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Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises

Entrepreneurship and Opportunity

By: Niamh Desmond

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Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises

Entrepreneurship and Opportunity

By: Niamh Desmond

Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises: Entrepreneurship and Opportunity gives readers a thorough and up-to-date insight into the networking practices of ethnic entrepreneurs in Ireland. The book provides readers with a theoretical grounding in formal and informal networking and gives a comprehensive insight into research conducted on ethnic entrepreneurship in a number of countries. The book presents a solid grounding in the fundamentals of ethnic entrepreneurship, and gives readers relevant real life examples of how ethnic entrepreneurs in Ireland engage in networking. The book also highlights the motivations and challenges the featured ethnic entrepreneurs have encountered while setting up a business in their host country, Ireland.

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170

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443823546

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9781443823548

Ireland and the Great War

A Social and Political History

By: Niamh Gallagher

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Ireland and the Great War

A Social and Political History

By: Niamh Gallagher

On 4 August 1914 following the outbreak of European hostilities, large sections of Irish Protestants and Catholics rallied to support the British and Allied war efforts. Yet less than two years later, the Easter Rising of 1916 allegedly put a stop to the Catholic commitment in exchange for a re-emphasis on the national question. In Ireland and the Great War Niamh Gallagher draws upon a formidable array of original research to offer a radical new reading of Irish involvement in the world's first total war. Exploring the 'home front' and Irish diasporic communities in Canada, Australia, and Britain, Gallagher reveals that substantial support for the Allied war effort continued largely unabated not only until November 1918, but afterwards as well. Rich in social texture and with fascinating new case studies of Irish participation in the conflict, this book has the makings of a major rethinking of Ireland's twentieth century.

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272

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786736209

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9781786736208

Rule-breakers – Why 'Being There' Trumps 'Being Fair' in Ireland

Uncovering Ireland's National Psyche

By: Niamh Hourigan

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Rule-breakers – Why 'Being There' Trumps 'Being Fair' in Ireland

Uncovering Ireland's National Psyche

By: Niamh Hourigan

Ireland is a nation on a value system that equates 'being good' with 'being there for each other'. As a society we favour 'minding our own' over 'doing what we're told'. So far, so Irish.It's become a commonplace to refer to the excesses of the Celtic Tiger years as an aberration, the product of a short-lived and inexplicable mania for cheap credit and unregulated consumption. But what if the roots of Ireland's economic crisis ran far deeper than the property boom or the hubris of the establishment elites who enabled it?In this, a ground-breaking survey of the Irish national character from its colonial history to its current day dramas, acclaimed sociologist Niamh Hourigan draws on a wealth of new and compelling research to reveal the fundamental conflict at the heart of the Irish society: that between our traditional faith in the politics of intimacy, all handshakes and favours, and the ruling systems in which we've invested power.The Ireland that emerges from her research is a country where outcomes are decided by who rather than what you know, and where – for good or for bad – rules are very much made to be broken.'Probing, perceptive and highly readable exploration of the Irish value system'J. J. Lee, New York University'Compulsively readable'Kathy Sheridan, The Irish Times'Lucid, engaging and persuasive ... every politician should read this – and so should every voter'Colin Murphy, The Guarantee

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Gill & Macmillan Ltd

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071716618X

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9780717166183

Every Dark Hour

A History of Kilmainham Jail

By: Niamh O'Sullivan

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Every Dark Hour

A History of Kilmainham Jail

By: Niamh O'Sullivan

Kilmainham Jail is perhaps the most important building in modern Irish history. A place of incarceration since its construction in the late eighteenth century, it housed a succession of petty criminals, including sheep rustlers and, during the Famine, people who committed crimes with the sole aim of being imprisoned there: even the meager rations offered at the jail were better than what was available in other parts of the country. It was a powerful symbol of British rule on the island of Ireland; its residents over the years included the bold Robert Emmet and, of course, it was also the place where the 1916 rebels were taken and executed. Every Dark Hour is a colourful and entertaining telling of the history of the jail and its colourful cast of residents over the years - as well as vivid accounts of the heroic men and women who gave freely of their time and energies to restore the jail to its former grandeur when it was on the verge of being reclaimed by the elements.

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Liberties Press

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1909718076

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9781909718074

Tastemakers and Tastemaking

Mexico and Curated Screen Violence

By: Niamh Thornton

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Tastemakers and Tastemaking

Mexico and Curated Screen Violence

By: Niamh Thornton

Tastemakers and Tastemaking develops a new approach to analyzing violence in Mexican films and television by examining the curation of violence in relation to three key moments: the decade-long centennial commemoration of the Mexican Revolution launched in 2010; the assaults and murders of women in Northern Mexico since the late 1990s; and the havoc wreaked by the illegal drug trade since the early 2000s. Niamh Thornton considers how violence is created, mediated, selected, or categorized by tastemakers, through the strategic choices made by institutions, filmmakers, actors, and critics. Challenging assumptions about whose and what kind of work merit attention and traversing normative boundaries between "good" and "bad" taste, Thornton draws attention to the role of tastemaking in both "high" and "low" media, including film cycles and festivals, adaptations of Mariano Azuela's 1915 novel, Los de Abajo, Amat Escalante's hyperrealist art films, and female stars of recent genre films and the telenovela, La reina del sur. Making extensive use of videographic criticism, Thornton pays particularly close attention to the gendered dimensions of violence, both on and off screen.

