Thesis (Ph. D.)--St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, 1987. / Typescript. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 508-530).

The goal of my thesis is to create a business plan focused on establishing the agency Irsky sen Ltd. Agency will arrange jobs for Czech students in Ireland. In the theoretical part there is described in general how the structure and the content of the business plan should look like. In the practical part there was used a tool of the SLEPT analysis for analyzing of environment of Ireland and its specifics. The analysis focuses on the facts which can influence the agency Irsky sen Ltd. The same tool was used to describe the Czech Republic. The next part of the thesis is the particular business plan for establishing the agency Irsky sen Ltd. In conclusion there is evaluated the establishing and running the agency Irský sen Ltd.

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Research was performed at Crag Cave, Castleisland, southwest Ireland, and P8 Cave, Castleton, Derbyshire, in order to determine the main factors responsible for modifying rainwater geochemistry during flow through soil and karstic aquifer zones. Monitoring was performed on a daily basis in summer and winter at Crag Cave, and on a monthly basis over one year at P8 Cave. At both sites, biannual peaks in karst system Ca2+concentrations occurred due to: (i) promotion of microbial C02 production by increased summer temperatures, and (ii) retardation of gaseous exchange by ponding of elevated winter rainfall input leading to an unseasonable build up in soil zone C02. Therefore, speleothems at both sites may form biannual bands in hydrological years subject to elevated winter rainfall input. In addition to variations in carbonate weathering due to fluctuations in C02 levels, cation yields in Crag Cave matrix soil water were controlled by dolomite dissolution (Mg2+), plant uptake (K+), and evapotranspiration balanced by enhanced winter marine aerosol input (Na+). Strontium isotope analysis indicates that S~+ was derived from a 50:50 silicate/carbonate mixture, whilst the relatively light 313C signal was related to direct evolution of C02 into the aqueous phase in waterlogged pores. Within the Crag Cave aquifer variations in karst water geochemistry were controlled by dilution, flow switching, prior precipitation of calcite and dolomite dissolution along the flow path. Strontium isotope analysis indicates that dissolution in the aquifer dominated, with S~+ being sourced from a 25:75 silicate/carbonate mixture. Light karst water 313C values were constrained by the supply of light soil gas to the aquifer. Elevation in the Mg/Ca and Sr/Ca ratios in the Crag Cave speleothem record compared to present day analogues indicates that the former Holocene climate was drier, whilst heavier 87Sr/86Srratios and 813C values suggest variation in soil hydrology over time.

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The historiography of the north of Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries fails to address many key issues regarding the social and material culture of the aristocracy of the region. Existing work has concentrated largely on economic and political questions. This thesis seeks to redress this balance by providing a study of the world of the Ulster aristocracy outside the realms of national politics and land purchase. The work looks at six aspects of aristocratic culture between 1870 and 1925, using the personal and material records of twelve of the premier aristocratic families in the nine county region as a case study to examine changes in the family life, artistic and architectural patronage, and leisure practises of these families. The thesis does not seek to provide a comprehensive cultural history of the aristocracy; however, the discussions contained within this work are relevant to the wider aristocratic and elite culture of Ulster, Ireland, and Britain, and reflect the growing awareness of the landed classes of the rapid social changes of the time. While the study is in many ways central to examinations of contemporary aristocratic culture in Ireland and Britain, the specific intention of the work is to illuminate the (as yet) underexplored lives of these families. The families under examination demonstrate in their patterns of family life, artistic and architectural involvement, and leisure, both an adherence to a wider British-led ‘cultural unionism’, and a growing sense of their distinctive ‘Ulster’ identity. Additionally, the enormous wealth and exalted status of these families set them apart from their less privileged neighbours. The social, financial, and geographical place of these families within the United Kingdom influenced their culture in a distinctive way during this period. By offering a new focus for the study of the history of the north of Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries, this thesis seeks to open up an area of study that has been largely neglected by historians. The topics of discussion have been chosen to engage with some of the more marked weaknesses in the existing historiography, and also to reflect those areas in which archival and material sources are most abundant. The intention of the thesis is to examine the ways in which these families took an active part in adapting their culture during this period. By altering their patterns of consumption and movement to suit contemporary changes, and harnessing and manipulating ideas about the place of the elite within the wider British social climate, these families worked to retain their relevance into the 20th century. The goal of this thesis is to begin to construct what has been termed an ‘occupied past’: the work seeks to provide, not a set of political and economic changes and an analysis of the responses to these challenges, but new research and discussion that more clearly reflects the day-to-day existences of these powerful and privileged families during a period of profound social, political, and economic change.