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Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the UK
(Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2004)
Child sexual abuse is a significant social problem is Ireland and the UK.
Research shows that there are significant differences between the
reporting of sexual offences in the process and the reality of such offences
on ...
Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)
This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ...
Passages in Time Traversed, Passages in Text Unwritten: A Theoretical Approach to Martin Amis's Time's Arrow
(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009)
The Library of an Irish Catholic Émigré: Michael Moore’s Bibliothèque, 1726
(Catholic Historical Society of Ireland, 2004)
Intellectual Imposters?- We Should be so Lucky!:Towards an Irish Public Sphere
(Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009)
Looking back on the challenge posed to critical theory by the publication in 1999 of Sokal and Bricmont’s book, Intellectual Impostures, this essay argues that the latter was at least evidence of the ongoing vitality of ...
Winterwood: A Portrait of the Artist as a Postmodern Pariah
(Peter Lang, 2008)
Postmodernism is often seen as following sequentially from modernism but I would agree with Lyotard’s contention that postmodernism is actually ‘a part of the modern.’ Lyotard goes on to state that a work ‘can become modern ...
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 ...
Sub-Recent Changes in Annual Average Water Level in the Shannon Estuary, Western Ireland
(Journal of Coastal Research, 2006)
This paper describes results to date on work to reconstruct the pattern of sub-recent water level changes within the Shannon Estuary, western Ireland. The main database for the study covers the period 1949 to 2002, and ...
Aspects of Socio-Economic Development in Limerick City since 1970: A Geographers Perspective
(Geography Publications, 2009)