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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 ...
Collaborative playful experimentation in Higher Education: a group ear playing study
(Sage Publications, 2016-08)
Exploring how western classical musicians could develop their aural, improvisatory and creative musicianship skills through playing by ear is an area that has recently received noteworthy attention within Higher Education. ...
The teacher as co-creator of drama: a phenomenological study of the experiences and reflections of Irish primary school teachers.
(Routledge, 2017-05-24)
Classroom drama in the Irish primary school context remains a relatively new endeavour and is largely under-researched. The knowledge base for all aspects of teacher education should be informed by rigorous reflection on ...
Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published)
(Springer Nature, 2018-07-31)
The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in ...
Flow, play, feel and creativity: some of the potential outcomes of playing by ear from a recording
(GIA Publications Inc, 2017)
Playing by ear from a recording is, in the history of human music-making, a relatively new activity, stemming as it does from only the last one hundred years or so, since the invention of audio recording and play-back ...
Bringing different generations together in music-making – an Intergenerational Music Project in East London
(Intellect, 2011-12-09)
This article describes an intergenerational music project that took place as part of a bigger project, entitled the Music for Life Project that explored the social and emotional benefits of music participation for people ...
Reimagining Tolkien: a post-colonial perspective on the Lord of the Rings
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
This thesis analyses J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings from a post-colonial perspective. An Oxford don and philologist, who was born in Bloemfontein, South Africa but spent the majority of his life in Britain, Tolkien ...
An Irish feminist chick lit? Examining the social and cultural contexts of Marian Keyes’ work
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)
This thesis will present a study of the work of Irish writer Marian Keyes in terms of her texts, and the cultural context of these texts. The nature of chick lit as a formulaic genre will be examined, and the ability of ...
Adaptation of English literature texts in the context of the Junior Certificate: a student-centred and theoretical interrogation.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)
The idea for this thesis first came to light while teaching my first year students the novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. I was asked why they had to read the novel when a film had already been made. In today‘s fast-paced ...
Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992): the Irish caricaturist who left her mark on East-German children’s literature (Pre-published)
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)
One of my favourite picture books as a child was Der kleine Angsthase, a present from an aunt who lived in the former German Democratic Republic. It was somewhat exotic, like everything else which arrived in the Christmas ...