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Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation
OpenLearn Ireland

Irish Women’s Poetry: the Next Generation

...account of the younger generation of Irish women’s poets, or to encapsulate the huge range and variety of styles, forms and themes in which they are working. This article will focus on three representative figures whose work shares similar preoccupations with poets such as Eavan Boland and Sinéad Morrissey in their focus on the woman’s experience within a personal,...
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Danielle Martin
Education & Development

Danielle Martin

...account that she has dedicated to her studies (both about her degree and OpenLearn) where she says she has found ‘a vibrant student community where I can tap into the support and camaraderie… it’s really helped to enrich my study experience. It’s always lovely to be able to pop an Instagram post up and chat to someone who is going through the same struggles of...
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The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste
Money & Business

The Bottom Line Expert Opinion: Art and the Business of Taste

...accounts for taste – as they old saying goes. However, in the modern world art is not only inspiring but also big business. In this episode of The Bottom Line, guests in the art world discuss the relation of art and business. Specifically, how is and should art be valued? Who decides what is and what is not fashionable? Is art just another consumer good to be bought and...
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Driven to drink?
Society, Politics & Law

Driven to drink?

...account for the decline in civil engagement, people have suggested the culprits could be the development of the notion of the teenager male who did not wish to ape his father's habits, the growth of interest in social media, greater mobility and urban sprawl. It is women being in paid work, not baking cakes for the bazaar say some. It is men working long hours, commuting...
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How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility
Society, Politics & Law

How time and place matter for migrants’ social mobility

...account changes over time and place, migrants' resourcefulness as well as societal factors hindering or helping them to make use of their resources can help us to understand the limitations, opportunities and also setbacks migrants experience when they seek social mobility in the new country. Many people assume that migration follows a linear route, where settlement is...
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Young children and the climate crisis
Education & Development

Young children and the climate crisis

...account of practice, rather than hiding plastic bottles - and our dependence on them - in the recycling bin, adults and children played and explored in a room filled with hundreds of bottles. The experience required adults and children to move differently and to think differently about our relationship with plastic. Shared dependence and vulnerability Such researchers...
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Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies
Health, Sports & Psychology

Being human: spirit, consciousness and being (or not being) in bodies

...accounts of people claiming to have ‘left’ their body and being able to look down on events in real time while they were dead. Increasingly, scientific observations are also suggesting that consciousness can in fact be disembodied. That consciousness can also exist – at least in part and in some way – outside that body. Just like Dr Michael Hfuhruhurr’s brain in...
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Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ageing, health inequalities and an integrated approach

...accounts for around 20% of a population’s health. Health behaviours are considered to contribute about 30% towards our health – but even these are not just a matter of personal responsibility. The important message to get across is that the main drivers of our health are socio-economic and environmental circumstances. We then see a complex interplay between these...
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