In this paper we present the Ainm.ie online collection of Irish-language biographies. This collection is a product of a project to retro-digitise the Beathaisnéis series, published between 1986 and 2007, as well as ongoing biographical work to expand and enrich the collection. The Beathaisnéis series comprised biographical accounts of 1,650 lives and an additional 520 amendments and supplementa...

This paper examines the corporate funding flows of Irish credit institutions over the period 2009 to end-2010. The analysis examines the daily net movement across the consolidated corporate and retail deposit books of the domestic Irish banking sector and models these flows as a function of bank specific measures of risk, sovereign influences and general macro-financial conditions. The internat...

Tn this paper~ we present a method for capacity planning which illustrates the mutually complementary role~ of CAPTURE/MVS~ BEST/I and SAS. The first two of these are software products developed by BGS Systems, Inc.; they provide the ability to extract and analyze MVS measurement data, and to project the performance impacts of system or workload changes. In this study, SAS 1::; used in cunjunct...

to critical scrutiny through sampling the criminal and poor-law records of the city. Finally, an assessment is made of the extent to which the Irish were assimilated into the local community. The choice of York for such an extended analysis has not turned out to be particularly fruitful since successive fresh waves of immigrants replaced those who had moved on, and very few Irish remained in th...

Borders and Boundaries: these terms appropriately describe a certain tendency prevailing in Irish and Scottish Studies which delineates and thus delimits their field in terms of national concerns. While postcolonial criticism shows the potential to adhere to national boundaries whilst embedding them in an international context, this paper aims to shift its relevance from questions about the nat...

This paper looks at the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) resources in primary school education in Ireland. It shows how two Irish NLP resources, the Irish Finite State Transducer Morphological Engine (IFSTME) (Uí Dhonnchadha, 2002) and Gramadóir (Scannell, 2005) were used as the underlying engines for two Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) resources for Irish. The IFSTME was use...

Objective: Obesity is a serious public health issue, the prevalence of which is increasing globally. The present study aimed to investigate trends in overweight and obesity in Irish adults between 1990 and 2011. Design: Anthropometric data from three Irish national food consumption surveys were used to calculate trends in BMI, waist circumference and waist:hip ratio. Setting: Three cross-sectio...

Irish elections use a voting system called proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote (PR-STV). Under this system, the voters express their votes by ranking some (or all) of the candidates in order of preference. Which candidates are elected is determined through a series of counts where candidates are eliminated and surpluses are distributed. The electorate in any elect...

BACKGROUND The differences between breast cancer risk factors in white British/Irish and Asian women attending screening in the UK are not well documented. METHODS Between 2009-15 ethnicity and traditional breast cancer risk factors were self-identified by a screening cohort from Greater Manchester, with follow up to 2016. Risk factors and incidence rates were compared using age-standardised ...