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Re-Presenting Christian Tradition as a Source of Inspiration and Integration for Educators in Catholic Schools—A Proposal
(Religions, 2021-01)Abstract: A significant challenge facing leaders of Catholic schools in Ireland today is to ensure an appreciation for, and understanding of, the Catholic identity of the school among members of staff. A first aim of ... -
Re:membrance of Absence Disrupting perceptions of Jewish and minority identity in Ireland through theatre
(2021-03-30)This research examines social, historical and theoretical reasons that have contributed to the noticeable omission of minority voices, specifically Jewish voices, from Irish theatre narratives to date. The creation of the ... -
Reaching student voice through the arts - insights from a transition year classroom
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)The purpose of this study was to work with a group of students to explore and evaluate their previous experiences and attitudes towards the arts. The research is premised on the understanding that young people are experts ... -
Read aloud experiences in a second language Arabic context: effects upon vocabulary acquisition (Pre-published version)
(TESOL Arabia, 2010)Teachers exhibit a variety of styles in reading aloud, which influences vocabulary development. This study examined the effects of two conditions on student’s second language English vocabulary acquisition: listening to ... -
Reading and writing at university – raising genre awareness as initiation into a discourse community (Pre-published version)
(Reading Association of Ireland, 2003)The theoretical concepts of 'genre' and 'discourse community' will be drawn on in this paper to evolve a theoretical model that we hope to apply to the context of academic writing and to attainment at third level. Genre ... -
Reading more deeply into EAL!
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The realm of mimesis : a contemporary interpretation of the orality/writing issue in relation to the ontology of the image in Plato
(2020-01-22)This thesis enquires into the vexed issue of the relation between the criticism of orality and the criticism of writing in Plato’s works. The main aim is to argue that this relation, often read as an opposition, is grounded ... -
Recharging the Canon: Towards a Literary Redefinition of Irishness
(Edwin Mellen Press, 2005)By adding volumes four and five as a supplement to its anthology, Field Day was both acknowledging its own attenuation of a tradition, and at the same time, valuing at another dimension, the very plurality of traditions ... -
The reclamation of the Shannon Estuary inter-tidal flats: A case study of the Clare Slobland Reclamation Company.
(The Geographical Society of Ireland, 2005)Extensive reclamation of the sloblands in the Shannon estuary have been under- taken over hundreds of years but particularly in the mid to late 1800s. There is extensive documentary evidence of the various reclamation ... -
Rediscovering our Regions
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Reflections on (of) nationalism
(Kairos, 1998)This project attempts to define the epistemological structure of nationalism and to suggest a theoretical model through which this can be done. I would argue that this theorization will apply to nationalism per se; however, ... -
Reflections on classic Gate plays by Mary Manning, Christine Longford, and Maura Laverty (Pre-published version)
(ISA [Irish Society for Archives], 2018)Last June, the Waking the Feminists organisation published Gender Counts (its eagerly-anticipated report on gender representation in Irish theatre), and the report confirmed what many Irish theatre fans suspected: during ... -
Reflections, Misrecognitions, Messianisms and Identifications: Towards an Epistemology of Irish Nationalism
(ABEI Journal: Brazilian Journal of Irish Studies, 2001)This essay examines the narrative source of Irish Republican ideology. By contrasting the nationalism and republicanism of the United Irishmen and the IRB of 1916, the contradictions and misrecognitions inherent in ... -
Refugee and asylum-seeker youths’ experiences of education in Ireland an interpretative phenomenological analysis
(2023-09-26)Background: School can play an important protective role in the lives of refugee youth. While a substantial body of research relates risk factors to subsequent psychosocial and educational outcomes for refugee youth, less ... -
Regional and local development in Ireland – the potential of LEADER partnerships to provide municipal government
(Lex Localis- Institute of local government and public procurement Maribor., 2009)Emerging economic and social challenges prompted EU and national authorities to initiate and support localised or area-based partnership approaches to development. Such approaches involve enabling representatives froth the ... -
Regionalisation and the Geography of Poverty
(Poverty Today, 1999-04)There are been considerable debate on regionalisation since the Government's decision to divide the country into two regions to maximize EU structural aid and the subsequent EU decision to confer Objective 1 status on a ... -
Regulatory disclosure and the Irish financial services ombudsman (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2018)This study investigates the effectiveness regulatory disclosure, specifically the power to name and shame persistently offending financial service providers (FSPs) in its annual reports awarded to the Irish Financial ... -
Reimagining Tolkien: a post-colonial perspective on the Lord of the Rings
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This thesis analyses J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings from a post-colonial perspective. An Oxford don and philologist, who was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa but spent the majority of his life in Britain, Tolkien ...