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Surname formation in Ireland: Discussion, debates and DNA
(SNSBI [Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland], 2013)
John Henry Newman and Ludwig Wittgenstein: on certainty and faith
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
The roles of certainty and faith have been very much divided in modern times by the positions allocated them under an all-consuming positivistic account of human processes. It is ironic that this view, which stems from ...
Urban specialisation complementarity and spatial development strategies on the island of Ireland.
(Institute of Public Administration, 2013)
Complementarity is one of the key concepts underlying the spatial
development strategies introduced on the island of Ireland a decade ago.
While neither Northern Ireland’s Regional Development Strategy nor
Ireland’s ...
How does the left hand know what the right hand is doing?: An investigation of the mechanisms underpinning the intermanual transfer of acquired skilled hand movement as postulated by the Proficiency, Callosal Access and Cross Activation Models.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
This thesis proposes that the data conflicts observed in studies of three models of intermanual transfer (the Proficiency Model (Laszlo, Baguley, & Bairstow, 1970), the Callosal Access Model (Taylor & Heilman, 1980) and ...
'Mercy and righteousness have met': literary structure as key to the centrality of mercy in Romans
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
The aim in presenting this dissertation is to establish the thesis that one fundamental literary structure identifiable in Romans provides a clue to a satisfactory reading of the Letter. By ‘satisfactory reading’ I mean a ...
The role of self-regulatory individual differences in counterfactual thinking
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
The aim of this research was to investigate the role of self-regulatory individual
differences in counterfactual thinking. In particular, we examined individual
differences in autonomy, action/state orientation and ...
Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf
(Mary Immaculate College, 2013)
Fritz Kortner, the celebrated actor both on stage and screen, left increasingly anti-Semitic and right-wing Germany in 1932 and moved with his young family from Berlin to Ascona in Switzerland. In his autobiography Aller ...
Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)
(Oxford Academic, 2013)
In a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with ...
Maternity services in the Irish mass media: an analysis of media content from 2007–2012
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2013)
The mass media play a key role in informing the public about matters of public interest and, critically, in the actual shaping of public opinion about those matters. With this in mind, the purpose of this study was to ...
'Further up and further in': Biblical themes and imagery in C.S. Lewis' The chronicles of Narnia
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
Clive Staples Lewis is one of the most popular and renowned authors and lay theologians of the twentieth century. Lewis is best known for The Chronicles of Narnia series, which has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. ...