English Language and Literature (Peer-reviewed publications): Recent submissions
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Vocabulary instruction (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012) -
Competencies explored and exposed: Grammar, lexis, communication and the notion of levels
(Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2012) -
Undergraduate academic writing: an analysis of errors and weaknesses in syntax, lexis, style and structure
(Dublin: Reading Association of Ireland, 2000) -
Would as a hedging device in an Irish context: An intra-varietal comparison of institutionalised spoken interaction
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Teaching and Irish English
(Cambridge University Press: Cambridge Journals, 2011) -
Like the wise virgins and all that jazz’ – using a corpus to examine vague language and shared knowledge
(Language and Computers, 2004)This paper will use a corpus to explore vague categorisation (e.g. prostitutes, sailors and the like) in a specific context where the participants are strangers, but where they share the same socio-cultural reference points ... -
Media and discourse analysis
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Messianism or Messianicity?: Remembering Revolution and the Shaping of Irish Nationalism
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2011) -
The Question of Irish Identity in the Writings of W. B. Yeats and James Joyce
(New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1998) -
Examining Irish Nationalism in the context of Literature, Culture and Religion. A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism
(New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) -
Seamus Heaney: Creating Irelands of the Mind Studies on Contemporary Ireland Series
(Liffey Press, 2007) -
'Through-otherness’ the deconstruction of language
(Pluto Press, 2003) -
A ‘Third’ Reading: James Joyce and Paul Howard and the Monstrous Aporia
(Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2010) -
Intellectual Imposters?- We Should be so Lucky!:Towards an Irish Public Sphere
(Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009)Looking back on the challenge posed to critical theory by the publication in 1999 of Sokal and Bricmont’s book, Intellectual Impostures, this essay argues that the latter was at least evidence of the ongoing vitality of ... -
North: The Politics of Plurality
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 1999)This essay will offer a theoretical reading both of North, and its critics; it will also analyse the criticisms of North in terms of its speaking with the voice of the tribe. I hope to demonstrate that, in fact, what is ... -
Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ... -
'The Boat has Moved': The Catholic Church, Conflations and the Need for Critique
(Columba Press, 2011)