irish potatoes is rich in carbohydrate, with varied glucose levels. it is also a very good source of apyrase, an enzyme used for platelet storage. the aim of this study was to explore irish potatoes as an easily available source for apyrase extraction and purification. apyrase was extracted from 5 kg of irish potatoes. platelets were derived from 5-10 ml of human whole blood and g6pd activity w...

In most western societies, marital fertility began to decline in the nineteenth century. But in Ireland, fertility in marriage remained stubbornly high into the twentieth century. Explanations of this focus on the influence of the Roman Catholic Church in Irish society. These arguments are often backed up by claims that the Irish outside of Ireland behaved the same way. This paper investigates ...

The Irish Travellers are a population with a history of nomadism; consanguineous unions are common and they are socially isolated from the surrounding, 'settled' Irish people. Low-resolution genetic analysis suggests a common Irish origin between the settled and the Traveller populations. What is not known, however, is the extent of population structure within the Irish Travellers, the time of ...

Heartwatch is a national program in Irish general practice for the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease. The program--a joint initiative of the Irish Department of Health and Children, the Irish College of General Practitioners, and the Irish Heart Foundation--has a number of key components, many of which may be suitable for adapting to Australian primary care.

1 University of Kuopio, Department of Physics, POB 1627, 70211 Kuopio, Finland 2 University of Helsinki, Department of Physical Sciences, Helsinki, Finland 3 Leibniz-Institut für Troposphärenforschung e.V., Permoserstraße 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany 4 Stockholm University, Department of Applied Environmental Science (ITM), Atmospheric Science Unit, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden 5 Max-Planck-Instit...

In the twentieth century, the Irish-born population in England has typically been in worse health than both the native population and the Irish population in Ireland, a reversal of the commonly observed healthy migrant effect. Recent birth cohorts living in England and born in Ireland, however, are healthier than the English population. The substantial Irish migrant health penalty arises princi...

In this paper I estimate a SVAR model to study the transmission of UK shocks to the Irish economy over the period 1922-1979, using annual time series for CPI inflation and output growth. UK aggregate demand and supply shocks have large and significant impacts on Irish inflation, but smaller impacts on Irish real GDP growth. A historical decomposition indicates that UK aggregate demand shocks pl...

There is a growing body of research in racial and ethnic studies on the processes of identity construction within minority ethnic populations. This article seeks to build on this work by analysing emerging collective identity formations in an ‘invisible’ minority ethnic group. Based upon focus groups and in-depth interviews with Irish people in Sheffield, the article aims to advance three key a...

Language resources are essential for linguistic research and the development of NLP applications. Low-density languages, such as Irish, therefore lack significant research in this area. This paper describes the early stages in the development of new language resources for Irish – namely the first Irish dependency treebank and the first Irish statistical dependency parser. We present the methodo...