Community, difference and identity : The case of the Irish in Sheffield
The article analyses emerging collective identity formations in an invisible minority ethnic group. It is based upon focus groups and in-depth interviews with Irishpeople in Sheffield. The concept of community is central to an Irish collective
identity, but is negotiated in a multiplicity of ways. Irish collective identity has been shaped by shared experiences of non-recognition and stereotyping. There is a simultaneous assertion of an Irish identity running parallel with a perception
that the traditional Irish community may have to re-invent itself.
Imperial spaces : placing the Irish and Scots in colonial Australia
Australia ; Colonization ; Diaspora ; Geographical thought ; Historical geography ; Imperialism ; Irishpeople ; Place ; Scots ; Settlement ; Transnationalism
. Using information contained in letters and diaries, and in records of collective activities, it examines constructions of place imagined by Irish and Scottish emigrants during their outward voyages to Australia, as well as the subsequent processes
This borough of New York City has long been an important center for immigrants to the USA. Its history has been one of ethnic succession, e.g. Germans and Irish were displaced by Scandinavians and Italians in the late nineteenth century. Jews
immigrants far outnumber people of European origin among the more than two million inhabitants. - (DWG)
Big Game extinction caused by late Pleistocene climatic change: Irish Elk (Megaloceros giganteus) in Ireland
Megaloceros giganteus, the largest Eurasian deer, inhabited Ireland from ca. 12,000 yr B.P. to the time ofits extinction ca. 10.600 yr B.P. The archaeologic record documents that people arrived on the island no earlier than 9000 yr B.P. so
The World Health Organisation (WHO) predicts that, world-wide, depression will be the second largest source of burden of disease by 2020. It is currently estimated that approximately 300,000 Irishpeople experience depression. This paper aims
with depression at the sub-national level. The policy implications of these results are discussed in relation to both the health care literature and current Irish health care policy.
This paper explores how the problem of sustainability in the childcare sector is being addressed through a neoliberal development rationale. Focusing on the Irish childcare sector and the childcare funding programme introduced in 2006
[b1] Aisling Gallagher School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey Univ., Palmerston North, Nouvelle-Zelande
People as landmarks : the geographic identities of Faeroe Islanders
Human survival on the Faeroe Islands has required an intimate knowledge of the landscape. This has influenced islanders to attach personal identities to their local environs. People take on geographic names as their own name. Some people even
Cities and elderly people: recent population and distributional trends
Elderly people ; Great Britain ; Population ageing ; Residential location ; Retired people ; Social change ; United Kingdom ; Urban population ; Way of life