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Northern Ireland: Disability Sport in a Shared Space
This chapter will provide an in-depth view of sport for people with disabilities in Northern Ireland from policy to practice levels. The predominant...
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Material Dissonances in the Post-Conflict City: Re-Presencing Social Injustice in Belfast, Northern Ireland
The city of Belfast in Northern Ireland has been made and remade through cycles of violence during its 400-year “history.” The most recent...
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The Evolution of Academic Selection in Northern Ireland
Almost all countries throughout the world have in place various means of academically sorting students that in most cases occurs at the higher...
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Partners in prevention: the role of health systems in the prevention of youth violence in post-conflict Northern Ireland
Interpersonal violence is a wicked and complex issue with youth disproportionately affected. Its effects are multifaceted, placing an additional...
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Ireland
This chapter provides an in-depth view of sport for people living with disability in the Republic of Ireland, from policy to practice levels. Current...
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Exposure to the troubles in Northern Ireland, memory functioning, and social activity engagement: results from NICOLA
We investigated the potential impact of a cohort traumatic exposure, the Troubles in Northern Ireland, on memory functioning in later life, and the...
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Rethinking Transnational Care: The Nature of Nurture Among Indian Families in Belfast, Northern Ireland
This chapter elucidates on the caring practices within the Indian migrant community in Northern Ireland (UK). It is based on ethnographic study of...
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Mainstreaming Climate Change Adaptation into Planning and Development: A Case Study in Northern Ireland
This study outlines the adaptation planning journey undertaken by Derry City and Strabane District Council (DCSDC) in Northern Ireland and reflects...
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Ireland
Ireland is a small, relatively young country in the West of Europe with approximately 5 million people (CSO, Census of Population 2022—Preliminary...
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Making a case for rights of public access in Ireland: a multifunctional approach
The availability of waymarked trails in Ireland has been a remarkable success story for advocates of outdoor recreation. Yet, there is little legal...
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LGBT+ Self-Identification Among Youth in Ireland Aged 17-18 Years: A Research Brief
In 2016, for the first time, a nationally representative survey of 6216 respondents, Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), included measurement of sexual...
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Moving Through Ireland: Narratives of Polish Multiple Migrants
While many accounts of migration focus on settlement in the destination, this chapter analyses the narratives of Polish multiple migrants moving...
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Post-medieval Ship Graffiti on the North Coast of Ireland
The generation of boat and ship imagery in the form of graffiti has long precedents internationally. Such imagery carries with it a range of...
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Translating Topographies: Brian Friel’s Approach to Language, Landscape, and Toponymy in Ireland
Brian Friel’s play Translations takes place in 1833 and is set in a “Hedge School” near the village of Baile Beag, in Donegal, in Ulster during the...
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Becoming in Ireland? An Autobiographical Story of a ‘1.5 Generation’ Child
This chapter presents the story of Mikołaj, who moved to Ireland from Poland at the age of four in the late 2000s. Written from his perspective, it...
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“They never self-identify”: Victims of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation, the Island of Ireland
Official statistics for trafficking in human beings (THB) for sexual exploitation in Ireland and Northern Ireland are conservative. It is likely that...
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Neighbourhood-level analysis of the socio-spatial context of business crime in Northern Ireland
The repercussions of crime on businesses can be very significant. It can deter investment and frustrate business growth. Crimes result in higher...
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‘I part not from effeminacy’: Queer Behaviour in Gaelic Ireland
Despite Ireland’s reputation until recently as being sexually conservative and repressive, in fact this country has a long-documented history of what...
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Social Work, Political Conflict and European Society: Reflections from Northern Ireland
This chapter will explore the role of social workers in dealing with the political conflict in Northern Ireland and how this understanding can be...