Mary P. Corcoran

TL;DR: In this paper, the meaning of place attachment and its connection to location and locale in the context of the urban neighbourhood are explored, where the concept of place is conceptualised in terms of the setting in which social relations are constituted, the effects upon locales of social and economic processes and the creation of a sense of place, defined as the local "structure of feeling".

TL;DR: In this article, a set of qualitative interviews involving a cross-section of emigrants who left Ireland in the 1980s and returned in the 1990s were conducted to examine their motivations for leaving and their experiences abroad in terms of professional and personal development.

TL;DR: Lownsbrough et al. as discussed by the authors demonstrate the centrality of allotment gardening to the generation of solidarity, mutuality and trust among participating citizens, and identify the extent to which a shared politics of place can be created and nurtured among the cultivating citizenry.

TL;DR: The Socio-Historical context of Irish immigration to the United States has been explored in this paper, where the authors focus on the role of Irish immigrants in the New York labor market.

Abstract: There is a dearth of sociologicall y informed literature on Irish journalists In her seminal paper Kelly (1983) laid out the factors influencing the production of news in a general context, acknowledging in her analysis the limited range of research on the Irish media She highlighted the ideological and personal preferences of journalists on the one hand, and their professional values and practices on the other as key determinants of the news agenda However, to date no systematic study of Irish journalists has addressed these twin concerns Drawing on data obtained from a national survey of daily news journalists in the Republic of Ireland conducted in the late 1990s, this paper offers some insight into the class position, political orientation and value system ofa key group of 'meaning pro- ducers'in Irish society In particular, the article seeks to provide insight into the professional culture of Irish journalists and their views on the relationship between the messenger, the message and the audience This focus is apposite, given the central role played by Irish news journalists in bringing to public attention the variety of political, financial and religious scandals that engulfed Irish society in recent years The paper concludes that Irish journalists are in the main more liberal in their views than either the professional organisations they work for or the audiences they serve