FACULTY OF ARTS: Recent submissions
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An introduction to local and global health behaviors using a Collaborative Online International Learning exchange
(University of Groningen Press, 2023-11)Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) uses technology to facilitate the engagement of students from different countries in collaborative coursework and sharing of cultural perspectives. This practice paper ... -
Queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits
(2023-11-03)Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Ecofeminism: Inception; Development and Challenges Chapter 2: On De-Essentialising Ecofeminism Chapter 3: Gendered Climate Politics: Between the Far Right and Social ... -
‘Trying to draw a map of a child’s mind’: a study of the influence of childhood experience on the literary works of J. M. Barrie through a Freudian lens
(2023-10-27)This project aims to investigate what lies beneath the surface of J. M. Barrie’s work, from his representation of fictional characters to his subtle references to perplexing themes in his diary entries and factual recollections ... -
A literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female Irish writers and critical social events in Ireland 1984-2022
(2023-10-25)This thesis examines the treatment of women in Irish society through a cultural and literary approach. The analysis includes a variety of literature dating from 1936 to 2015. The authors discussed are all female: Teresa ... -
Constitutionally codified, the myth of the maternal in the national imaginary
(2023-10-25)This thesis will address Article 41.2 of the Constitution to examine how it affected Irish women for the succeeding eighty years. It will draw from De Valera’s ideology of nation building in 1937, which situated women in ... -
A complicated birth: the Northern Ireland Ministry of Education, 1921-1925
(2023-10-25)The primary purpose of this thesis is to establish the extent to which the development of the nascent Ministry of Education (M.O.E.) in Northern Ireland (N.I.) was defined by its relationship with the Roman Catholic (R.C.) ... -
Caomhnú, cruthaitheacht agus claochlú teanga: cás-staidéar ar leagan cainte (1995-2000)
(2023-10-24)Is é príomhchuspóir an taighde seo scrúdú a dhéanamh ar leaganacha agus ar fhocail a bhíodh faoi chaibidil ag rannpháirtithe phainéal Leagan Cainte, d’fhonn is gur féidir cíoradh a dhéanamh ar fheiniméin teanga a bhaineann ... -
Revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in Irish gothic literature and historical documents
(2023-10-24)Colonial hybridity remains one of the most widely deployed and disputed literary theories within Postcolonial Studies. This thesis will provide an overview of colonial hybridity in Irish historical documents as well as ... -
Good grief: changing attitudes to childhood grief in children's literature
(2023-10-24)In the modern context, it is understood that childhood grief is a normal response to loss and that bereaved children require support and guidance to navigate their grief. However, less than a century ago it was believed ... -
Foreign language anxiety in the Irish third-level context and the potential of performative pedagogy for learners' of French
(2023-10-23)Who among us has never been lost in translation at one point or another when learning a language? Given its complex nature, the study of second language (L2) acquisition has become a largely interdisciplinary enterprise ... -
Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) in The Irish Quarterly Review, Duffy’s hibernian magazine, Duffy’s hibernian sixpenny magazine, the month and the Irish monthly: a study of nineteenth-century Irish women writers and their literary and publishing networks (1857-1893)
(2023-10-23)Anchored in the nineteenth-century periodical archive, this recovery project takes Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) as a centripetal force. An influential Irish Catholic middle-class writer and philanthropist, Atkinson lists ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ... -
The Irish question: an investigation into Irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults
(2023-10-23)The vast majority of adults that have received their education in Ireland undertake compulsory Irish for around 13 years. However, over 60% of adults claim to have no Irish speaking ability (CSO, 2018). This study seeks ... -
‘Jaysus, keep talking like that and you’ll fit right in’- an investigation of oral Irish English in contemporary Irish fiction
(2023-10-02)This project is an interdisciplinary and comparative investigation of the reproduction of linguistic features of Irish English (IrE) present in contemporary IrE fiction. To do this, a corpus of over 1 million words comprising ... -
"A form to accommodate the mess": a genetic (self-)translation study of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic writing
(2023-10-02)This thesis analyses the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s self-translated dramatic texts in order to better understand how an author recaptures the cadences, originality and political implications of his earlier versions ... -
A journey through learner language: tracking development using POS tag sequences in large-scale learner data
(2023-09-29)This PhD study comes at a cross-roads of SLA studies and corpus linguistics methodology, using a bottom-up data-first approach to throw light on second language development. Taking POS tag n-gram sequences as a starting ... -
Heidegger on truth and subjectivity: a nihilistic interpretation
(2023-09-29)This research offers an original interpretation of Heidegger's philosophy, which can be termed 'nihilistic' with reference to Heidegger's notion of nothingness and his reception of nihilism. The interpretation contributes ... -
An evaluation of the compatibility of mindfulness and ethos in the Irish Catholic primary school
(2023-09-25)Mindfulness has exploded in popularity across several elements of society, including healthcare, education and commerce. This growth in the practice is supported by an increasing body of research on the benefits of mindfulness ... -
Studying revolution: accounts of Mary Immaculate College, 1918-1923
(Limerick City and County Council, 2022-04-28)In 1921 the War of Independence entered its most violent phase and this has been reflected in Limerick City and County Council’s Decade of Centenaries programme this year. But against the backdrop of ambushes such as ... -
Survival and assimilation: loyalism in the interwar Irish Free State (Pre-published version)
(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022-12-03)In 1997, historian R. B. McDowell suggested that when “compared to the thorough methods for dealing with unpopular minorities … in eastern and central Europe and elsewhere, the harassment of loyalists was not notably ...