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Decommissioning the Canon: Towards a Deconstruction of the Givens of the Literary Canon
(Teaching Social Justice: Intercultural and Development Education Perspectives on Education’s Context, Content, 2003)
This essay examines the differences between high and popular culture, looking at Joyce and Heaney as synecdoches of cannon-creation and a resultant decommissioning of that canon. This is done through a deconstructive ...
Rationality and Poincaré families for vector bundles with extra structure on a curve (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2007)
Iterated Grassmannian bundles over moduli stacks of vector bundles
on a curve are shown to be birational to an affine space times a moduli
stack of degree 0 vector bundles, following the method of King and Schofield.
...
The Boden-Hu conjecture holds precisely up to rank eight (Pre-published version)
(Springer Verlag, 2004)
The Body as Ethical Synecdoche in the Writing of Seamus Heaney
(Irish Academic Press, 2006)
This essay examines the imaginative use of images of the violently abused body in the writing of Seamus Heaney. Looking at The Cure at Troy and The Burial at Thebes, this essay also looks at real bodies – victims of the ...
Seamus Heaney and the Ethics of Translation
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2003)
This essay deals with two of Heaney’s major translations, Sweeney Astray and The Cure at Troy, are connected in terms of their ability to enunciate the voice of the other as well as to convey increasingly more complex ...
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 ...
Sending gossoons to be made oul mollies of: Rule 127(b) and the feminisation of teaching in Ireland
(Taylor & Francis, 2006)
This article examines a decision known as Rule 127(b), taken in 1905 by the National Commissioners for Education in Ireland. The rule raised concerns about the displacement of male teachers and their replacement with poorly ...
A research and development strategy for Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (PCT) in North West London
(NIHS, 2002)
Rationale: There were three notable milestones for health research in England during the 1990s. The NHS R&D programme was
established and it prioritised research on themes such as the primary-secondary care interface and ...