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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...history. Foreword - John D'Arcy [Photo of John D’Arcy, Director of The Open University in Ireland]John D’Arcy - Director of The Open University in Ireland Two decades have passed since the momentous events described in this book and its accompanying OpenLearn website. Our collective memories of those times will have been made with press and media reports back then....
Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society

...history, suggesting that there is a strong social or cultural element, but our experience of ourselves as female or male is far deeper than some kind of social brainwashing. This raises a new question: how does the social or cultural become so deeply engrained that gender identities and gender differences seem fundamental to who we are? As Rosalind Gill has written, "how...
Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves
OpenLearn Ireland

Impossible Peace 2: Thrown to the political wolves

...history - words and actions that point towards a better peace than the one we have had so far. But there is another question: Are the loyalist paramilitaries watching and listening? Because in the here and now of Northern Ireland, it is their guns that are loudest. [Handwritten statement by Mervyn Wynne Jones. See details below for full transcript.]Mervyn Wynne Jones...
‘Bread of Heaven’ – Canu o’r un llyfr emynau?
History & The Arts

‘Bread of Heaven’ – Canu o’r un llyfr emynau?

...History of Welsh Music. Tuedd diddorol a mwy diweddar oedd gosod geiriau Cymraeg a Saesneg i ‘Cwm Rhondda’ yn yr un perfformiad, fel y clywir ar We’ll Keep A Welcome: The Welsh Album (1999) gan Bryn Terfel. Yma, gosodir penillion Cymraeg o waith Ann Griffiths a William Williams rhwng dau bennill o’r cyfieithiad Saesneg cyfarwydd. Er na fyddai hyn yn gwneud fawr o...
Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms
OpenLearn Ireland

Supporting Mental Health Through Online Music Fandoms

...History of Irish Popular Music. Related articles by Lauren O'Hagan: Music for Mental Health: An Autoethnography of the Rory Gallagher Instagram Fan Community. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Early access).DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08912416231162077 'Rory played the greens, not the blues': expressions of Irishness on the Rory Gallagher YouTube channel, Irish...
The Commonwealth Games: Where does it go after Glasgow 2026?
Health, Sports & Psychology

The Commonwealth Games: Where does it go after Glasgow 2026?

...history of the CWG is difficult to ignore, with all competing nations at one time being under the rule of the British Empire. Many are still unable to reconcile the values of inclusion or friendliness with the often violent and exploitative experiences of British colonialism. The CWG also has an uneasy association with the South African apartheid regime, which led to...
Social marketing
Money & Business

Social marketing

...family, roles and status) Cultural (culture, subculture, social class system). Below you will see Figure 1, which adapts the above factors to a health behaviour context, providing a model which also explicitly emphasises, together with cultural factors, other features such as the economic environment as an element of the wider social context. [Figure 1] Source: Hastings...
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Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?
Money & Business

Can Starbucks sell coffee to the Italians?

...family businesses, economising on labour costs. Coffee comes from local roasters who offer espresso machines and all the accoutrements needed to operate a bar on extremely favourable credit terms to secure the contract. The result is an extremely fragmented sector operating with low sales volumes, low service and low profit margins. And, frequently, low-quality coffee....