Notes on a Westmeath dialect

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. V. Nally
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
English Speakers ◽  
North West ◽  
Mixed Farming ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
English Speaking

1. What follows is a sketch of the phonology of the English spoken in Emper, Co. Westmeath. Emper is a pocket of fertile country partly enclosed in a loop of the River Inny and situate some eleven or twelve miles to the north-west of Mullingar. The population, fluctuating about two hundred souls, is composed mostly of farmers and farm labourers. They are engaged in mixed farming, that is tillage, stock-raising, and dairying; and are a settled community in that the farms in most cases have been occupied by the same families for generations. It is difficult to say at what date exactly the people of Emper ceased to speak Irish and became English speakers. The evidence is scanty and entirely oral, yet sufficient to warrant the conclusion that at some time after the middle of the eighteenth century, and certainly before 1800, Emper had become English speaking. The findings and conclusions below are based on my own (dialect) pronunciation and my memory of auditory observation of the speech of the older stratum of the inhabitants, and especially of those born before 1900. This is my vernacular speech and I have never lost touch with it.

Graphite Valley: IT in the Eighteenth-Century Lake District

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lars Öhrström
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Lake District ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Death Sentences ◽  
Pencil Lead ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Pencil Drawings ◽  
Working Out

Lake Windermere in the north-west of England perhaps makes you think of poets, or of adolescent adventures less concerned with wizards and vampires and more with Swallows and Amazons if you have grown up with English children’s books. Anyhow, people who lived by their pencil. Or should that perhaps be the pen? We don’t see the serious author in her study hard at work with a pencil. Pencils are generally considered to be mostly for children doing their homework, or others who frequently need to erase their mistakes. There has never been a lack of ink, traditionally a mixture of iron salts, water, and tannins—the bitter tasting compounds in tea and red wine. Always plenty of the black stuff to write poems and sign death sentences with. But the pencil, that is a different story. Far from being just for children, it was, and is, an essential tool for artists, engineers, carpenters, and architects. At engineering school in the late 1980s we still made (some of us did anyway) beautifully crafted pencil drawings of double-mantled stainless steel reactors. And in the army, close to the polar circle four years earlier, did we write out orders and decipher incoming radio messages with ballpoint pens? We certainly did not—in fact, this was forbidden because the ink in a pen may easily freeze. The ‘lead’ in the pencil (which is obviously not lead as in the element 82, but something else) brings us to these green valleys of the Lake District and Cumbria, England—as unlikely a place for an information technology hub as the orange orchards around Palo Alto. The different is that in California in the 1970s it was the dedicated people that mattered, not any local silicon mines. In Borrowdale in the late sixteenth century, it was the inside of the mountain itself that made the difference, for there you find the stuff from which to make pencil lead. Not that the people were unimportant. Entrepreneurship thrived in different forms. ‘Black Sal’, for example, working out of the small town of Keswick close to Borrowdale, was allegedly running a pencil-lead smuggling network in the early eighteenth century.

Political Theory of the Red River Resistance: The Declaration of December 8, 1869

1978 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Flanagan
Keyword(s):  
Political Culture ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Red River ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Rupert's Land

Although there exists a respectable literature on political thought in Canada, relatively little of this work has been done by political theorists or philosophers. Much of the research has been carried out by historians, sociologists, or more recently by political scientists working with sociological conceptions such as “political culture.” But there is still a place in the study of Canadian political thought for one of the traditional tasks of political theory, the critical analysis of significant texts. This paper examines one such document, which deserves to be better known than it is, the “Declaration of the People of Rupert's Land and the North West,” of December 8, 1869. The text is presented in both English and French versions, the background of the document is briefly discussed, and its argument is analyzed at some length.

A Grammar of the Language of Lamalanga, North Raga, New Hebrides

1938 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 733-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. G. Ivens
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
New Hebrides

LAMALANGA is situated on the north-west coast of the island called Raga, or Araga (Pentecost Island), in the central New Hebrides, Melanesia.The head station of the Melanesian Mission on Raga is at Lamalanga which itself is on the coast; but the people who speak the language represented in this grammar live on the hills just above the Mission Station. Dr. R. H. Codrington published a grammar of the language spoken at Vun Marama on the same coast, a few miles north of Lamalanga.

The Yoruba Image of the Witch

1961 ◽  
Vol 107 (449) ◽  
pp. 795-805 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Prince
Keyword(s):  
West Coast ◽  
Western Society ◽  
Or Education ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The Witch ◽  
Social Level

Witchcraft, the extra-natural interference in the welfare of the community by women, has long since ceased to be a source of major concern in Western society. In many other areas of the world, however, the witch remains a very active and vital image in the consciousness of the people, This is certainly true for the Yoruba*—a negro group occupying large areas of Nigeria, Dahomey and Togoland along the north-west coast of Africa. With the Yoruba (irrespective of his social level, religion or education), belief in the witch and in her powers is all but universal.

scholarly journals The Impact of Armed Conflict on Agro-Industrial Development in Cameroon: The case of the Cameroon Development Corporation (CDC) within the context of the Anglophone crisis

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 279-288
Author(s):  
Dinsi Stanley Chung ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Financial Loss ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Development Corporation ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Impact

The Cameroon Development Corporation has been severely affected by the armed conflict in the English speaking (North West and South West regions) part of the country that has been on for close to four years running. How then has the armed conflict in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon affected the Cameroon Development Corporation? How can the growth of the agro-industry be guaranteed? This study looks at the impact of the armed conflict in the North West and South West regions of Cameroon on the Cameroon Development Corporation. Making use of public policy theories, this study establishes a link between government defense strategies/sector development policies and agro-industrial development. The study results show that due to the armed conflict in the English speaking regions, the CDC has incurred major damages including: loss in human capital, drop in production capacity, heavy financial loss and equipment damages. The study results also reveal that, the survival of the CDC depends largely on strategic options to be taken at two separate levels including: political options by conflicting parties - the government and separatist fighters on the one hand, and on the other, options taken by the CDC at both managerial and technical levels. The study concludes that for the CDC to attain structural growth and development that will significantly contribute to the national economy, conflicting.

