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- 1978-1981 (Creation)
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Simon Dalby was educated at Trinity College, Dublin (BA) and the University of Victoria, Canada (MA) and holds a PhD from Simon Fraser University of British Columbia, Canada. He was Professor of Geography, Environmental Studies and Political Economy at Carleton University in Ottawa until 2012, when he joined Wilfrid Laurier University’s Balsillie School of International Affairs as professor of Geography and Environmental Studies. His research interests include climate change, environmental security and geopolitics, on which topics he has published extensively.
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Press cuttings from the Cork Examiner, Daily Telegraph, Evening Echo, Guardian, In Dublin, Irish Times, Sunday Independent, Sunday Press, Sunday Times and Sunday Tribuneoriginally contained in a folder marked ‘Miscellaneous Press Cuttings’. Topics include the continuing oil crisis in Ireland and abroad; ESB inter-union dispute; alternative energy sources; search for oil off the Irish coast (Kinsale, Dublin and the Aran Islands); proposal to build a nuclear power station at Carnsore Point; threat of nuclear war; incidents at power stations abroad; explosion on board of an oil tanker in Cork Harbour; new ESB hydro turbo generator at Parteen Weir; Ballingarry anthracite mines; and the burning runaway Ixtoc I oil-well in the Gulf of Mexico. Also a four-page issue entitled Local Elections 1979 produced by the Socialist Labour Party. In sixteen folders.
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- English