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Antihero as National Icon? The Contrariness of Roy Keane as Fantasy Embodiment of the ‘New Ireland’.
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The anxiety of influence: Heaney and Yeats and the place of writing (Pre-published version)
(Nordic Journal of Irish Studies, 2004)This essay compares and contrasts the writing of William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney in terms of their respective enunciations of place. Both writers have a pluralist and emancipatory sense of place, and real places and ... -
Aor Phiarais Mhic Gearailt ar Sheán Paor
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Apparent randomness and chaotic non-linearity: change over time in the essays of a cohort of philosophy undergraduates
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)For most degree programmes in third-level education, the primary form of assessment is by written work submitted by the student to an assessor, either through formal, time-limited examinations or take-home essays. This ... -
The applicability of self-regulation theories in sport: Goal adjustment capacities, stress appraisals, coping, and well-being among athletes (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2016)Objectives: We examined a model, informed by self-regulation theories from the health psychology literature, which included goal adjustment capacities, appraisals of challenge and threat, coping, and well-being. Design: ... -
Applying CA to a modes analysis of third-level spoken academic discourse (Pre-published version)
(Peter Lang, 2007)Given the dominance of English as the main language of academia (and we acknowledge the political implications of this statement), an accurate pedagogical description of it is important for those of us who are attempting ... -
Applying corpus linguistics and conversation analysis in the investigation of small group teaching in higher education (Pre-published version)
(de Gruyter, 2012)In this paper, we consider how a combined corpus linguistics and conversation analysis methodology can reveal new insights into the relationship between interaction patterns, language use, and learning. The context of the ... -
An appreciative inquiry into coaches’ perspectives on the inclusion of young people with autism in sport clubs in Ireland
(2023-10-02)Background: Young people with autism spectrum difference (ASD) engage in fewer physical activities and participate less frequently in sport than their peers. To date, research has focused on the barriers to the participation ... -
Are Irish passport applicants in Britain becoming ‘more Irish’?
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Aristotle on efficient and final causes in Plato (Pre published)
(2022-11-09)In Metaphysics A 6, Aristotle claims that Plato only recognises formal and material causes. Yet, in various dialogues, Plato seems to use and distinguish efficient and final causes too. Consequently, Harold Cherniss accuses ... -
Arrival and Departure:"Fishing the Sloe-Black River" (1994)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)‘Fishing the Sloe-Black River’, the title story of McCann’s first published collection, appeared in print a year before the complete volume of stories was published by Phoenix House. The quasi-magic realist narrative was ... -
“An art that knows its mind”: prayer, poetry and post-Catholic identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings”
(Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014)Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings” sequence from his 1991 collection Seeing Things speaks of the “virtue of an art that knows its mind”. This sequence attempts to know the mind in both its immanent and transcendent aspects, through ... -
The arts in education charter and its implementation
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Arts in education within Irish cultural policy: the “ins” and “outs” (Pre-published version)
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Aspects of pitch structure and pitch selection in post-war Irish composition: an analytical study of tonal and post-tonal referential collections in selected works by Irish composers
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2002)This dissertation examines aspects of pitch structure, processes of pitch selection and the treatment of referential collections in the works of selected post-war Irish composers. The first chapter reviews the literature ... -
Aspects of Socio-Economic Development in Limerick City since 1970: A Geographers Perspective
(Geography Publications, 2009)