Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Lakes in Ireland: mirrors of change
(Independently published, 2024)Water is the defining element of Ireland’s natural heritage. The mild, wet climate shapes the landscape, endowing the island with an extraordinary number of lakes. This book showcases these lakes, emphasising the importance ... -
Creating composites as evidence based research into an approach to counselling therapy (the experience of the propeller model approach)
(Irish College of Humanities and Applied Sciences, 2022-05-12)As a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Sofia University in Bulgaria, who is a practicing Counselling Therapist with the British Association of Counsellors and Psychotherapists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, it ... -
Musical setting creation for a Yeats poem: an autoethnographic Irish-Canadian experience
(2024-10-25)The project aims to explore 'what it is like' to create a musical setting for a poem written by WB Yeats as a Canadian born musician of paternal Irish heritage. Exploring the significance of this creative process is to ... -
Limerick City's coat of arms: a visual review
(Mary Immaculate College, 2024-09-20)The presentation hopes to provide an approach to understanding the Limerick City Coat of Arms and its evolution. It does not provide an exhaustive list of the Coat of Arms, hoping that the presentation will provoke interest ... -
Therapist awareness of client reduction of self: a daseinanalytic approach
(2022-04-24)Program: Heidegger and the Neuroscience -
An investigation of the concept of Divine Freedom within the philosophical Theology of St Thomas Aquinas
(2024-10-18)This dissertation will investigate the concept of Divine Freedom within the philosophical Theology of St Thomas Aquinas by analysing in detail the arguments that St Thomas Aquinas makes in order to establish that God enjoys ... -
The new theory of vision and its role in Berkeley’s philosophical system
(2024-10-18)This thesis examines George Berkeley’s New Theory of Vision and considers its role within his overall philosophical system. While the core claims of the New Theory and their relation to the later works has engaged much ... -
A study of the life and activities of Sir Stephen Edward De Vere of Curragh Chase, 1812-1904
(2024-10-17)The focus of this thesis is on the life of Sir Stephen Edward De Vere. In some ways, he might be viewed as a peripheral figure in nineteenth-century Irish history. Although he did serve as a Member of Parliament for county ... -
“It’s wrong but I can’t explain why!” Moral dumbfounding and moral judgement: how failure to justify moral judgements can inform our understanding of how they are made
(2024-10-17)Moral dumbfounding occurs when people fail to justify a strongly held moral judgement with supporting reasons. The discovery of moral dumbfounding coincided with a growth in intuitionist and dual-process theories of moral ... -
Markovianity and the Thompson Group F (Pre-published version)
(2022-10-27)We show that representations of the Thompson group F in the automorphisms of a noncommutative probability space yield a large class of bilateral stationary noncommutative Markov processes. As a partial converse, bilateral ... -
Phenomenological bridge building: between empathy and archetypes in fiction and reality (Pre-published version)
(ILCAM, 2016)This paper aims to uncover some of the important contributions the phenomenological method can offer to philosophical issues in literary studies. It leads us to the idea that the archetypes found in fiction are intuited ... -
Marx and sprectres: a hauntological exploration of the poetry of Seamus Heaney through the lens of Jacques Derrida's Specters of Marx
(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 ... -
Pseudospectrum of an element of a Banach algebra (Pre-published version)
(Element Publishing House, 2017-03)The ε -pseudospectrum Λε (a) of an element a of an arbitrary Banach algebra A is studied. Its relationships with the spectrum and numerical range of a are given. Characterizations of scalar, Hermitian and Hermitian idempotent ... -
Pseudospectra of elements of reduced Banach algebras (Pre-published version)
(Springer, 2017)Let A be a Banach algebra with identity 1 and p ∈ A be a non-trivial idempotent. Then q = 1−p is also an idempotent. The subalgebras pAp and qAq are Banach algebras, called reduced Banach algebras, with identities p and q ... -
Markovianity and the Thompson monoid F+ (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2023-03-13)We introduce a new distributional invariance principle, called `partial spreadability', which emerges from the representation theory of the Thompson monoid F+ in noncommutative probability spaces. We show that a partially ... -
Pseudospectra of elements of reduced Banach algebras II (Pre-published version)
(Faculty of Sciences and Mathematics, University of Nis, Serbia, 2018-06)Let A be a Banach algebra with identity 1 and p ∈ A be a non-trivial idempotent. Then q = 1 − p is also an idempotent. The subalgebras pAp and qAq are Banach algebras, called reduced Banach algebras, with identities p and ... -
Wittgenstein looking at Wittgenstein: a critical analysis of the self reflexive logical evolution of Wittgenstein's work
(2024-09-25)This thesis traces the evolution of Wittgenstein‟s work through the set theoretic concept of the infinite and the generated problems of Russell‟s paradox and self reference, which I argue develops through three distinct ... -
The content of the Christian Religious Studies syllabus in Nigerian secondary schools: a historical perspective on indigenous pastoral theology
(2024-09-24)Christian Religious Studies in Nigeria is almost entirely based on the study of the Bible. This is as a result of the historical foundation of formal education in Africa, and the contribution of missionaries. Though ... -
Organised labour in Limerick City, 1810-1899
(2024-09-11)This monograph identifies and describes the nineteenth century workers of Limerick who established and maintained societies, representing both individual occupational groups and multi-occupational alliances. The study ... -
Anything but the ideal speaker listener in anything but a homogenous speech community: a study of communication through the medium of lingua franca English
(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 ...