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Exploring indices of national identity in a corpus of radio phone-in data from Irish radio (Pre-published version)
(University of Valencia Press, 2002)Radio phone-in has a reflexive function in bringing the voices of a community to a community. For those who telephone the programme, it provides interpersonal communication even if they do not ‘go on air’. For those who ... -
Exploring Synchronous Online Communication and its Effect on Non-Native Speakers of English
(2018-02-07)It is estimated that there are 1.5 billion people worldwide who speak English, of whom only 375 million are native speakers (Statista 2016). Jenks (2012) notes that the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is growing ... -
Exploring television as an exponent of pragmatic and sociocultural information in foreign language learning (Pre-published version)
(CILT Publications, 2000)It is increasingly recognised that being both fluent and accurate in a foreign language will not always guarantee successful communication between speakers. According to Hyde (1998: 10), in his discussion on intercultural ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ... -
The factorial validity and reliability of three versions of the aggression questionnaire using confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modelling (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2016)The Aggression Questionnaire (AQ) measures aggression in four domains: Anger, Hostility, Physical Aggression and Verbal Aggression. Moreover, a number of shorter versions of the AQ have emerged. The present study used a ... -
Factual fictions: an investigation into audience understandings of documentary
(2022-09-05)The aim of this thesis is to investigate audience understandings of documentary. A review of the relevant literature was carried out on the areas of: the Evolution of Documentary; Subjectivity, Objectivity and Truth; Reality ... -
Failure, guilt, confession, redemption? Revisiting unpublished research through a psychosocial lens (Pre-published version)
(The Association for Psychological Studies, 2017)This article offers some critical reflections on a case of failure to bring a qualitative research project to completion and publication earlier in the author’s career. Possible explanations are considered in light of ... -
Fanon's one big idea: Ireland and postcolonial studies
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2004)Postcolonial theory has been, and remains, one of the dominant modes of literary and cultural criticism within the broader discourse of Irish Studies. This thesis will provide a summary theoretical interrogation of the ... -
Fear of Social Isolation: Testing an Assumption from the Spiral of Silence
(Irish Communications Review, 2000)An untested assumption of the Spiral of Silence has been whether people’s fear of social isolation affects their willingness to voice their opinions in public, especially if their opinions are in the minority. It has also ... -
Fear, framing and foreigners: the othering of immigrants in the Irish print media
(Palgrave & Macmillan, 2006)Recent public attitudes research indicates that Ireland has witnessed both an increase in levels of intolerance generally and in racism in particular. Using a frame analysis approach this paper examines how the Irish print ... -
Feeding back feedback – Towards a cyclical model for learner support
(Ireland Aid and Centre for Educational Disadvantage Research, 2003) -
Figuring Phantasmagoria: The Tradition of the Fantastic in Irish Modernism.
(Used by permission © Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2011) -
Filíocht Sheacaibíteach Phiarais Mhic Gearailt
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Fired from the canon: Waking the feminists, the conference
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Five ideas for using authentic television clips (Pre-published version)
(FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)Television offers many opportunities for materials development. Below are five prototype lessons based around different genres of television material: soap opera; film; comedy; advertising and news broadcast. Before you ... -
Flow, play, feel and creativity: some of the potential outcomes of playing by ear from a recording
(GIA Publications Inc, 2017)Playing by ear from a recording is, in the history of human music-making, a relatively new activity, stemming as it does from only the last one hundred years or so, since the invention of audio recording and play-back ... -
Focail agus foclóireacht T. O’ Neill Lane
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)Ba é Lane’s Larger English-Irish Dictionary / Foclóir Béarla-Gaedhilge (1915) an chéad mhórfhoclóir Béarla – Gaeilge a foilsíodh sa bhfichiú haois. Fear suaithinseach éirimiúil agus duine de na pearsanra is suimiúla ó ... -
Football’s 'coming out' : Soccer and homophobia in England’s tabloid press .
(Media International Australia, 2011)This article examines the current contradictory discourses on homosexuality and soccer within the British (specifically English) newspaper media. While support ostensibly is given in the press to the eradication of homophobia ...