Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the succ...Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the success of the peace process.The presence of an immigrant character and modern communication devices in the traditional Irish pub setting signifies a new phase of Northern Irish society following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.However,the tense and fragmented conversation between the protagonists,along with their sense of disorientation,reveals the persistence of sectarian divisions and the paralysis of everyday life,which,in turn,reinforce narrow conceptions of identity and lead to the ongoing cycle of violence.By bringing the two protagonists together to confront their past and jointly recount the most devastating day of their lives under the witness of a third party,McCafferty presents the possibility of transcending decades of division at the everyday level,suggesting that true peace requires not only political agreements but also open dialogue between opposing sides and a renewal of values through the enrichment of individual lived experiences.展开更多
W.B.Yeats(1865-1939),Noble Prize winner for literature in 1923,is an influential Irish poet,playwright and critic.This paper will discuss that Yeats is devoted to seek and construct Irish cultural identity in his poet...W.B.Yeats(1865-1939),Noble Prize winner for literature in 1923,is an influential Irish poet,playwright and critic.This paper will discuss that Yeats is devoted to seek and construct Irish cultural identity in his poetry because of the Irish cultural and identity crisis as well as his own identity anxiety.Yeats endeavours to establish a distinctly Irish cultural identity through reviving Irish traditional folklore,myths and legends,hybridising English language,and absorbing oriental culture in his poetry.展开更多
<p align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Climate change and variability are a reality and have had marked e...<p align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Climate change and variability are a reality and have had marked effects on both human and ecological systems. Adaptation to such effects either directly or indirectly is viewed as a novel way of reducing the spread of the associated risks. The study was conducted in Rubanda District with a general aim of evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation measures to climate variability used </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">by smallholder Irish potatoes farmers. Specifically, we sought to appraise</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> small</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">holder Irish potato farmers’ perceptions about the effectiveness of climate variability adaptation measures and implications on Irish potato productivity. We undertook a cross-sectional study to collect data from total of 197 farmers using a structured questionnaire. Other participatory methods such as focus group discussions and key informant interview were also used to complement the household survey. Data w</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ere</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> analyzed using SPSS Version 23 to generate descriptive statistics as well as relationships between the adaptation measures and the productivity of the Irish potatoes using a Cobb-Douglas production function. The Cobb-Douglas model revealed that the use of fertilizers was significantly and positively associated with productivity of Irish potato (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">P </span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">< 0.001). Furthermore, Smallholder Irish potato farmers perceived the use of technology, terracing, early planting and application of fertilizers as the most effective climate variability adaptation measures. The study recommends that measures that are cost-effective, efficient and coherent should be promoted to offset the impacts of climate variability which would include the adoption of improved potato varieties and use of fertilizers with proper management of erosion. Off-season planting of Irish potatoes in the wetlands should be discouraged by the local administration and the National Environment Management Authority. This calls for a collective action involving the agricultural practitioners and inline civil society organizations to ensure that farmers have access to such inputs.</span></span></span></span> </p>展开更多
Rising costs of production and the need for capital investment in the public water supply network in Ireland, has placed a strong emphasis on the need for water conservation and tackling the current high levels of lea...Rising costs of production and the need for capital investment in the public water supply network in Ireland, has placed a strong emphasis on the need for water conservation and tackling the current high levels of leakage (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, 2015) [1]. Consequently, Irish Water which is Ireland’s national water utility has had to consider various business models and supply frameworks to demonstrate value for money. This has included those successfully implemented by Scottish Water. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare both national utility providers in terms of structure and financial performance. The results of this study showed that both utility providers differed significantly. The Utility has, indeed, tried to achieve “too much too soon” (O’Leary, 2018 [2];Donegal Now, 2016) [3]. Therefore, the initial results of this study suggest that, continuing to consider Scottish Water as the benchmark may generate unrealistic targets and expectations which in all probability may not be achieved.展开更多
