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The Irish question: an investigation into Irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults
(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
(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
(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 ...
Revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in Irish gothic literature and historical documents
(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 This thesis will provide an overview of colonial hybridity in Irish historical documents as well as ...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
(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)
(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 ...
Queer ecofeminism: from binary feminist environmental endeavours to postgender pursuits
(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 ...
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
(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 ...
‘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 ...
Constitutionally codified, the myth of the maternal in the national imaginary
(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 ...