Aims to describe the variation in breeding bird populations that occur on different types of Irish peatlands and their associated habitat characteristics.
Methods: Bird abundance and diversity were compared between four ...
This paper discusses the design and development of a new direct simple shear (DSS)
apparatus for testing peat soils. The apparatus has been designed to test peat at low
effective stresses, representative of its in-situ ...
The purpose of this paper is to present a review of peat landslide events in
Ireland since 2003, when two significant events occurred. Since 2003, there have been at
least thirteen such events. Several of these events ...
Although peat slope failures have occurred in Ireland for many thousands of years their causal
factors and the triggering mechanisms involved are poorly understood. A particular barrier to
quantitative assessment of the ...
'Mushroom stones', or 'wave stones', are limestone erratics or protruding bedrock that shows signs of erosion or dissolution suggestive of prolonged exposure to standing water. Fifty-three stones in the central lowlands ...
Purpose – This paper seeks to examine the critical role fiscal incentives have played in urban regeneration in Ireland since 1986, focusing on the role of such incentives, their impact on development and implications for ...
McCarthy, Colm(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2012-01)
A popular narrative amongst European policymakers is that Eurozone members facing
problems in the bond market are paying the price for past budgetary excess. Fiscal
consolidation in these countries is seen as the principal ...
Communications are an outstanding feature of Ireland's rural landscape. Some roads date from early times, but a network of roads and lanes, much denser than in most of Europe, developed strongly in the eighteenth and ...