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Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: Sinéad Morrissey

...troubles women have faced throughout history (Finucane, n.d). You can see her do this in the poem ‘The Mayfly’, from her 2017 collection On Balance, when she celebrates the mostly forgotten achievements of the Irish journalist and aviator Lillian Bland, one of the first women in the British Isles to design, build and fly an aircraft, the Bland Mayfly: … Once it was...
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Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom
Languages

Catalan resurgent: how a language has gone from ban to boom

...troubled history, but is a key marker of identity in Catalonia, a region where many hope for independence from Spain. This will soon come to a head as Catalonia prepares for regional elections on September 27. Should a coalition united on the issue of Catalonian independence win a majority, its leader – the current Catalan president Artur Mas – has said he would...
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Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Music and mental health: the parallels between Victorian asylum treatments and modern social prescribing

...trouble in their preparation and arrangement and, I may add, considerable expense; but they are invaluable as a relief to the monotony of life in an Asylum. The pleasure they afford as well in anticipation as in reality, is ample to compensate for the efforts made to present them … Dances, in particular, offered exercise and enjoyment, and even patients who were unable...
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Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?
Society, Politics & Law

Have the Tunisian elections have started a new democratic era?

...troubled year and two political assassinations. The party had also failed to alleviate the dire social and economic situation in the country, after having made grandiose promises. Unemployment in Tunisia remains stubbornly high at 16%, and averages 40% among youth. There’s been a “security vacuum” in the country for more than two years. More than 30 national guards...
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Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries
History & The Arts

Sartre & de Beauvoir, Guevara & Castro: When the existentialists met the revolutionaries

...troubling him about the bearded comandante. They visit a now-public beach being developed for internal tourism. They are given warm soft drinks. Castro asks why there is no ice. Because, replies one of the three slightly dazed workers, the refrigerators do not work. Castro cannot tolerate such un-revolutionary lethargy and bangs around the machines trying to get them to...
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The dark side of American populism in the Trump era
Society, Politics & Law

The dark side of American populism in the Trump era

...troubled the US ever since. The most notorious group, the Ku Klux Klan, was borne of Southern Democrats’ resentment of emancipation; over the years, it has been invigorated by other radical right groups founded on a powerful ideology of “Christian Identity”, a commitment to the racial superiority of white people and a mission to secure white power and dominance....
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Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?
Society, Politics & Law

Why does behavioural economics point to a hard Brexit?

...trouble This isn’t the first time that Prospect Theory has loomed behind Brexit-related decisions. The original Leave vote in 2016 can be explained as a battle of gain/loss framing, which the Brexiteers won by exploiting discontent with people’s present situations. Remainers unsuccessfully tried in 2016 to persuade voters that EU membership brought a net gain –...
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Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)
Society, Politics & Law

Why we no longer need melted-down bracelets to make bullets (or build roads)

...trouble for misreading the numbers on a spreadsheet, remember this. A famous former World Bank chief economist also did this, and it didn’t stop him becoming one of the most authoritative commentators on global affairs. Second, it may no longer be true that governments have to finance all their spending through taxation or borrowing. That was the case a century ago,...
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