Nancy Hurrell, <i>The Egan Irish Harps: Tradition, Patrons and Players</i> (2019)

Patronage, Tradition and Modernisation: The case of the Irish "Gombeenman"

IThe theory of optimal reductions

We introduce a new class of higher order rewriting systems, called Interaction Systems (IS's). IS's come from Lafont's (Intuitionistic) Interaction Nets Lafont 1990] by dropping the linearity constraint. In particular, we borrow from Interaction Nets the syntactical bipartitions of operators into constructors and destructors and the principle of binary interaction. As a consequence, IS's are a ...

John Punch, Scotist Holy War, and the Irish Catholic Revolutionary Tradition in the Seventeenth Century.

During the 1640s, the Irish Franciscan theologian John Punch taught his theology students in Rome that war against Protestants was made just by their religion alone. Jesuits like Luis de Molina identified the holy war tradition in which Punch stood as a Scotist one, and insisted that the Scotists had confused the natural and supernatural spheres. Among Irishmen, Punch was unusual. The main Iris...

Pugilism among Irish Travelers: cultural tradition and the fight bite injury

he extant medical literature lacks a discussion of the cultural tradition of bare-knuckle boxing among Irish Travelers, which is pertinent to traumatology given the possible medical complications of this practice. This cultural tradition is a risk factor for a potentially dangerous injury known as a “fight bite”. Irish Travelers are individuals belonging to nomadic families who originated in Ir...

Nancy Knowlton

Alexander Sulakvelidze, Chief Scientist at Intralytix and one of its co-founders, says phages are a very safe and natural way of protecting food against bacteria. “The concept of using phages for improving food safety is based on simply applying phages back onto the foods in the right concentration, at the right place, and at the right time,” Sulakvelidze explains. “Thus, applying lytic phages ...