Community Radios and the Socio-Economic Development of the North-West Region of Cameroon: Case of the Donga Mantung Community Radio

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Wuchu Cornelius Wutofeh
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Community Radio ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
To Come

This article is aimed at evaluating the contributions of community radios to the development of regions. Qualitative and quantitative research designs were adopted added to secondary data (published, unpublished sources and the internet). The data derived was coded and analysed to come out with the following findings that Donga-Mantung community radio has significantly contributed to the local development of the division in the following ways. First, the community radio contributes to improvement in the agricultural activities of the local population. Second, the Donga Mantung community radio helps in promoting the culture of the people as well as the general sensitisation of the people. Third, the station has provided a forum for Small and Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs) to reach out to the larger population by undertaking advertisements at very affordable fees. Fourth, the station contributes in sensitising the public on health issues focusing on AIDS prevention, vaccination and family planning.

Strengthening Community Policing Culture and Practice in Nigeria for Effective Crime Prevention and Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Policing ◽  
Boko Haram ◽  
North West ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
West Region ◽  
South West ◽  
The People ◽  
Headline News ◽  
Proactive Measures

With the growing insecurity in the country, many commentators are beginning to question the provision of the 1999 Nigerian constitution, Chapter 2, Section 14 (2)(b), which stipulates that “the security and welfare of the people shall be the primary purpose of government”. In Nigeria today, virtually 50 percent of headline news relates to some form of insecurity affecting almost every part of the country. From the Boko Haram insurgencies in the North East, to Herdsmen – Farmers crisis in the middle belt, to banditry and kidnapping in the North West. From South-South region battling militant agitation, to South-East security menace of separatist agitation, kidnapping and armed robbery. Of recent is the issues of kidnapping and banditry surfacing on highways within the South West region, one would rightly say that the centralized form of Policing structure being operated in Nigeria has completely failed. Hence, agitation for institutionalising the concept of Community Policing in Nigeria. Community Policing is a concept that emphasises proactive measures – preventing the act of crime through intelligence and community participation, rather than reactive policing. It is also principled on partnership and decentralisation of powers for effective crime fighting.

WILTJA: Model of Education Delivery

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
John Amadio
Keyword(s):  
South Australia ◽  
The State ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Education Delivery ◽  
Mainstream Culture

The Pitjantjatjara people in the north west of South Australia and the Yalata Community in the far west of the state identify as Anangu (the people) Anangu culture is very different in many ways from the mainstream culture largely associated with urban centres but some of the aspects in common include a desire to maintain their culture and lifestyle, wanting a favourable future for their children and their communities, and a desire to be self managing.

An urban–rural continuum? A spatial comparison in mid-eighteenth-century northern Germany

Urban History ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-447
Author(s):  
Olaf März
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
Land Survey ◽  
Micro Structures ◽  
German Cities ◽  
Modern Era

AbstractThe spatial growth of German cities in the years of upheaval in the nineteenth century has been, and remains, the subject of intense historical research. However, the origins of the socio-economic processes underlying these transformations actually predate the epochal transition into the modern era. This article deals critically with the popular conception of a ‘town–country dichotomy’ by comparing, on an empirical basis, urban, semi-urban and rural settlements in a sub-region of the north-west of Germany in the mid-eighteenth century. With the aid of a Geographical Information System (GIS), the cartographic and serial material of the ‘Brunswick Land Survey’ is evaluated in terms of its relevance to a socio-topographic comparison of the spatial micro-structures of the three respective settlement segments. The comparison focuses on the general morphology of the settlement segments, the conditions accompanying the growth of the settlements and the spatial structures of the agricultural activities pursued. In addition, it identifies the factors which led to the erosion of differences between town and country.

Sojourners and lodgers in a provincial town: the evidence from eighteenth-century Ludlow

Urban History ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 14-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The North ◽  
Fundamental Part ◽  
The People ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Manufactured Products ◽  
Market Town ◽  
Set Up

Urban historians have recently shown an increasing interest in the development of England's provincial centres and smaller market towns. Although they lacked a strong manufacturing element and did not expand at the same rate as the emerging industrial centres of the north and the midlands, towns like Canterbury, Ipswich, Lutterworth and Ludlow played a fundamental part in eighteenth-century urban history. They acted as distribution points for an increasing range of agricultural goods and manufactured products. They helped to stimulate the expansion and diversification of England's traditional crafts. They fostered the development of urban culture and in doing so they attracted large numbers of immigrants and casual visitors. There were occasions when even the smallest market town opened its doors to a large contingent of outsiders, be it for one day in the week when the market was held or at an annual fair, whilst people attending court or the fashionable season would temporarily ‘swell’ the population of centres like Bath and Bristol or of cathedral and county towns like Gloucester and Canterbury. Some of the people who were drawn ‘townwards’, and these are the people we know most about, eventually became integrated into the community and set up their own homes and businesses. But there were other groups too, groups which tend to get neglected for they feature so rarely in our records. There were the men and women who disappeared without trace after quartering in a town for a night or a couple of weeks and whom we only learn about by chance.

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