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Using Peircean abduction to understand teacher mentoring
(Routledge, 2022-05-15)Lesson observation is frequently used in teacher induction programmes to support newly-qualified teachers in their reflection and classroom enquiry. This article uses an elaboration of Peirce’s abduction to illustrate how ... -
The Curriculum in an era of global reform: Bobbitt’s ideas on efficiency and teacher knowledge
(Routledge, 2021-02-12)Over a hundred years later, The Curriculum by John Franklin Bobbitt continues to be relevant for understanding contemporary issues in education. One issue has been the association with elements of reform such as scripted ... -
Credit allocation and programmes design: insights from metaphor
(Routledge, 2020-10-01)Volume is the dominant metaphor underlying the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS). Credits are used to ‘express the volume of learning based on the defined learning outcomes and their associated ... -
Measurement and prevalence of adult physical activity levels in Arab countries
(Elsevier, 2021-07)Physical activity (PA) has a profound effect on health. The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that physical inactivity is the fourth leading global risk for mortality, responsible for raising the risk of ... -
Transatlantic exchange, urban development and heterogeneous engineering in the west of Ireland: Belmullet's unbuilt railways, c. 1820-1920 (Pre Published)
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-09)This chapter focuses on technological and geo-spatial dreams of modernity through a study of the unexecuted proposals for developing the town of Belmullet in Co. Mayo as a transatlantic packet station. It adds to the growing ... -
The foundation documents of Pocklington School, Yorkshire, 1514-2014 (Pre published)
(Esson Print, 2014)This volume contains translations of the foundation documents for Pocklington School, Yorkshire, to mark its 500th anniversary in 2014. It also features a brief introduction to the history of education in Ireland and a ... -
All Saints, Drimoleague, and Catholic visual culture under Bishop Cornelius Lucey in Cork, 1952-9 (Pre published)
(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2015)All Saints, Drimoleague, designed by Cork architect Frank Murphy and built in 1954-6, was the first church built in a modernist architectural style in the Cork and Ross diocese since Christ the King, Turner’s Cross, in the ... -
All Saints, Drimoleague: clarifications and new discoveries (Pre published)
(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2016)Since the publication of my article on Catholic visual culture in Cork in the 1950s in last year’s journal, some new material has come to my attention that allows for both some clarifications as well as some new insights. ... -
Cork’s courthouses, the landed elite and the Rockite rebellion: architectural responses to agrarian violence, 1820-27 (Pre published)
(Liverpool University Press, 2016-06-29)Excerpt from pre-published version of Crime, Violence and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century published by Liverpool University Press: The study of architectural history has been fertile ground for revisionist approaches ... -
St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Bantry: a history (Pre published)
(Bantry Historical Society, 2017-12-11)St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church in Bantry has a long and rich history, and is widely regarded as one of the most important buildings in the town and surrounding area. It has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment, ... -
Catholic power and the Irish city: modernity, religion, and planning in Galway, 1944-49 (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-07)A major town planning dispute between church and state in Galway in the 1940s over the location for a new school provides a lens for rethinking Ireland's distinctive engagement with modernity. Using town planning and urban ... -
Building a Catholic church in 1950s Ireland: architecture, rhetoric and landscape in Dromore, Co. Cork, 1952-56 (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-02-10)This article explores the intellectual culture of Catholic architectural production in 1950s Ireland through the study of a church-building project in rural West Cork. It analyses the phenomenon of the Irish ‘church-building ... -
Planning for bicycles in the Irish city: a brief history (Pre published)
(Irish Planning Institute, 2020)In this short article I will summarise recent research on cycling in urban Ireland and elsewhere in Europe. I will briefly comment on how cycling was discussed by Irish town planners in the past, and how it was discussed ... -
Urban governance and prison building in pre-Famine Ireland, 1820-1845 (Pre published)
(Routledge, 2020)This chapter focuses on urban governance, urban agency, and civil society with reference to the construction of new prisons in Irish towns in the early nineteenth century. It investigates how civil society and central ... -
Building the Irish courthouse and prison: a political history, 1750-1850 (Pre published)
(Cork University Press, 2020)This book is the first national history of the building of some of Ireland’s most important historic public buildings. Focusing on the former assize courthouses and county gaols, it tells a political history of how they ... -
The afterlives of Galway jail, "difficult" heritage, and the Maamtrasna Murders: representations of an Irish urban space, 1882-2018 (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2020-05-03)This article explores the spatial history and ‘afterlives’ of Galway jail, where an innocent man, Myles Joyce, was executed in 1882 following his conviction for the Maamtrasna murders; in 2018 he was formally pardoned by ... -
“The radicals in these reform times”: politics, grand juries and Ireland’s unbuilt assize courthouses, 1800-45 (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2015-02-11)It is the aim, in this article, to identify the reasons why certain designs for courthouses in early-nineteenth-century Ireland remained unexecuted, and to do so by analysing surviving drawings and placing them in the ... -
Evaluation of public perceptions of authenticity of urban heritage under the conservation paradigm of historic urban landscape: a case study of the Five Avenues Historic District in Tianjin, China (Pre published)
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)Cities are the carrier of culture and collective memory of a place. Nowadays, however, there are already globally developed frameworks for the conservation of tangible urban heritage with the loss of historic meaning, which ... -
The history of Bagenalstown courthouse, Co. Carlow (Pre published)
(Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society, 2014-09-11)This short article offers an architectural history of the courthouse in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, built in the 1820s. -
“A scene of shameful disorder and dissipation”: alcohol, music, animals, and vegetables in early nineteenth-century Irish prisons (Pre published)
(History Ireland, 2019-08-26)James Palmer and Benjamin Woodward, the state’s prison inspectors in early nineteenth-century Ireland, faced a monumental challenge: all around the country in big county gaols and in small bridewells, prison governors and ...