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The 4th Earl of Dunraven, 1841–1926: a study of his contribution to the emerging Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2003)
The 4th earl of Dunraven was born in Adare in 1841 into one of the wealthiest landed families in Ireland. Succeeding to the title in 1871 he was the quintessential Irish peer, engrossing himself in travel and adventure, ...
English and Pictish terms for brooch in an 8th-century Irish law-text
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2004)
Doing gender history visually
(Irish Academic Press, 2009)
A review of "The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921" by Mary C. Kelly (Pre-Published Version)
(Oxford University Press, 2006)
Mary C. Kelly's study of what she terms the creation of “a transatlantic identity” adds much to the broadening study of the Irish American experience in the post‐Famine decades. Her central thesis challenges that of other ...
Towards a farewell: A brief life
(Four Courts Press, 2006)
Building Irish identity in America 1870-1915
(Four Courts Press, 2003)
The possibility of love: an inter-disciplinary analysis
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2008)
The aim of this thesis is to address the question of love’s possibility as it is explored in a selection of literature from the disciplines of philosophy, psychoanalysis and poetry. The works of nine authors, selected from ...
The early history of Knowth
(Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
What's in a name? - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)
This paper looks at the use of vocatives across two corpora: the 5-million word Cambridge
and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and a 55,000-word
corpus of radio phone-in calls. 100 vocatives are sampled ...
Ireland in Theory: the Influence of French Theory on Irish Cultural and Societal Development
(Peter Lang, 2004)
This essay argues that the advent of French literary and cultural theory, specifically the work of Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, has been responsible for some of the accelerated social changes that Ireland has ...