• Marx and sprectres: a hauntological exploration of the poetry of Seamus Heaney through the lens of Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx 

  Hickey, Ian (2024-10-11)

  This thesis will examine the spectral inheritances and hauntings that dwell within the poetry of Seamus Heaney. It will use hauntology, an idea first coined by Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx, as a way of locating and ...

• Anything but the ideal speaker listener in anything but a homogenous speech community: a study of communication through the medium of lingua franca English 

  Harrington, Kieran (2024-09-09)

  This thesis characterizes the English spoken as a lingua franca by a community of asylum seekers, none of whom spoke English as a native language, and it examines how they use this lingua franca to interact with the ...

• Connecting voices: an introduction to Irish women writers' collaborations and networks, 1880–1940 (Pre-published version) 

  Laing, Kathryn; Mooney, Sinéad; Ní Bheacháin, Caoilfhionn; Pilz, Anna; Standlee, Whitney; Stevens, Julie Anne (Routledge, 2023-07)

  Collaborations and networks are both the modus operandi and focus of investigation in this Special Issue on Irish women writers between 1880 and 1940. This introductory essay sets the scene for the discussions and ...

• Lost and found in the archives: Hannah Lynch and Dimitrios Vikélas Dublin, Athens, Paris: literary crossings and collaborations (Pre-published version) 

  Laing, Kathryn; Theodoropoulou, Iliana (Routledge, 2023-11)

  This essay illuminates a late nineteenth-century literary connection between Ireland and Greece, also revealing hitherto unexplored layers of the vibrant fin-de-siecle salon cultures in Paris and related literary and ...

• Queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits 

  Ourkiya, Asmae (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 

  O’Brien, Marie (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 

  Murphy, Madeleine (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 

  Murphy, Lorna (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 ...

• Revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in Irish gothic literature and historical documents 

  Gallagher, Stephen (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 

  Clifford, Rachel (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 ...

• 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) 

  Brassil, Geraldine (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 ...

• The Irish question: an investigation into Irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults 

  Barry, Shane (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 

  Terrazas-Calero, Ana Maria (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 journey through learner language: tracking development using POS tag sequences in large-scale learner data 

  Mark, Geraldine (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 ...

• Principled pattern curation to guide data-driven learning design 

  O'Keeffe, Anne; Mark, Geraldine (Elsevier, 2022-08-06)

  Insights from corpus linguistics (CL) have informed language learning and materials design, among many other areas. An important nexus between CL and language learning is the use of Data-Driven Learning (DDL), which draws ...

• Holding on to ‘rites, rhythms and rituals’: Mike McCormack’s homage to small town Irish life and death (Pre published) 

  Flynn, Deirdre (Springer Nature, 2018-07-31)

  The Goldsmith Award-winning Solar Bones is a novel focused on, and dedicated to, loss. As Marcus Conway comes to terms with his own death, he pays homage to the “rites, rhythms and rituals” that were part of his life in ...

• A corpus-based comparative pragmatic analysis of Irish English and Canadian English 

  Almuways, Yasir Sulaiman (2022-04-06)

  This PhD thesis is a comparative study of the spoken grammar of Irish and Canadian Englishes within the framework of Variational Pragmatics at the formal level, used to study the pragmatic variation (the intra-varietal ...

• Céad mίle fáilte: a corpus-based study of the development of a community of practice within the Irish hotel management training sector 

  Healy, Margaret (2022-04-05)

  This thesis examines the discourse of a unique third-level academic institution in order to identify the variety of linguistic features, which align it, first of all, to the higher education sector in general, but more ...

• A literary theoretical exploration of silenced African women from psychoanalytic and feminist perspectives 

  Kisweka, Deogratias (2022-04-01)

  The study explores the gender relationship in the three English speaking regions of Sub Saharan Africa through three novels: Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga; Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; and Parched ...

• Data-driven learning, theories of learning and second language acquisition: in search of intersections (Pre published) 

  O'Keeffe, Anne (2021-11)

  This chapter focuses on the need to address both theories of learning and theories of language acquisition in data-driven learning (DDL) research. While it recognises that there has been so much worthwhile research work ...

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