Gerard O’Brien
Biographic Data
| ID | 5825016 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerard O’Brien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerard |
| FAMILY NAME | O’Brien |
| SIGNATURE | O’BRIEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Adelaide |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
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…
Being there
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…
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 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 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…
Being there
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
History (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Irish (3 works)