FACULTY OF ARTS: Recent submissions
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The gravity of oppositions: the life and art of Thomas Hardy
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)A narrative derived from the life and work of a writer can offer deeper insight than looking at his work as a separate study. To concentrate biographically on the superficial details of Hardy’s life and times without ... -
La fabrique d’un roi: les représentations de Louis XIV pendant son enfance et sa première jeunesse (1638-1661) dans la fiction littéraire en France de la Révolution à Alexandre Dumas
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This doctoral thesis proposes a study of fictional representations of the young dauphin and monarch Louis XIV in literary fiction in France from the Revolution to Alexandre Dumas. It specifically examines the portrayal of ... -
‘One law, many justices: an examination of the magistracy in Pre-Famine Ireland, 1830-1846’
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This thesis examines the role of magistrates in pre-Famine Ireland, examining their relations with one another, with central government, and with local society. It considers the role of the magistracy in enforcing law and ... -
Class, religion and society in Limerick City, 1922-1939
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)This study focuses on the civil society which existed in Limerick City between the signing of the Treaty and the outbreak of the Second World War. The purpose of the thesis is to examine this civil society outside of the ... -
Hurry up baby son all the boys is finished their breakfast: A socio-pragmatic analysis of Irish settled and Traveller family discourse
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2010)The present study utilises an integrative theoretical approach that combines variational pragmatics and community of practice to examine two corpora representing spoken language collected in the home/family environment: ... -
A shabby old couple: Seamus Heaney's ekphrastic imperative (Pre-published version)
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Du rayonnement a l’eclipse, l’image mediatique et institutionnelle de casimir delavigne (1793-1843)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis, entitled « From radiance to eclipse, Casimir Delavigne’s media image », throws light on the career of this now-forgotten author. It completes and continues the research begun with the Colloque « Casimir Delavigne ... -
Seeing ourselves in stained glass - a comparative study of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish stained glass.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)The aims of this thesis are to examine how biblical themes in the stained glass in 20th century Irish churches reflect re-emerging Catholic identity. In order to do this it focuses on two Roman Catholic buildings – Loughrea ... -
What you see is what you get, but do you get what you see: Higher education students’ evaluation of the credibility of online information.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)Information literacy involves the ability to find, access, evaluate, organise and store information in a variety of media, though there is as yet no consensus on a precise definition. This thesis, set in the context of ... -
The dance of joy: Nietzsche’s metaphysics of becoming & tragic wisdom.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This thesis seeks to establish Nietzsche as a Metaphysician of Becoming, as a foreseer of the immanence of eternity and in turn to establish a deep correlation between his writing style and his account of an eternity that ... -
An evaluation of Hans Urs von Balthasar’s critique of Karl Rahner’s theology of the cross
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)This work offers examines the theology of the cross found in Karl Rahner’s writings, with particular regard to Hans Urs von Balthasar’s critique of this area of Rahner’s work . This work maintains that Karl Rahner does ... -
Postcolonial Passages: Migration and Cinematic Form in Michael Haneke’s "Hidden" and Alan Gilsenan’s "Zulu 9"
(Taylor and Francis, 2011)This essay examines two recent cinematic productions from France and Ireland, respectively: Michael Haneke’s Hidden and Alan Gilsenan’s Zulu 9. These two films are considered comparatively in terms of migration, postcolonial ... -
Rites of Passage: Migrancy and the Liminality in Colum McCann’s "Songdogs" and "This Side of Brightness"
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2008)This article deals with two novels by the Irish writer Colum McCann: Songdogs and This Side of Brightness. Reading the narratives of both texts through the work of anthropologist Victor Turner, the essay reveals how ... -
Ireland, Empire and Utopia: Irish Postcolonial Criticism and the Utopian Impulse
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2010)This article is a response to Bill Ashcroft’s ‘Critical Utopias’, which appeared in this journal in 2007. In his earlier piece, Ashcroft offered a summary genealogy of the historical and literary historical links between ... -
Being 'Good' fans in 'Bad Times':Irish fans of the US television drama The West Wing and the reflexive negotiation of personal and collective identity at a time of political and social crisis
(2016-01-09)Much contemporary theory posits a relationship between the consumption of cultural and media artefacts and the construction and negotiation of individual and collective identities. An additional debate concerns whether ... -
"Prison-paradise"?: das internat als entwick-lungsraum in deutschsprachigen romanen nach 1968
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)The PhD thesis at hand is entitled “Prison-Paradise? The boarding school as space for individuation in German-language novels after 1968”. It is about the literary depiction of disciplinary institutions and their speci-fic ... -
The presence of Christ in the Eucharist: a strange neglect of the Resurrection?
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)Eminent theologians, Gerald O’Collins, Anthony J. Kelly and Luis M. Bermejo claim that a strange neglect of Jesus’ resurrection persists in contemporary theologies of the Eucharist. All three suggest that this deficiency ... -
Iniúchadh ar ghnéithe den fhantaisíocht i ngearrscéalta Mhichíl Uí Chonghaile
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015-11-06)Is í bunaidhm an tsaothair seo ná iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar ghnéithe den fhantaisíocht i ngearrscéalta Mhichíl Uí Chonghaile, An Fear a Phléasc (1997), An Fear Nach nDéanann Gáire (2003) agus an cnuasach nua-fhoilsithe ... -
'Against the rest': fanzines and alternative music cultures in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)This thesis investigates the role of fanzines in developing music communities in Ireland. It explores these fan-produced texts from the emergence of the first Irish punk fanzines in 1977 to the present, questioning their ...