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A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s
OpenLearn Ireland

A Century of Change: Shifting Patterns in Irish Emigration in the 1800s

...money which ensured the survival of those left behind and facilitated the migration of other family members. As historian Margaret Lynch-Brennan points out, many such women ‘came in a chain migration in which male and female relatives brought over other family members over time’ (Lynch-Brennan, 2007, p. 333). [J. Brennan: Letter from America 1875 ] J. Brennan: Letter...
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On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study
Society, Politics & Law

On a Wing and a Prayer: A case study

...are rewarded for that, they get a gold medal, or you can raise money for refugees doing that, and this man walks through the Channel Tunnel and is arrested. So there is this reversal in how different people are allowed or not allowed to travel geographies, land, boundaries, and these boundaries are there for some and not for others. Now explore some reactions to the art...
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How jazz came to Wales
History & The Arts

How jazz came to Wales

...money ‘for the poor of Swansea’ in thanks for the donations paid to their Fisk campus building fund. [The Fisk Jubilee Singers]The Fisk Jubilee Singers in 1875. An early example of the intercultural cross-fertilisation of Welsh and American culture was the minstrelsy show, which between the 1850s and the beginning of the twentieth century was a highly popular form of...
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Volunteering in the education sector
Education & Development

Volunteering in the education sector

...Money Advisers (NASMA), Einir had never thought about it. She had been a member of the Association for more than two decades, and had benefited from her membership, but having gained so much experience, she was ready to share her knowledge with others. She was fortunate that her employer recognised how valuable Einir’s involvement with NASMA could be, and gave her their...
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Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two
Education & Development

Prison Abolition in Question(s): Part Two

...money. Voluntary and community-led interventions which have directly engaged with people in their own community have often proven to be the most effective of all (see for example Outside Chance, Liz Dronfield, 1981). Because abolitionist alternatives are not grounded in the deliberate infliction of pain, inevitably they will be much more humane than any prison sentence...
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Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future
History & The Arts

Butetown Carnival: past, present, and future

...money ran out. We managed for another year, but the community became disheartened. We found ourselves in competition with other cultural events in Cardiff, that had much more funding, and often overlooked the black artists and performers right on their doorstep. In the end, Carnival just stopped happening. ‘To paint a more positive picture.’ However, six years ago, we...
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Finding your way after the death of a significant person
Health, Sports & Psychology

Finding your way after the death of a significant person

...money, we might lose a friendship, a marriage, a house, a country (during/after war) ... we will all lose something in this life. One of the permanent losses we are faced with is when someone dies. I find that in British society, we shy away from this death and dying topic. When we experience a death in our lives, we often get these common phrases from people... ‘I am...
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What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?
Science, Maths & Technology

What do the latest pictures of Pluto tell us?

...busy doing science to transmit data to Earth. During that time we had to content ourselves with the few “taster” images that were beamed back immediately after it passed Pluto. However the probe has now begun the year-long process of transmitting its vast haul of fly-by data, including images that are crisper and more reliable because they preserve original details...
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