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Festivals, Social Order And Community Engagement: The Big Scream Halloween Festival, North East Inner City, Dublin, Theresa Ryan
Festivals, Social Order And Community Engagement: The Big Scream Halloween Festival, North East Inner City, Dublin, Theresa Ryan
Case Studies
This case study explores the way in which community festivals can be used to engage and unite, and address social issues in a local community. It explores 'The Big Scream' Halloween festival in North East Inner City Dublin, a festival that was created by the local county council to address anti-social behaviour during Halloween. It highlights the significant positive impact the festival has had on the local community.
Festivals, Social Order And Community Engagement: The Big Scream Halloween Festival, North East Inner City, Dublin., Theresa Ryan Dr
Festivals, Social Order And Community Engagement: The Big Scream Halloween Festival, North East Inner City, Dublin., Theresa Ryan Dr
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Gender And Ses Effects On Multidimensional Self-Concept Development During Adolescence, Patricia Meredith Orr
Gender And Ses Effects On Multidimensional Self-Concept Development During Adolescence, Patricia Meredith Orr
Doctoral
The present study constitutes an integral part of the Dublin Child Development Study, a longitudinal study which began in 1986 and which has had eight waves of data collection since its inception. Using data collected during two of these waves, multidimensional self-concept status of 72 participants (F = 40, M = 32) was examined at 10 (T1) and 17 (T2) years of age. Longitudinal changes in multidimensional self-concept between T1 and T2 were also examined. The Shavelson Hubner and Stanton Structural Model (1976) was used as the theoretical basis for this research; this model emphasises the multidimensionality of the self-concept …
Lone Parents, Leisure Mobilities And The Everyday, Bernadette Quinn
Lone Parents, Leisure Mobilities And The Everyday, Bernadette Quinn
Books / Book chapters
This chapter highlights the importance of the ordinary as a site for enquiring into how people make sense of their worlds. The primary intention is to highlight the spatiality of everyday leisure practices and to unravel some of the connections that link these to the occasional leisure practice of holidaying. Empirically, the study focuses on a group of female lone parents of dependent children living on low incomes in Dublin. In Ireland as elsewhere, lone parent families constitute a sizeable, growing but marginal societal group. For the women studied, leisure constituted informal, unstructured and modest activities that were stitched into …
Care-Givers, Leisure And The Meaning Of Home: A Case Study Of Low Income Women In Dublin, Bernadette Quinn
Care-Givers, Leisure And The Meaning Of Home: A Case Study Of Low Income Women In Dublin, Bernadette Quinn
Articles
This article seeks to contribute to the literature on the meanings of domestic spaces by furthering understandings of the sorts of roles that space plays in shaping women’s leisure experiences. The study researched a group of 15 women who live in disadvantaged areas of Dublin city and care for dependent children. Focus groups and structured conversations revealed the poverty of the spatial capital available to these women, depicting local environments as difficult and stressful, and to be endured rather than enjoyed. They further revealed the extent to which the women’s lives were shaped by their obligations as care-givers. Within the …
Searching For Chefs, Waiters And Restaurateurs In Edwardian Dublin: A Culinary Historian's Experience Of The 1911 Dublin Census Online, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Searching For Chefs, Waiters And Restaurateurs In Edwardian Dublin: A Culinary Historian's Experience Of The 1911 Dublin Census Online, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire
Articles
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Ballymun Needs Analysis: Summary Report, Noirin Hayes, Siobhan Bradley
Ballymun Needs Analysis: Summary Report, Noirin Hayes, Siobhan Bradley
Reports
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The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union September, 1997, Dit: Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union September, 1997, Dit: Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April-May, 1997, Dit Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April-May, 1997, Dit Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, May 1995, Dit : Student's Union
The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, May 1995, Dit : Student's Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, November 1995, Dit : Student's Union
The Dit Examiner : The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union, November 1995, Dit : Student's Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union Special Edition, April 1995, Dit Students 'Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union Special Edition, April 1995, Dit Students 'Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union January, 1995, Dit: Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union January, 1995, Dit: Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April, 1995, Dit Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April, 1995, Dit Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union December, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union December, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union January, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union January, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
The Dit Examiner: The Newspaper Of The Dublin Institute Of Technology Students' Union April, 1994, Dit: Students' Union
DIT Student Union
No abstract provided.