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An assessment of algal biodiversity and water quality in Loughs Atedaun, Cullaun and Inchiquin, three lakes on the river Fergus.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)This study uses limnological techniques and numerical methods to examine the periphyton and phytoplankton assemblages of Lough Atedaun, Cullaun and Inchiquin. Monthly and seasonal variations in periphyton and phytoplankton ... -
At the Frontier of Language: Literature, Theory, Politics
(Minerva, 1996)This essay examines the problematics of language and identity. Beginning with a deconstructive reading of Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Broagh’, it moves on to deconstruct the signifier of Ulster, showing how the use of this term, ... -
At the hands of the Brothers: a corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of stance in newspaper reporting of child sexual abuse (Pre-published version)
(Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007)Over the last twenty years, the Irish people were confronted with a series of scandalous revelations about clergy and religious in Ireland; starting with the discovery that Eamonn Casey, while Bishop of Kerry, had fathered ... -
Audio production in youth work: an international comparative case study between Irish and South African community radio stations
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)In this dissertation I examine the potential for audio production in a youth development setting, located within a community radio station. In particular I explore how participation in audio training can offer participants ... -
Augustine of Hippo
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Balanced Regional Development Polycentrism and the Urban System of the West of Ireland.
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'Because she was a girl': Gender identity and the postcolonial in James Joyce's 'Eveline'
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Becoming a Viking: DNA testing, genetic ancestry and placeholder identity (pre-print version)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)A consensus has developed among social and biological scientists around the problematic nature of genetic ancestry testing, specifically that its popularity will lead to greater genetic essentialism in social identities. ... -
Beginnings: Virginia Woolf’s 'Melymbrosia' and Rebecca West’s 'The Sentinel'
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Being 'Good' fans in 'Bad Times':Irish fans of the US television drama The West Wing and the reflexive negotiation of personal and collective identity at a time of political and social crisis
(2016-01-09)Much contemporary theory posits a relationship between the consumption of cultural and media artefacts and the construction and negotiation of individual and collective identities. An additional debate concerns whether ... -
The Belavin-Drinfeld theorem on non-degenerate solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation
(IOP Publishing, 2010)We give a coordinate free proof of Belavin and Drinfeld's Theorem about the classi cation of non-degenerate solutions of the classical Yang-Baxter equation. The equivalence of different characterisations of non-degeneracy ... -
A Belgian town as Purgatory and an Irish gangster as Christ in Martin McDonagh's "In Bruges"
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‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft (Pre-print version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ... -
Benefit of social support for resilience-building is contingent on social context: Examining cardiovascular adaptation to recurrent stress in women
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)Abstract Previous work on social support and stress tolerance using laboratory-based cardiovascular stress response paradigms has suggested that perceived social support may be effective in building resilience in ... -
Benefits experienced by older people in group music-making activities
(Intellect, 2012-08-23)This article focuses on the reported benefits of participation in musical activities identified by people over the age of fifty, who participated in the Music for Life Project. The participants engaged in weekly musical ... -
Bernard Shaw, Henry Higgins, and the Irish diaspora
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BIFFOs, jackeens and Dagenham Yanks: county identity, "authenticity'' and the Irish diaspora (pre-print version)
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)Despite being an everyday point of reference in Irish discourse, the extent to which the county serves as a locus of identification has been oddly overlooked in the Irish studies literature. In particular, the persistence ... -
The bishop’s role of pastoral governance: its interpretation and reception by the Magisterium since Vatican II
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis will assess the interpretation and reception of the bishop’s role of pastoral governance by the Magisterium since the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). Historically, this episcopal role had been increasingly ... -
'Blitzophrenia': Brendan Kennelly's post-colonial vision.
(Irish University Review, 2003)