Martin McDonagh,a descendant of Irish,is engaged in the creation of dramatic works in the UK,and his unique growth experience has a profound influence on his dramatic works.His first play,The Beauty Queen of Leenane,e...Martin McDonagh,a descendant of Irish,is engaged in the creation of dramatic works in the UK,and his unique growth experience has a profound influence on his dramatic works.His first play,The Beauty Queen of Leenane,explores the ambivalence status of characters,embodies the vague time image,the rewriting of the Irish western pastoral and the hybrid language of English and Irish,which is the embodiment of McDonagh’s dual national identity and his rewriting of the Irish national identity.展开更多
Director Neil Jordan＇s 2013 film Byzantium is a vampire narrative with a female empowerment theme that attains the status of Irish neomyth. Although much of the story takes place in England, the vampires originate in...Director Neil Jordan＇s 2013 film Byzantium is a vampire narrative with a female empowerment theme that attains the status of Irish neomyth. Although much of the story takes place in England, the vampires originate in southwest Ireland, recognizable in filming locations and from historical allusions, Catholic religious references, Gaelic speech acts, traditional Irish songs, imagery from Celtic mythology, and a title that invokes a relevant Yeats poem with the title ＂Byzantium.＂ Such references to Irish culture elevate the supernatural mother-daughter protagonists to modem mythic status in their centuries-long conflict with an Ireland-based, patriarchal vampire Brotherhood.展开更多
Emissions of gases from industrial activities and even from agriculture activities and from soil as releasing of nitrogen from soils to atmosphere have been increasing steadily therefore, acid rain is the concern thro...Emissions of gases from industrial activities and even from agriculture activities and from soil as releasing of nitrogen from soils to atmosphere have been increasing steadily therefore, acid rain is the concern throughout the world. The hill field at the UCD research farm was chosen as the representative of good versatile, on which moderate to intensive farming is practised in the drier rainfall areas of Ireland. Nutrient contents in rainfall water samples were measurable, although the site of rainfall sample collection is located in the east of the country far away from the Atlantic Ocean. TDP （total dissolve phosphorus） concentrations in rainwater samples were very low. While DRP （dissolve reactive phosphorus） is the main component in some samples, the DUP （dissolve unreactive phosphorus） is dominant in others. DRP values accounted for less than 50% of dissolved phosphorus in rainfall. Sodium （Na） and Chloride （CI） ions had the highest concentration value, because most of Irish rain originates from the Atlantic Ocean. Nitrate （NO3） had the highest value 15.2 lag.mLl but it associated only with mineral fertiliser spreading time.展开更多
After a long period of obsolescence,the Irish border issue has reemerged in the context of Brexit,and any solution will affect not only the UK’s national unity,but also the Northern Ireland peace process and UK-EU ec...After a long period of obsolescence,the Irish border issue has reemerged in the context of Brexit,and any solution will affect not only the UK’s national unity,but also the Northern Ireland peace process and UK-EU economic and trade relations.Back-and-forth negotiations brought about the Draft Withdrawal Agreement,which included the"backstop"arrangement for the Irish border.This agreement soon suffered strong opposition in the UK Parliament,while the EU refused to make any substantive concessions.Trapping Brexit into the"Britain-drag",the Irish border issue has become Brexit’s bottleneck.While the border issue carries sensitivity and complexity in itself,another even more important reason that is so significant is that it has become clear that the UK and the EU are not on the same track when it comes to interest defining and policy selection,never mind the tangled mentalities of Brexit.The Brexit dilemma,when combined with the Irish border issue,has cast a spotlight on the West’s political and social fragmentation,as well as the dysfunction of its parliamentary democracy.No matter how the withdrawal deal is settled in the future,the UK and the EU are likely to be persecuted by the Irish border issue for a long time to come.展开更多
Using Sabina J.Mtiller's theory of myth,this paper will analyze the deconstruction and revision of myths in The Green Helmet.Irish mythology,as described by M^iller,has in its inheritance a myth of Ireland being p...Using Sabina J.Mtiller's theory of myth,this paper will analyze the deconstruction and revision of myths in The Green Helmet.Irish mythology,as described by M^iller,has in its inheritance a myth of Ireland being personified in an image of a woman,a goddess of the land.This Ireland-as-woman image,as well as Irish heroism and their fighting spirit will be investigated in Yeats'drama to show its simplification and to mock its nature.The analysis will also give an insight into the diversified and complex image of the Irish nation.展开更多
