FACULTY OF ARTS: Recent submissions
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Environmental Justice, Childhood Deprivation and Urban Regeneration.
(Royal Irish Academy, 2014)The notion of environmental justice is connected to the ways in which the goods (and conversely the 'bads') of society are distributed, both socially and spatially. The concept has been most strongly developed in the US, ... -
Regionalisation and the Geography of Poverty
(Poverty Today, 1999-04)There are been considerable debate on regionalisation since the Government's decision to divide the country into two regions to maximize EU structural aid and the subsequent EU decision to confer Objective 1 status on a ... -
A Neighbourhood-level View of Area-Based Interventions
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)The rapid increase in the numbers and ranges of state-funded area-based interventions (ABIs) in recent years has been documented in Chapter 6. These interventions and the associated fundings streams are mixed and matched ... -
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ... -
Arrival and Departure:"Fishing the Sloe-Black River" (1994)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)‘Fishing the Sloe-Black River’, the title story of McCann’s first published collection, appeared in print a year before the complete volume of stories was published by Phoenix House. The quasi-magic realist narrative was ... -
Introduction Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)At the beginning of the RTÉ Arts Lives documentary, ‘Colum McCann – Becoming a New Yorker’ (2009), Colum McCann asks, selfconsciously, why anyone would want to follow him around with a camera and make a film about his life ... -
Passion and Arrogance: Poetic Craft and Topographies of Remembrance in the Work of Michael Hartnett
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2005)In his seminal study, Oral Tradition as History, Jan Vansina argues that landscape is properly viewed as a layered and richly textured depository of both individual and communal memory. The landscape is implicated in the ... -
Language Change and Ideology in Irish Radio Advertising
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 2016-11)Language ideologies have been defined as ‘sets of representations through which language is imbued with cultural meaning for a certain community’. These representations can be seen as ‘ways of understanding the world that ... -
Limerick after the downturn: contemporary demographic & socio-economic geography of the urban area
(National Institute for Regional and Spatial Analysis, 2014)This is the third in a series of census atlases of Limerick produced over the course of the last decade by the Department of Geography in Mary Immaculate College, under commission by Limerick City Council. The latest version ... -
The English grammar profile of learner competence: Methodology and key findings
(John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017)The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) (Council of Europe 2001a) is an established benchmark for language competence (Jones & Saville 2009). It comprises six levels of competence from A1 (lowest) ... -
Supporting enterprise development in rural areas
(Teagasc, 2014)There are many types of rural areas – each with their own distinctive development needs and resource potentials. Consequently, enterprise development strategies need to avoid a ‘one size fits all approach,’ and must take ... -
Standard Southern British English as referee design in Irish radio advertising
(Linguistics Journal, 2016)The exploitation of external as opposed to local language varieties in advertising can be associated with a history of colonization, the external variety being viewed as superior to the local (Bell 1991: 145). Although ... -
"Listen to the Leaves": Derek Mahon's Evolving Ecologies
(Wayne State University Press, 2016)“New York Time,” previously “The Hudson Letter” (1996), opens in “Winter,” and the poetic speaker is awoken amid snow and ice in New York City to the combined but competing strains of “the first bird and the first garbage ... -
“A Crooked Mark” - An Examination of the Effectiveness of Using Authentic Materials in Teaching Apostrophe Use in an ELT Context.
(2018-02-07)This thesis focuses on two types of teaching intervention, prescriptive and descriptive, to determine which type may be more beneficial to English language learners in learning correct apostrophe application. The role ... -
Exploring Synchronous Online Communication and its Effect on Non-Native Speakers of English
(2018-02-07)It is estimated that there are 1.5 billion people worldwide who speak English, of whom only 375 million are native speakers (Statista 2016). Jenks (2012) notes that the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is growing ... -
Content and Language Integrated Learning in Italian upper secondary schools – A Case Study
(2018-02-07)The term ‘Content and Language Integrated Learning’ (CLIL) was coined in the mid-1990’s to describe and enhance practices in content-based language learning (Coyle, Hood, & Marsh, 2010). The rapid integration of Europe ... -
Communities, collaboration, cohesion and centralization: contemporary insights from rural Ireland
(St.John's, Newfound and Labrador, 2015)The Republic of Ireland’s recent experience of profound economic, social, cultural, and political change and its remarkable journey from relative poverty to boom and then bust have been well documented. While much of the ... -
„Und wer den Schmerz einmal gesehen hat…”: Neue deutsche Jugendliteratur zum Nationalsozialismus, Zweiten Weltkrieg und Holocaust im Kontext des postmemorialen Wandels
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick and the University of Groningen, 2015)Personal and collective memories of violence and warfare are part of broader discursive processes that are subject to constant reinterpretations and remediations from the perspective of the present. Engaging with the ... -
From dolls to demons: exploring categorisations of the female figure in Gothic literature through a selection of nineteenth and twentieth century texts
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis will examine various representations of female agency and identity in both classic and contemporary selected Gothic texts. It will use feminist, psychoanalytic and selected aspects of literary theory in order ... -
An examination of female characterisation in a selection of the novels and short stories of William Trevor through the lens of Simone de Beauvoir
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis aims to examine female characterisation in a selection of William Trevor’s novels and short stories. The core argument in this thesis will be to demonstrate that Trevor, in his portrayal of women, presents a ...