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The challenges facing pre-service education: Addressing the issue of mathematics subject matter knowledge among prospective primary teachers
(St. Patricks College, Dublin, 2007)Research has indicated that it is not necessary to study mathematics to degree level to teach mathematics effectively at primary level (Greaney et al, 1999; Cooney, 1999). Consensus exists however that graduating teachers ... -
The challenges that face the primary school teacher in coping with grief and loss in a multicultural setting
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Death is a fact of life. The primary school teacher is often at the forefront of the child’s life and therefore has to be able to help a child who has suffered a bereavement to cope with this loss. During my teaching ... -
Changes in roles and relationships in a school-university partnership
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The changing face of Irish gangsters (Pre-published version)
(gardareview.ie, 2014)Niamh Hourigan examines the true nature of gang crime in Ireland today and asks, has anything really changed post-austerity? -
Characterisation of viral proteins that inhibit TLR signal transduction (Pre-published version)
(Humana Press, 2009)Toll-like receptor (TLR) signalling involves five TIR adapter proteins, which couple to downstream protein kinases that ultimately lead to the activation of transcription factors such as nuclear factor-ĸB (NFĸB) and members ... -
Child protection in Irish primary schools: supports and challenges in the role of Designated Liaison Person for child protection
(Oxford University Press, 2022-03)This article reviews child protection in the Irish primary school context from the perspective of the Designated Liaison Person (DLP). Research undertaken with DLPs is presented which illuminates the supports and challenges ... -
Childcare regulations: regulatory enforcement in Ireland. What happens when the inspector calls? (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2014)Childcare regulations ensure children’s rights to Early Childhood Care and Education settings that protect them from harm and promote their healthy development. To ensure that settings comply, power is vested with regulatory ... -
Childhood interrupted: a story of loss, separation, and reconciliation (Pre-published version)
(Routledge, 2016)This essay presents a story of personal loss and childhood trauma experienced by the author in 1968. Written in autoethnographic form, the author narrates a particular time in his life when he lost his hearing and subsequently ... -
Children as data detectives
(INTO [Irish National Teachers Organisation], 2012)Transforming the teaching of data Is your experience of teaching data less than exciting? Do you think there is more to teaching data than making bar charts of children’s favourite colours? And pictograms of modes of ... -
Children negotiating their own beliefs: The religious education of young children in families in the Republic of Ireland (Pre-published version)
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China and India – the new powerhouses of the semi-periphery?
(Palgrave, 2009)This chapter argues that if the South American/ East Asian or state socialist model captured the post-war ‘model’ of the semi-periphery, then the post-cold war states of China and India embody a new ‘globalised’ form. ... -
Chivalry, Saracens and the chansons de geste of Brian Boru (Pre-published version)
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Christian communities in fifth and sixth century Ireland
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The church and the public sphere
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The church's social mission
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Citizens, Loopholes and Maternity Tourists: Irish Print Media Framing of the 2004 Citizenship Referendum.
(The Institute of Public Administration, 2006)