anthony Harvey clarifies that his subject is not solely the meaning of words or their translations,… | Read on »