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Irish Gothic story competition winners
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Irish Gothic story competition winners

...write a great gothic short story? Read the judges' reports and winning entries from our Irish Gothic competition...We are pleased to announce the winners of the Irish Gothic story competition. Thank you to everyone who submitted their stories. We were blown away by the sheer quality and range of pieces, which explored themes as varied as haunted houses, ghostly train...
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Outdoor spaces for tiny humans
Education & Development

Outdoor spaces for tiny humans

...writing of Friedrich Froebel (1782–1852) who believed that this period of childhood has particular significance; the senses, through which the child experiences the world, require that ‘the surroundings… should be pure and clear – pure air, clear light, clear space’ (1826, p. 15). On the Froebel Trust website, there is a section dedicated to children and nature...
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Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?
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Impossible Peace 2: Where have all the leaders gone?

...writing on the wall of ‘not a bullet - not an ounce’, and who with colleagues made significant progress in taking many guns out of Irish politics. George Mitchell, Nancy Soderberg, Martha Pope and the arms inspectors Martti Ahtisaari and Cyril Ramaphosa are others who come to mind. We learned from South Africa and the Basque Country and they learned from us....
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Why are people superstitious?
History & The Arts

Why are people superstitious?

...writes, ‘no one would be in the grip of superstition’. [Excommunicated Spinoza, 1907 painting by Samuel Hirszenberg] Excommunicated Spinoza, 1907 painting by Samuel Hirszenberg. But rarely if ever is that the case. Instead, we inevitably encounter adversity and disappointment in pursuing what we want. Then we ‘vacillate wretchedly between hope and fear’, making us...
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57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One
Society, Politics & Law

57 genders (and none for me?) - Part One

...writes about sex, gender and relationships, what with the coinciding of LGBT history month and Valentine’s Day. This year, however, I thought I could rest up a bit on February 14, given that I said everything I wanted to say about the celebration of romantic love last Valentine. I was wrong. Facebook chose February 14 2014 to do one of the most exciting things that has...
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Proper men, proper women: Gender roles in contemporary UK society
Health, Sports & Psychology

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

...writing in Subjectivity2009, 25, pages 432-445 The Aftermath of Feminism: Gender, Culture and Social Change Angela McRobbie, published by Sage I discuss this book in a review published in Feminism & Psychology Reclassifying upward mobility: femininity and the neo-liberal subject Valerie Walkerdine writing in Gender and Education 2003 15, pages 237-248 Why more and more...
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction
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Impossible Peace 2: Introduction

...write, the World headlines are the stories of the Hell of Gaza, and the constant references to war involving Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Iran and the bombs of the US; stories also of ceasefires and broken ceasefires, of power and ego masquerading as leadership. Within these pages, you will read the words of a Palestinian American Aziz Abu Sarah, someone who has been...
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Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence
History & The Arts

Opening up history: eighteenth century ideas of national independence

...writing a book examining movements for independence in Corsica, Poland, America, France, Ireland, and Haiti. Rather than treating each revolution separately, I focus on how contemporaries thought about the legitimacy of independence: what made a claim to self-rule valid, and how they justified separation from foreign domination. By placing these movements side by side,...
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