Browsing Department of English Language and Literature by Title
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Spoken language corpora and pedagogic applications (Pre-published version)
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The Subject of Poetry and the Subject of Theory
(Nordic Journal of Irish Studies Special Issue Contemporary Irish Poetry, 2004)This essay looks at three poems by Seamus Heaney in the light of Jacques Lacan’s theories of the subject. The type of subjectivity that is revealed in the poems is analysed, looking at Heaney’s early poems ‘Digging’ and ... -
The subjective real in William Trevor’s ‘Justina’s Priest’ (Pre-published version)
(Presses universitaires d'Angers, 2015) -
‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: the kitchen as source in the poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-print version)
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2018)This article will examine the use of food, and especially food as cooked in a kitchen, as a symbolic trope in the writing of Seamus Heaney. It will address the kitchen as a locus amoenis of comfort, warmth and positivity ... -
'Take him to the cleaners and make him do your homework': a corpus-based analysis of lexical structure used by English language learners
(2020-12-16)The present study is an empirical corpus based analysis of the use of four lexical bundles or strings by ESL students at a higher education centre in Ireland. The overall aim was to ascertain if students at both ends ... -
Tá siad ag teacht: Guinness as a signifier of Irish cultural transformation (Pre-print version)
(Syracuse University, 2009) -
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ... -
Teaching and Irish English
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011) -
TEFL in Ireland – Reflecting a profession?
(FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)In response to issues raised in Gronia deVerdon Cooney’s article on TEFL qualifications in a recent FELT Newsletter (see De Verdon Cooney, 2000, p.8), I wish to reflect on the notion of TEFL as a profession in Ireland. ... -
‘Tendency-wit': the cultural unconscious of the Celtic Tiger in the writings of Paul Howard (Pre-print version)
(Manchester University Press, 2014) -
‘there’s a lot more to ogres than people think’: Shrek as ethical fairy tale
(Institute of Technology, Tallaght; Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008) -
A ‘Third’ Reading: James Joyce and Paul Howard and the Monstrous Aporia
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) -
'Through-otherness’ the deconstruction of language
(Pluto Press, 2003) -
'Tore down a la Rimbaud': Brendan Kennelly and the French connection
(Peter Lang, 2007) -
Towards a farewell: A brief life
(Four Courts Press, 2006) -
Towards the Undecidable: A Reading of the Texts of James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and Paul Howard through the Deconstructive lens of Jacques Derrida
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)This thesis provides a comparative and contrastive perspective on the works of James Joyce, Sean O‘Casey and Paul Howard, with particular thematic focus on their portrayals of Dublin. Joyce provided a vision of Dublin in ... -
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017) -
Transitions from second level and further education to third level. Focused research report no. 6
(National Form for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education [Ireland], 2015) -
Troubling bodies: suffering, resistance and hope in Colum McCann's 'Troubles' short fiction
(Cork University Press, 2009) -
‘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 ...