The housing crisis in Ireland has rapidly grown in recent years. To make a more significant profit, many landlords are no longer renting out their houses under long-term tenancies but under short-term tenancies. Regul...The housing crisis in Ireland has rapidly grown in recent years. To make a more significant profit, many landlords are no longer renting out their houses under long-term tenancies but under short-term tenancies. Regulating rentals in Rent Pressure Zones with the highest and rising rents is becoming a tricky issue. In this paper, we develop a breach identifier to check short-term rentals located in Rent Pressure Zones with potential breaches only using publicly available data from Airbnb (an online marketplace focused on short-term home-stays) and Irish government websites. First, we use a Residual Neural Network to filter out outdoor landscape photos that negatively impact identifying whether an owner has multiple rentals in a Rent Pressure Zone. Second, a Siamese Neural Network is used to compare the similarity of indoor photos to determine if multiple rental posts correspond to the same residence. Next, we use the Haversine algorithm to locate short-term rentals within a circle centered on the coordinate of a permit. Short-term rentals with a permit will not be restricted. Finally, we improve the occupancy estimation model combined with sentiment analysis, which may provide higher accuracy.展开更多
President Zhou Jue of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) met with the visiting del-egation of Fianna Fail, the Republican Party of Ireland in Beijing on July 23. Headed by Ms. Mary Hanafin, Government ...President Zhou Jue of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) met with the visiting del-egation of Fianna Fail, the Republican Party of Ireland in Beijing on July 23. Headed by Ms. Mary Hanafin, Government Chief展开更多
Andrew Wangota,a 48-year-old Ugandan farmer,has been using agrivoltaics technology,a solar technology that uses agricultural land for both food production and solar power generation,on his farm in Bunashimolo Parish,B...Andrew Wangota,a 48-year-old Ugandan farmer,has been using agrivoltaics technology,a solar technology that uses agricultural land for both food production and solar power generation,on his farm in Bunashimolo Parish,Bukyiende Subcounty in Uganda where he has been cultivating plantain,coffee and Irish potatoes for the past 16 years.展开更多
Beijing celebrates St.Patrick’s Day with a range of cultural treats One of Ireland’s leading literary lights,Emma Donoghue,the author of the Booker Prize-listed Room and a star attraction of the Beijing Irish Festiv...Beijing celebrates St.Patrick’s Day with a range of cultural treats One of Ireland’s leading literary lights,Emma Donoghue,the author of the Booker Prize-listed Room and a star attraction of the Beijing Irish Festival,talking about her own sold-out part of the program,said,"It somehow combined the展开更多
On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An E...On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An Exploration of Literary Aesthetics in Yeats's Poetry”.The symposium attracted scholars,poets and cultural enthusiasts from both China and abroad.Attendees discussed the important role of the poetry of William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)in cultural exchanges,and explored the Irish bard's poetry from a cross-cultural perspective.The goal was to facilitate cultural understanding between the Chinese and Irish peoples.This year's symposium was sponsored by the Shanghai Public Relations Association and the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.展开更多
文摘Owen McCafferty’s Quietly(2012),a two-hander set in an Irish pub,explores how the Troubles continue to shape everyday life in Northern Ireland-an aspect often overlooked in official narratives that celebrate the success of the peace process.The presence of an immigrant character and modern communication devices in the traditional Irish pub setting signifies a new phase of Northern Irish society following the signing of the Good Friday Agreement.However,the tense and fragmented conversation between the protagonists,along with their sense of disorientation,reveals the persistence of sectarian divisions and the paralysis of everyday life,which,in turn,reinforce narrow conceptions of identity and lead to the ongoing cycle of violence.By bringing the two protagonists together to confront their past and jointly recount the most devastating day of their lives under the witness of a third party,McCafferty presents the possibility of transcending decades of division at the everyday level,suggesting that true peace requires not only political agreements but also open dialogue between opposing sides and a renewal of values through the enrichment of individual lived experiences.
文摘W.B.Yeats(1865-1939),Noble Prize winner for literature in 1923,is an influential Irish poet,playwright and critic.This paper will discuss that Yeats is devoted to seek and construct Irish cultural identity in his poetry because of the Irish cultural and identity crisis as well as his own identity anxiety.Yeats endeavours to establish a distinctly Irish cultural identity through reviving Irish traditional folklore,myths and legends,hybridising English language,and absorbing oriental culture in his poetry.
