Kenny, Kevin John

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“…Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted on separate constructs. Values of CFI > .90 and RMSEA < .10 were considered acceptable model fit, and RMSEA < .05 indicated good fit (Browne & Cudeck, 1993;Kenny, 2015). Reliability was assessed using the Composite Reliability Ω index, similar to Cronbach's alpha, and well suited for SEM (Hayes & Coutts, 2020).…”

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The influence of socioeconomic status, working memory and academic self-concept on academic achievement

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There is today ample evidence that academic achievement depends on individual disparities in socioeconomic status (SES), working memory (WM) and academic self-concept (ASC). However, because these factors were investigated intensively but in separate fields of research in the past four to six decades, their relationships remain largely unknown. The present study investigated whether SES, WM and ASC interact with each other or represent independent contributions to academic achievement in 2379 adolescents in middle and high schools. The findings confirmed previous results showing that students with lower SES, lower WM, and lower ASC perform less well on academic tests. Above all, they revealed subtle patterns of mediating processes. Specifically, individual differences in WM processing, and to a lesser extent in ASC accounted for most part of the negative impact of low SES on academic achievement. These findings indicate that being a member of disadvantaged groups impair both WM processing and ASC, and provide a clearer picture of the complex involvements of socioeconomic, cognitive and self-perception factors in academic achievement.

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“…The ship's owners placed a saloon at the disposal of Irish manufacturers for the display of many Irish goods while the ship was in New York harbour, and buyers for the big Manhattan department stores had to visit it there. 64 To the very end of negotiations with the British in London, Griffith had pushed for economic freedom. The agreement for a Treaty was signed in London at 2.20 in the morning on 6 December 1921.…”

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‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921

Kenny¹

2022

Irish Economic and Social History

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Arthur Griffith founded Sinn Féin. From 1899 onwards, through detailed articles in his weekly papers and otherwise, he strongly advocated the economic development of Ireland and the adoption of qualified protectionism to achieve it. As minister for foreign affairs in the revolutionary government of Ireland in 1921, he chaired the Irish delegation that negotiated with Lloyd George's government articles of agreement for an Anglo-Irish Treaty. In January 1922 he was elected president of Dáil Éireann, the revolutionary Irish parliament, but died suddenly in August 1922 before the new Irish Free State formally came into existence. This essay underlines the importance that he attached to economic affairs, not least in making fiscal autonomy a central ambition of his negotiations with the British. The author concludes that Griffith was far-sighted, and calls for a discrete and empathetic study of his economic ideas.

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“…10 When the first potato crop failure occurred in 1845, the Irish population depended heavily on this staple crop as their primary dietary component.. 11 The cause of this crop failure was a late blight, a biological disease which turned the inside of an otherwise healthy potato into inedible, black mush. 12 That first winter, only the poorest felt the effects. By the end of 1847, known as "Black '47", the crop failures had caused a humanitarian and economic crisis across the entire island.…”

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“…21 The Buffalo Irish settled mostly in the First Ward neighborhood south of the city, a neighbourhood which sat adjacent to the shipping district. 22 As they established themselves in a new city and a new nation, Irish Americans did not abandon or forget their former homes, nor did they wholly replace their old political beliefs with new ones.…”

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Fenians Over the Niagara: Irish Nationalism and Rebellion in Nineteenth Century Buffalo, NY

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2023

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After the American Civil War, the United States faced yet another political crisis. Rather than being caused by slavery, this crisis was brought about by an international radical political group: the Fenians. Famous in the annals of Irish history, the Fenians were the embodiment of pro-independence radical Irish politics during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Moreover, the Fenians found popularity among America’s newly arrived Irish inhabitants. In 1866, years of fund raising, meeting, and planning culminated when a group of roughly two-thousand Irish-Americans crossed the Niagara River from Buffalo, NY to Fort Erie, Canada with the goal of seizing the Welland Battery, and Fort Erie itself. This invasion, which was meant to help bring about Irish independence by capturing British-controlled Canada, failed. While some escaped, those captured in Canada were tried for their crimes and sentenced to either imprisonment to execution. American Fenians who escaped into American territory continued their efforts into the 1880s. These little-known events represent the degree to which Irish political culture crossed the Atlantic and thrived among the American-Irish. This study examines radical Irish political activity in Buffalo, NY in the decades before the Fenian Raids, and analyses their aftermath. While studies of American immigrant political culture are most often concerned with organized labor and political graft, Irish immigrants saw themselves as a part of a larger international “Irish Nation,” and saw little conflict between their dual identities, and used their geographic proximity to a major British territory to their advantage.

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Kenny, Kevin John

Cited by 5 publications

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The influence of socioeconomic status, working memory and academic self-concept on academic achievement

The influence of socioeconomic status, working memory and academic self-concept on academic achievement

‘A Man Who Has Both Arms’: Arthur Griffith, the Economy and the Anglo-Irish Treaty Agreement 1921

Fenians Over the Niagara: Irish Nationalism and Rebellion in Nineteenth Century Buffalo, NY

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