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State University of New York Press

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1438481144

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9781438481142

Aloysius O'Kelly

Art, Nation, Empire

By: Niamh O'Sullivan

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Aloysius O'Kelly

Art, Nation, Empire

By: Niamh O'Sullivan

This is a critical biography of Aloysius O'Kelly's career as a painter, illustrator and committed Fenian which uncovers a world hardly known hitherto except in the most caricatured versions.

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Field Day Publications

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0946755426

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9780946755424

Lead Your Team in Your First 100 Days

By: Niamh O'Keeffe

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Lead Your Team in Your First 100 Days

By: Niamh O'Keeffe

Shows anyone coming into a new leadership role how to position themselves as an effective leader from day one and how to gain exceptional results from their team. We all know the importance of making a strong start in a new role. Nowhere is a leader’s success or failure more obvious than in the performance of their team. This quick read will help new leaders firmly establish themselves at a time of uncertainty and generate teams who perform at their maximum. This 100-minute read is 100% practical and breaks down the 100 day period into 5 sections: @ Start @ 30 Days @ 60 Days @ 90 Days @ End It shows you the targets you should be aiming to achieve by each deadline and provides assistance at every stage on reviewing your team’s performance and planning ahead. Containing case studies, lists, coaching notes and exercises, this is the ultimate accessible guide to leading a team

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Pearson UK

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0273779184

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9780273779186

Imaging the Great Irish Famine

Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture

By: Niamh Ann Kelly

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Imaging the Great Irish Famine

Representing Dispossession in Visual Culture

By: Niamh Ann Kelly

The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we currently associate with dispossession. People across the world are driven out of their homes and countries on a wave of conflict, poverty and famine, and our main sites for engaging with their loss are visual news and social media. In a reappraisal of the viewer's role in representations of displacement, Niamh Ann Kelly examines a wide range of commemorative visual culture from the mid-nineteenth-century Great Irish Famine. Her analysis of memorial images, objects and locations from that period until the early 21st century shows how artefacts of historical trauma can affect understandings of enforced migrations as an ongoing form of political violence. This book will be of interest to students and researchers of museum and heritage studies, material culture, Irish history and contemporary visual cultures exploring dispossession.

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318

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838608729

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9781838608729

German-Irish Corporate Relationships

The Cultural Dimension

By: Niamh O'Mahony

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German-Irish Corporate Relationships

The Cultural Dimension

By: Niamh O'Mahony

The book addresses the question of whether, in an age of internationalisation and globalisation, cultural differences are still relevant to German-Irish corporate relationships? The first three chapters establish the theoretical framework for the analysis by exploring the notion of culture, profiling the business cultures of both countries, and examining existing approaches to the study of parent company-foreign subsidiary relationships. In the following three chapters, using interviews carried out with two sample groups (fifteen German parent companies and fourteen of their Irish operations; seven Irish parent companies and nine of their German operations), the parent companies in both groups are examined to see whether they demonstrate characteristics which are in keeping with their national business cultures. Their foreign operations are then analysed as is the parent company-foreign subsidiary relationship to determine whether any parent company influences are visible. The general approaches adopted by the two groups of parent companies to their foreign operations are compared and contrasted. Finally differences in national attitudes and values are identified and their impact assessed.

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Peter Lang Publishing

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0820469718

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9780820469713

The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

By: Eilís Ferran,Niamh Moloney,Jennifer G. Hill,John C. Coffee, Jr

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The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

By: Eilís Ferran,Niamh Moloney,Jennifer G. Hill,John C. Coffee, Jr

The EU and the US responded to the global financial crisis by changing the rules for the functioning of financial services and markets and by establishing new oversight bodies. With the US Dodd–Frank Act and numerous EU regulations and directives now in place, this book provides a timely and thoughtful explanation of the key elements of the new regimes in both regions, of the political processes which shaped their content and of their practical impact. Insights from areas such as economics, political science and financial history elucidate the significance of the reforms. Australia's resilience during the financial crisis, which contrasted sharply with the severe problems that were experienced in the EU and the US, is also examined. The comparison between the performances of these major economies in a period of such extreme stress tells us much about the complex regulatory and economic ecosystems of which financial markets are a part.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139851780

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9781139851787

Escaping the Global Village

Media, Language, and Protest

By: Niamh Hourigan

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Escaping the Global Village

Media, Language, and Protest

By: Niamh Hourigan

In the face of expanding global media, Europe's linguistic minorities have begun to resist the homogenizing forces of television. This book documents and analyzes the Irish campaign for an alternative Irish-language television service.

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Lexington Books

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0739109278

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Book's by Niamh Desmond

Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises

Networking in Ireland’s Ethnic Enterprises

Ireland and the Great War

Ireland and the Great War

Rule-breakers – Why 'Being There' Trumps 'Being Fair' in Ireland

Rule-breakers – Why 'Being There' Trumps 'Being Fair' in Ireland

Every Dark Hour

Every Dark Hour

Tastemakers and Tastemaking

Tastemakers and Tastemaking

Aloysius O'Kelly

Aloysius O'Kelly

Lead Your Team in Your First 100 Days

Lead Your Team in Your First 100 Days

Imaging the Great Irish Famine

Imaging the Great Irish Famine

German-Irish Corporate Relationships

German-Irish Corporate Relationships

The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

The Regulatory Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis

Escaping the Global Village

Escaping the Global Village

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