Michael O'Connell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4532785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O'Connell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Connell |
| SIGNATURE | CONNELL M O |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aran Islands, Western Ireland: Farming History and Environmental Change, Reconstructed from Field Surveys, Historical Sources, and Pollen Analyses
The Aran Islands are exceptional cultural landscapes at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. They are strongly influenced by human settlement and small-scale farming that is still pursued according to traditional practices. Reconstruction of changes in farming from the beginning of the early 20th century onwards, and demographic changes beginning in the early 19th century, are discussed in the light of official statistics. Field surveys, aimed mainly a…
How development happens: Safe and sustainable energy, community development projects, and implementation challenges in Timor‐Leste
This article describes how seed funding from one major Australian University, designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations among academics, led to the implementation of a safe and sustainable energy supply at a community development project in remote Timor‐Leste. This article reflects on the process, the results, and insights developed during the project primarily from the point of view of the academics. A participatory process of co‐de…
A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland
Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800 BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation that involved an increase in pine and …
Environmental change and the expansion of late Neolithic cultures in central and western Europe: An overview of the evidence provided by high-resolution palaeoecological records
The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second‐level students
Early school‐leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties in school, deprived economic background and disengagement with the educational process. The attitudes and background of a representative sample of 1311 Irish second‐level students were assessed. Data were gathered on intentio…
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
Three Years After: Next Steps in the War on Terror
The RAND Corporation held a conference three years after 9/11 to share results from recent terrorism studies with government and military officials, congressional staff, foundations, NGOs, foreign embassy representatives, and the public. Participants discuss understanding the nature of the terrorist threat; taking direct action against terrorists and terrorist organizations; seeking to reduce support for terrorists; and protecting the homeland.
Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England
This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O’Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theatre was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular b…
Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias
Despite relatively low crime rates, the Irish public believes itself to be experiencing a law and order crisis. In this article, it is argued that a plausible explanation for the public misperception is the distorted image of crime in the media. A sample of over 2000 Irish newspaper articles dealing with crime is analysed and it is argued that there are four ways in which the press skews the representation of crime. These are the bias towards ext…
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm, Anti-Theatricalism, and the Image of the Elizabethan Theater
Music and Sense in Handel's Setting of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAROQUE COMPOSER, Handel has provided us with fortunate conjunctions of music and English poetry. Among his successful unions of voice and verse, none is more ambitious in its attempt to advance poetic meaning than his setting of Milton's L'Allegro and II Penseroso. But even to recognize such ambition, to employ music to advance the meaning of a text, compels us to acknowledge our distance from what the eighteenth century unde…
Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias
Despite relatively low crime rates, the Irish public believes itself to be experiencing a law and order crisis. In this article, it is argued that a plausible explanation for the public misperception is the distorted image of crime in the media. A sample of over 2000 Irish newspaper articles dealing with crime is analysed and it is argued that there are four ways in which the press skews the representation of crime. These are the bias towards ext…
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second‐level students
Early school‐leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties in school, deprived economic background and disengagement with the educational process. The attitudes and background of a representative sample of 1311 Irish second‐level students were assessed. Data were gathered on intentio…
Music and Sense in Handel's Setting of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAROQUE COMPOSER, Handel has provided us with fortunate conjunctions of music and English poetry. Among his successful unions of voice and verse, none is more ambitious in its attempt to advance poetic meaning than his setting of Milton's L'Allegro and II Penseroso. But even to recognize such ambition, to employ music to advance the meaning of a text, compels us to acknowledge our distance from what the eighteenth century unde…
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm, Anti-Theatricalism, and the Image of the Elizabethan Theater
Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias
Despite relatively low crime rates, the Irish public believes itself to be experiencing a law and order crisis. In this article, it is argued that a plausible explanation for the public misperception is the distorted image of crime in the media. A sample of over 2000 Irish newspaper articles dealing with crime is analysed and it is argued that there are four ways in which the press skews the representation of crime. These are the bias towards ext…
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England
This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O’Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theatre was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular b…
Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
Three Years After: Next Steps in the War on Terror
The RAND Corporation held a conference three years after 9/11 to share results from recent terrorism studies with government and military officials, congressional staff, foundations, NGOs, foreign embassy representatives, and the public. Participants discuss understanding the nature of the terrorist threat; taking direct action against terrorists and terrorist organizations; seeking to reduce support for terrorists; and protecting the homeland.
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
Environmental change and the expansion of late Neolithic cultures in central and western Europe: An overview of the evidence provided by high-resolution palaeoecological records
The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second‐level students
Early school‐leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties in school, deprived economic background and disengagement with the educational process. The attitudes and background of a representative sample of 1311 Irish second‐level students were assessed. Data were gathered on intentio…
A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland
Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800 BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation that involved an increase in pine and …
How development happens: Safe and sustainable energy, community development projects, and implementation challenges in Timor‐Leste
This article describes how seed funding from one major Australian University, designed to encourage interdisciplinary collaborations among academics, led to the implementation of a safe and sustainable energy supply at a community development project in remote Timor‐Leste. This article reflects on the process, the results, and insights developed during the project primarily from the point of view of the academics. A participatory process of co‐de…
Aran Islands, Western Ireland: Farming History and Environmental Change, Reconstructed from Field Surveys, Historical Sources, and Pollen Analyses
The Aran Islands are exceptional cultural landscapes at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. They are strongly influenced by human settlement and small-scale farming that is still pursued according to traditional practices. Reconstruction of changes in farming from the beginning of the early 20th century onwards, and demographic changes beginning in the early 19th century, are discussed in the light of official statistics. Field surveys, aimed mainly a…
Geography (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (3 works) · Holocene (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Pollen (3 works)