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Desmond Gillmor is a Fellow Emeritus in Geography at Trinity College Dublin. His research interests are general economic geography, with specialisation in agriculture and other primary activities, resource use, rural geography and tourism. Professor Gillmor is co-editor of Rural Land Use on the Atlantic Periphery of Europe: Scotland and Ireland (1994).