‘I was altogether out of tune with my colleagues’: Conor Cruise O'Brien and Northern Ireland, 1969–77

Acknowledgements School of Innovation, Design and Engineering Was an Excellent Working Place and Research Environment and I Learned Much from Many of My Colleagues and My Students

Dedication This book is dedicated to the memory of two people who most profoundly influenced my worldview: my uncle Anton Dodig, who was the first one to show me the proof of Pythagoras theorem – a magic moment I will never forget, along with his innumerable demonstrations of the effectiveness of logical analysis which taught me the amazing power of reason; and to my mother Jelena whose fascina...

The cards I was dealt: my life with familial hypercholesterolemia.

Brains out of tune.

whose musical sense was not keen. He said: " It is odd, I can never tell 'God save the weasel' from 'Pop goes the Queen'! " T he old fellow of Sheen was in good company. Two presidents of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant (Fig. 1) and Theodore Roosevelt 1 , were tone deaf, as was Che Guevara 2. Music educators often ascribe 3 lack of musical aptitude to lack of practice. But in a paper publis...

Northern Ireland

The association between the prevalence of both byssinosis and chronic bronchitis and the level of airborne dust was examined in workers in preparing departments in flax mills in Northern Ireland. A weak association between the dust level and byssinosis was found but not between the dust level and chronic bronchitis. It is suggested that the disparity of these associations may have arisen becaus...

My home was my castle: Evictions and repossessions in Britain

Using data for 1991 to 1997 from the British Household Panel Survey we investigate the incidence of housing finance problems, evictions and repossessions. Previous research on repossessions and problematical housing debt has focused on cross-sectional data. This paper contributes uniquely to the literature by examining the sequence of household and individual events associated with housing arre...