Geoffrey O’brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 1382939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey O’brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | O’brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ulster |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2016-2165 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Perceived effects of Brexit and the Covid-19 epidemic on the UK lamb value chain
Purpose The study aims to investigate how stakeholders in the UK farm-to-retail lamb value chain fared in the wake of Britain’s formal exit from the European Union, along with the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic. Design/methodology/approach Eight interviews were conducted with members of three separate stakeholder groups within the UK lamb value chain (farmers, meat processors and retail buyers) to ascertain the benefits and challenges faced. Intervi…
L'hypnotiseur et la revenante
Promoting Healthy Aging for Older People Living with Chronic Disease by Implementing Community Health Programs
The rising prevalence of chronic diseases could be mitigated by expanding community programs. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of delivering a community wellness program for older adults living with chronic disease. A two-group randomized controlled study, with blinded assessments, enrolling adults (≥50 years) with chronic disease, was conducted at a Western Australian community hub. Participants randomly allocated to the intervention…
Cassava consumption and the occurrence of cyanide in cassava in Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines
Objective: To make a tentative assessment of the consumption of cassava in three countries in South-east Asia and the cyanogenic potential (CNp) of the crop as a possible food safety issue. Design: We used data from the Ministry of Health in Vietnam and Statistics Authorities in Indonesia and Philippines (mean household consumption per province) to assess cassava consumption. Conversions of units were needed to facilitate the comparison of cassav…
A Nation of Grifters, Fixers, and Marks
A Nation of Grifters, Fixers, and Marks:David Maurer's The Big Con Geoffrey O'Brien (bio) confidence games start small. abbott says to costello: "i'm in a hurry, give me two tens for a five." From elements of such amoeba-like simplicity, such little tricks of distraction, come the full-scale epics of deception—extended theatrical productions with large supporting casts—that are the subject of David W. Maurer's 1940 study, The Big Con. But even th…
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide
Even though the BA was the first degree it was not until eight years later in 1887 that the Faculty of Arts was inaugurated. In the first 50 years of the Universitys existence, less than ten BA students graduated each year. At the start of the 21st century this figure had climbed to over 300 BA graduates per year but what is interesting is that by 2010 the number of BA graduates was equalled by the number of graduates from separate named degrees …
Reconstructing Ireland’s Past
Reconstructing Ireland’s Past: A History of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. By Michael Kennedy and Deirdre McMahon. Pp xxiv, 210, illus. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. 2009. €40. - Volume 37 Issue 148
Radical connectionism
Language and thought
A Defense of Cartesian Materialism
One of the principal tasks Dennett sets himself in Consciousness Explained is to demolish the Cartesian theatre model of phenomenal consciousness, which in its contemporary garb takes the form of Cartesian materialism: the idea that conscious experience is a process of presentation realized in the physical materials of the brain. The now standard response to Dennett is that, in focusing on Cartesian materialism, he attacks an impossibly naive acc…
The missing personnel records of the R.I.C
Few commentators would dispute that, as regards historical records, 1922 was a year of destruction and displacement. Months before the conflagration in the Four Courts annihilated a broad cross-section of official records the departing representatives of the crown régime had turned their attention to those most recently in use. Nobody really knows how much of this material was deliberately burnt in Dublin Castle in the days preceding the takeover…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access GERARD O'BRIEN GERARD O'BRIEN University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1290–1291, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1290 Published: 01 November 1995
The record of the first Dáil debates
With the Act of Union and the consequent disappearance of the College Green legislature, the Irish parliamentary tradition was subsumed into the broader Westminster framework. When the tradition re-emerged in an Irish context, it appeared as a curious combined product of the Westminster experience and of events which had little to do with any kind of parliament. In regard to its early political existence and experience, Dáil Éireann’s most obviou…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access GERARD O'BRIEN GERARD O'BRIEN University of UlsterLondonderry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 1034–1035, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1034 Published: 01 October 1991
The Beginning of the Veto Controversy in Ireland
The year 1808 does not feature with any greater prominence in the history of Catholic relief legislation than it does generally in Irish history. It was an uneventful year for Anglo-Irish relations, and for the Irish Catholic community in particular it was – on the surface at least – a period of embarrassment, division and failure. The veto controversy, which dominated Catholic politics in 1808, was productive of mutual misunderstanding and was t…
The New Poor Law in Pre-Famine Ireland
The establishment of poor–law unions in Ireland, 1838–43
The historiography of poor-law administration in Ireland ever since Nicholls’s ‘official’ history in the mid-nineteenth century has suffered from a certain selectivity on the part of commentators. As a source of first-hand information Nicholls’s book is of little value. The relatively well-researched account of pre-poor-law relief mechanisms which forms the early part of the book is followed by a disappointing series of extracts from published an…
The establishment of poor–law unions in Ireland, 1838–43
The historiography of poor-law administration in Ireland ever since Nicholls’s ‘official’ history in the mid-nineteenth century has suffered from a certain selectivity on the part of commentators. As a source of first-hand information Nicholls’s book is of little value. The relatively well-researched account of pre-poor-law relief mechanisms which forms the early part of the book is followed by a disappointing series of extracts from published an…