文摘<p align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana;"></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Climate change and variability are a reality and have had marked effects on both human and ecological systems. Adaptation to such effects either directly or indirectly is viewed as a novel way of reducing the spread of the associated risks. The study was conducted in Rubanda District with a general aim of evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation measures to climate variability used </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">by smallholder Irish potatoes farmers. Specifically, we sought to appraise</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> small</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">holder Irish potato farmers’ perceptions about the effectiveness of climate variability adaptation measures and implications on Irish potato productivity. We undertook a cross-sectional study to collect data from total of 197 farmers using a structured questionnaire. Other participatory methods such as focus group discussions and key informant interview were also used to complement the household survey. Data w</span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ere</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:'Minion Pro Capt','serif';"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> analyzed using SPSS Version 23 to generate descriptive statistics as well as relationships between the adaptation measures and the productivity of the Irish potatoes using a Cobb-Douglas production function. The Cobb-Douglas model revealed that the use of fertilizers was significantly and positively associated with productivity of Irish potato (</span><i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">P </span></i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">< 0.001). Furthermore, Smallholder Irish potato farmers perceived the use of technology, terracing, early planting and application of fertilizers as the most effective climate variability adaptation measures. The study recommends that measures that are cost-effective, efficient and coherent should be promoted to offset the impacts of climate variability which would include the adoption of improved potato varieties and use of fertilizers with proper management of erosion. Off-season planting of Irish potatoes in the wetlands should be discouraged by the local administration and the National Environment Management Authority. This calls for a collective action involving the agricultural practitioners and inline civil society organizations to ensure that farmers have access to such inputs.</span></span></span></span> </p>
文摘Rising costs of production and the need for capital investment in the public water supply network in Ireland, has placed a strong emphasis on the need for water conservation and tackling the current high levels of leakage (Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, 2015) [1]. Consequently, Irish Water which is Ireland’s national water utility has had to consider various business models and supply frameworks to demonstrate value for money. This has included those successfully implemented by Scottish Water. Therefore, the aim of this study was to compare both national utility providers in terms of structure and financial performance. The results of this study showed that both utility providers differed significantly. The Utility has, indeed, tried to achieve “too much too soon” (O’Leary, 2018 [2];Donegal Now, 2016) [3]. Therefore, the initial results of this study suggest that, continuing to consider Scottish Water as the benchmark may generate unrealistic targets and expectations which in all probability may not be achieved.
文摘Martin McDonagh,a descendant of Irish,is engaged in the creation of dramatic works in the UK,and his unique growth experience has a profound influence on his dramatic works.His first play,The Beauty Queen of Leenane,explores the ambivalence status of characters,embodies the vague time image,the rewriting of the Irish western pastoral and the hybrid language of English and Irish,which is the embodiment of McDonagh’s dual national identity and his rewriting of the Irish national identity.
文摘Director Neil Jordan＇s 2013 film Byzantium is a vampire narrative with a female empowerment theme that attains the status of Irish neomyth. Although much of the story takes place in England, the vampires originate in southwest Ireland, recognizable in filming locations and from historical allusions, Catholic religious references, Gaelic speech acts, traditional Irish songs, imagery from Celtic mythology, and a title that invokes a relevant Yeats poem with the title ＂Byzantium.＂ Such references to Irish culture elevate the supernatural mother-daughter protagonists to modem mythic status in their centuries-long conflict with an Ireland-based, patriarchal vampire Brotherhood.
文摘Emissions of gases from industrial activities and even from agriculture activities and from soil as releasing of nitrogen from soils to atmosphere have been increasing steadily therefore, acid rain is the concern throughout the world. The hill field at the UCD research farm was chosen as the representative of good versatile, on which moderate to intensive farming is practised in the drier rainfall areas of Ireland. Nutrient contents in rainfall water samples were measurable, although the site of rainfall sample collection is located in the east of the country far away from the Atlantic Ocean. TDP （total dissolve phosphorus） concentrations in rainwater samples were very low. While DRP （dissolve reactive phosphorus） is the main component in some samples, the DUP （dissolve unreactive phosphorus） is dominant in others. DRP values accounted for less than 50% of dissolved phosphorus in rainfall. Sodium （Na） and Chloride （CI） ions had the highest concentration value, because most of Irish rain originates from the Atlantic Ocean. Nitrate （NO3） had the highest value 15.2 lag.mLl but it associated only with mineral fertiliser spreading time.
