FACULTY OF ARTS: Recent submissions
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Focail agus foclóireacht T. O’ Neill Lane
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)Ba é Lane’s Larger English-Irish Dictionary / Foclóir Béarla-Gaedhilge (1915) an chéad mhórfhoclóir Béarla – Gaeilge a foilsíodh sa bhfichiú haois. Fear suaithinseach éirimiúil agus duine de na pearsanra is suimiúla ó ... -
Using lake sediment records to examine recent productivity in Lough Gur, Co. Limerick
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Lough Gur is a small, shallow lake located on limestone bedrock in County Limerick which has been classed as hypereutrophic in recent decades. The lake has no surface inflow and water level is maintained by groundwater and ... -
‘Seamus Heaney’
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Crediting the Poet: What Seamus Heaney Means to Me”
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‘“Desidero ergo sum (I desire therefore I am)”: Towards a Psychoanalytic Reading of the Advertising of Perfume’, 2016, in Irish Communications Review,
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Holocene paleoenvironmental reconstruction in Galway Bay, a shallow coastal embayment along Ireland’s North-East Atlantic margin
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)Coastal environments are highly dynamic and complicated systems that vary spatially and temporally over a range of timescales. This study explores the paleoenvironmental changes recorded in sediment cores taken from Galway ... -
,,dass gestern besser werden würde als morgen je gewesen war": Zur Kodierung von Trauma in Jan Costin Wagner's Kimmo-Joentaa-Romanen
(2017)This thesis investigates a series of crime novels by German author Jan Costin Wagner. The series revolves around Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa who in the course of the series tries to deal with the loss of his wife. The ... -
Luathscríbhneoirí na hAthbheochana agus Saothrú an Phróis 1900-1916
(, 2017)Is éard atá sa saothar seo ná staidéar ar cheathrar de luathscríbhneoirí na hAthbeochana. Is iad na scríbhneoirí a bheidh faoi chaibidil ná: an tAthair Peadar Ó Laoghaire; an tAthair Pádraig Ó Duinnín; Pádraig Ó Séaghdha ... -
The life and networks of Pamela Fitzgerald, 1773-1831
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis assesses the life of Pamela Fitzgerald. Crucially, it will attempt to tell the story of Pamela Fitzgerald from her own perspective, rather than the viewpoint of her husband, which has dominated for so long. ... -
Searching for moral dumbfounding: identifying measurable indicators of moral dumbfounding
(2017)Moral dumbfounding is defined as maintaining a moral judgement, without supporting reasons. The most cited demonstration of dumbfounding does not identify a specific measure of dumbfounding and has not been published in ... -
Gaeltacht uíbh ráthaigh – prófíl dhéimeagrafach agus socheacnamaíochta socio-economic and demographic profile
(Údarás na Gaeltachta, 2017)Mary Immaculate College and Limerick Institute of Technology are pleased to present this report to Comhchoiste Uíbh Ráthaigh Teo and Údarás na Gaeltachta. The Report, which provides a demographic and socio-economic profile ... -
Diaspora and Rootedness, Amateurism and Professionalism in Media Discourses of Irish Soccer and Rugby in the 1990s and 2000s
(Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2013)This article explores the tensions between conceptualizations of the nation in terms of diaspora and rootedness, and between amateurism and professionalism, in Irish media discourses of Irish soccer and rugby in the 1990s ... -
Keeping Them Under Pressure: Masculinity, Narratives of National Regeneration and the Republic of Ireland Soccer Team
(Routledge, 2005)Since 1988 the Republic of Ireland soccer team has been cast, in Irish media, as both symbol and material example of social, economic and cultural regeneration in Ireland. This paper argues that such claims are narrative ... -
Let Ireland weep: poetry of loss in the First World War
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Negotiating multimodality in graphic narratives :an exploration of stream of consciousness techniques in Batman: The dark knight returns; Watchmen; and From hell
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis will address the narratological strategies that the graphic novels Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Watchmen, and From Hell employ in order to document the manner in which a stream of consciousness can be ... -
Religion, values, and secularization in Europe: a multilevel. cross-national, comparative analysis of the European Values Study Data
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the relationship between religion and values through an analysis of the four waves of the European Values Study 1981 -2008. The thesis engages with key conceptualisations and theorisations of the ... -
Once upon an ideology: exploring the ideologies and identities of female figures through a selection of classic and contemporary fairy tales
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis examines the ideologies and identities of women in selected traditional and contemporary fairy tales. It does this by utilising existing folklore theory but also by drawing on various literary theory theoretical ... -
Truth, being and the work of art: reflections on Heidegger's and Gadamer's interpretations of the tradition
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis addresses the fundamental and interrelated questions of truth and being, which have occupied Western philosophical thought since the time of the Ancient Greeks, giving particular attention to how they relate ... -
Traversing the abyss: saintliness and the quest for meaning in Tolstoy and Nietzsche
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)The positions of Nietzsche and Tolstoy as 'prophets of dissent' in relation to modern culture and modern civilization is now widely recognised (Riser, 2006: passim), and in that broad sense their status as two of the most ...