Radical connectionism
The New Poor Law in Pre-Famine Ireland
The Beginning of the Veto Controversy in Ireland
The year 1808 does not feature with any greater prominence in the history of Catholic relief legislation than it does generally in Irish history. It was an uneventful year for Anglo-Irish relations, and for the Irish Catholic community in particular it was – on the surface at least – a period of embarrassment, division and failure. The veto controversy, which dominated Catholic politics in 1808, was productive of mutual misunderstanding and was t…
The establishment of poor–law unions in Ireland, 1838–43
The historiography of poor-law administration in Ireland ever since Nicholls’s ‘official’ history in the mid-nineteenth century has suffered from a certain selectivity on the part of commentators. As a source of first-hand information Nicholls’s book is of little value. The relatively well-researched account of pre-poor-law relief mechanisms which forms the early part of the book is followed by a disappointing series of extracts from published an…
The New Poor Law in Pre-Famine Ireland
The Beginning of the Veto Controversy in Ireland
The year 1808 does not feature with any greater prominence in the history of Catholic relief legislation than it does generally in Irish history. It was an uneventful year for Anglo-Irish relations, and for the Irish Catholic community in particular it was – on the surface at least – a period of embarrassment, division and failure. The veto controversy, which dominated Catholic politics in 1808, was productive of mutual misunderstanding and was t…
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access GERARD O'BRIEN GERARD O'BRIEN University of UlsterLondonderry Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CVI, Issue CCCCXXI, October 1991, Pages 1034–1035, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXXI.1034 Published: 01 October 1991
Shorter Notices
The record of the first Dáil debates
With the Act of Union and the consequent disappearance of the College Green legislature, the Irish parliamentary tradition was subsumed into the broader Westminster framework. When the tradition re-emerged in an Irish context, it appeared as a curious combined product of the Westminster experience and of events which had little to do with any kind of parliament. In regard to its early political existence and experience, Dáil Éireann’s most obviou…
Shorter Notices
Journal Article SHORTER NOTICES Get access GERARD O'BRIEN GERARD O'BRIEN University of Ulster Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CX, Issue 439, November 1995, Pages 1290–1291, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CX.439.1290 Published: 01 November 1995
A Defense of Cartesian Materialism
One of the principal tasks Dennett sets himself in Consciousness Explained is to demolish the Cartesian theatre model of phenomenal consciousness, which in its contemporary garb takes the form of Cartesian materialism: the idea that conscious experience is a process of presentation realized in the physical materials of the brain. The now standard response to Dennett is that, in focusing on Cartesian materialism, he attacks an impossibly naive acc…
The missing personnel records of the R.I.C
Few commentators would dispute that, as regards historical records, 1922 was a year of destruction and displacement. Months before the conflagration in the Four Courts annihilated a broad cross-section of official records the departing representatives of the crown régime had turned their attention to those most recently in use. Nobody really knows how much of this material was deliberately burnt in Dublin Castle in the days preceding the takeover…
Radical connectionism
Language and thought
Reconstructing Ireland’s Past
Reconstructing Ireland’s Past: A History of the Irish Manuscripts Commission. By Michael Kennedy and Deirdre McMahon. Pp xxiv, 210, illus. Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission. 2009. €40. - Volume 37 Issue 148
A History of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Adelaide
Even though the BA was the first degree it was not until eight years later in 1887 that the Faculty of Arts was inaugurated. In the first 50 years of the Universitys existence, less than ten BA students graduated each year. At the start of the 21st century this figure had climbed to over 300 BA graduates per year but what is interesting is that by 2010 the number of BA graduates was equalled by the number of graduates from separate named degrees …
A Nation of Grifters, Fixers, and Marks
A Nation of Grifters, Fixers, and Marks:David Maurer's The Big Con Geoffrey O'Brien (bio) confidence games start small. abbott says to costello: "i'm in a hurry, give me two tens for a five." From elements of such amoeba-like simplicity, such little tricks of distraction, come the full-scale epics of deception—extended theatrical productions with large supporting casts—that are the subject of David W. Maurer's 1940 study, The Big Con. But even th…
Cassava consumption and the occurrence of cyanide in cassava in Vietnam, Indonesia and Philippines
Objective: To make a tentative assessment of the consumption of cassava in three countries in South-east Asia and the cyanogenic potential (CNp) of the crop as a possible food safety issue. Design: We used data from the Ministry of Health in Vietnam and Statistics Authorities in Indonesia and Philippines (mean household consumption per province) to assess cassava consumption. Conversions of units were needed to facilitate the comparison of cassav…
Promoting Healthy Aging for Older People Living with Chronic Disease by Implementing Community Health Programs
The rising prevalence of chronic diseases could be mitigated by expanding community programs. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of delivering a community wellness program for older adults living with chronic disease. A two-group randomized controlled study, with blinded assessments, enrolling adults (≥50 years) with chronic disease, was conducted at a Western Australian community hub. Participants randomly allocated to the intervention…
Perceived effects of Brexit and the Covid-19 epidemic on the UK lamb value chain
Purpose The study aims to investigate how stakeholders in the UK farm-to-retail lamb value chain fared in the wake of Britain’s formal exit from the European Union, along with the worldwide COVID-19 epidemic. Design/methodology/approach Eight interviews were conducted with members of three separate stakeholder groups within the UK lamb value chain (farmers, meat processors and retail buyers) to ascertain the benefits and challenges faced. Intervi…
L'hypnotiseur et la revenante
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