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Contested goals and competing interests: freedpeople's education in North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861-1875
(2020-12-18)
This dissertation examines the growth and development of North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1875. In particular, it investigates who taught the freedpeople in ...
A Literary translation and critical analysis of Voltaire's "Prix de la justice et de l'humanité" (1777)
(2021-02-19)
On 1 October 1777, the Economic Society of Berne proposed a reform discussion in the Gazette de Berne, that required entrants to ‘compose and write a complete and detailed legislative proposal on criminal matters.’ As a ...
‘We think considerable improvement should be made.’ Irish insanity and the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1900
(2021-04-08)
The focus of this thesis is the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum (LDLA hereafter), its interconnected institutions and the people who used them. Established in 1827, LDLA was Ireland’s first large-scale provincial district ...
"Do you see this woman" (Luke 7:44). The multi-faceted witness of women in Luke's gospel
(2021-04-07)
The open question that is posed in this research, seeks to ascertain what the women
exemplify as they interact with Jesus in the Lukan Gospel. How does Jesus engage them
and what aspects of discipleship and response do ...
Re:membrance of Absence Disrupting perceptions of Jewish and minority identity in Ireland through theatre
(2021-03-30)
This research examines social, historical and theoretical reasons that have contributed to the noticeable omission of minority voices, specifically Jewish voices, from Irish theatre narratives to date. The creation of the ...
The creativity of life: Husserl, Henry and beyond
(2021-04-06)
This work investigates the nature of transcendental subjectivity, and whether and how
the subject can endeavour to know and attest to its absolute foundation with its essential
structures. Towards this end, I take up the ...
The realm of mimesis : a contemporary interpretation of the orality/writing issue in relation to the ontology of the image in Plato
(2020-01-22)
This thesis enquires into the vexed issue of the relation between the criticism of orality and the criticism of writing in Plato’s works. The main aim is to argue that this relation, often read as an opposition, is grounded ...
The role of Christian faith in the lives of a cohort of Catholic primary school principals in the Republic of Ireland
(2021-02-19)
Principals, as ‘gatekeepers’ in Catholic primary schools (CPSs), are at the nexus of change in relation to faith and culture. These changes include a political impetus for a more diverse patronage system for primary schools, ...
A palaeoecological analysis of late quaternary sapropels from the Mediterranean Ridge
(2020-12-18)
A PALAEOECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF LATE QUATERNARY SAPROPELS FROM THE MEDITERRANEAN RIDGE
By Darren Barry
The sedimentary sequences of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea are interspersed by blackcoloured, organic rich ...
Symmetric frameworks in normed spaces
(Elsevier, 2020-12-15)
We develop a combinatorial rigidity theory for symmetric bar-joint frameworks in a general finite dimensional normed space. In the case of rotational symmetry, matroidal Maxwell-type sparsity counts are identified for a ...