文摘After a long period of obsolescence,the Irish border issue has reemerged in the context of Brexit,and any solution will affect not only the UK’s national unity,but also the Northern Ireland peace process and UK-EU economic and trade relations.Back-and-forth negotiations brought about the Draft Withdrawal Agreement,which included the"backstop"arrangement for the Irish border.This agreement soon suffered strong opposition in the UK Parliament,while the EU refused to make any substantive concessions.Trapping Brexit into the"Britain-drag",the Irish border issue has become Brexit’s bottleneck.While the border issue carries sensitivity and complexity in itself,another even more important reason that is so significant is that it has become clear that the UK and the EU are not on the same track when it comes to interest defining and policy selection,never mind the tangled mentalities of Brexit.The Brexit dilemma,when combined with the Irish border issue,has cast a spotlight on the West’s political and social fragmentation,as well as the dysfunction of its parliamentary democracy.No matter how the withdrawal deal is settled in the future,the UK and the EU are likely to be persecuted by the Irish border issue for a long time to come.
文摘Using Sabina J.Mtiller's theory of myth,this paper will analyze the deconstruction and revision of myths in The Green Helmet.Irish mythology,as described by M^iller,has in its inheritance a myth of Ireland being personified in an image of a woman,a goddess of the land.This Ireland-as-woman image,as well as Irish heroism and their fighting spirit will be investigated in Yeats'drama to show its simplification and to mock its nature.The analysis will also give an insight into the diversified and complex image of the Irish nation.
文摘The housing crisis in Ireland has rapidly grown in recent years. To make a more significant profit, many landlords are no longer renting out their houses under long-term tenancies but under short-term tenancies. Regulating rentals in Rent Pressure Zones with the highest and rising rents is becoming a tricky issue. In this paper, we develop a breach identifier to check short-term rentals located in Rent Pressure Zones with potential breaches only using publicly available data from Airbnb (an online marketplace focused on short-term home-stays) and Irish government websites. First, we use a Residual Neural Network to filter out outdoor landscape photos that negatively impact identifying whether an owner has multiple rentals in a Rent Pressure Zone. Second, a Siamese Neural Network is used to compare the similarity of indoor photos to determine if multiple rental posts correspond to the same residence. Next, we use the Haversine algorithm to locate short-term rentals within a circle centered on the coordinate of a permit. Short-term rentals with a permit will not be restricted. Finally, we improve the occupancy estimation model combined with sentiment analysis, which may provide higher accuracy.
文摘President Zhou Jue of the China Society for Human Rights Studies (CSHRS) met with the visiting del-egation of Fianna Fail, the Republican Party of Ireland in Beijing on July 23. Headed by Ms. Mary Hanafin, Government Chief
文摘Andrew Wangota,a 48-year-old Ugandan farmer,has been using agrivoltaics technology,a solar technology that uses agricultural land for both food production and solar power generation,on his farm in Bunashimolo Parish,Bukyiende Subcounty in Uganda where he has been cultivating plantain,coffee and Irish potatoes for the past 16 years.
文摘Beijing celebrates St.Patrick’s Day with a range of cultural treats One of Ireland’s leading literary lights,Emma Donoghue,the author of the Booker Prize-listed Room and a star attraction of the Beijing Irish Festival,talking about her own sold-out part of the program,said,"It somehow combined the
文摘On June 13,the Second Academic Symposium on Irish Literature(Yeats's Poetry)was held at the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.The theme of the symposium was“The Poetic Bridge in Cross-Cultural Context:An Exploration of Literary Aesthetics in Yeats's Poetry”.The symposium attracted scholars,poets and cultural enthusiasts from both China and abroad.Attendees discussed the important role of the poetry of William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)in cultural exchanges,and explored the Irish bard's poetry from a cross-cultural perspective.The goal was to facilitate cultural understanding between the Chinese and Irish peoples.This year's symposium was sponsored by the Shanghai Public Relations Association and the Consulate General of Ireland in Shanghai.
