Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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”The East” as a Transit Space in the New Europe? Transnational Train Journeys in Prose Poems by Kurt Drawert, Lutz Seiler and Ilma Rakusa. In: German Life and Letters 68/2 (2015), 45-67.
(2015)The past three decades, following the collapse of the Iron Curtain, have seen the development of a ‘European literature’ characterised by the emergence of transnational subjects and spaces. This also applies to a Europe ... -
‘Rivers of ink’: searching for authentic representations of the Holocaust – words, pictures and the stories they tell
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)The Holocaust haunts the European mind, and its reverberations continue to this day. However, for those of us who were not there, all our knowledge, understanding and experience of this event is expressed in representations ... -
The genesis of the Hunter Figure: A study of the dialectic between the biographical and the aesthetic in the early writings of Hunter S. Thompson
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)Hunter S. Thompson revolutionised American journalism in the 1970’s with the publication of ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’, in Scanlan’s Monthly, and ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, in Rolling Stone magazine. ... -
The evolution of Limerick City’s fife and drum band tradition 1840 to 1935
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the evolution and activity of fife and drum bands in Limerick city between 1840 and 1935. The topic was chosen because of the author’s involvement in St Mary’s Fife and Drum Band since 1976 and because ... -
Exploring teacher-artist partnership as a model of CPD for supporting and enhancing arts education in Ireland: a research repor
(Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, 2016-12)We are at a crossroads in Ireland with regard to teacher-artist partnerships. This joint governmental approach to these partnerships represents a crucial move towards a cohesive arts education strategy for schools. This ... -
Reviewing Literature on Gender Using Found Poetry and Dramatic Script
(The Qualitative Report, 2016-12-16)In this article, derived from the literature review chapter of her doctoral dissertation, the author presents a variation on what Prendergast (2006) calls found poetry as literature review. Her writing experiment is intended ... -
“The Habits of History”: A Research-Based Play Script
(The Qualitative Report, 2018-02-16)In this article, derived from her doctoral dissertation, the author (a teacher educator in drama in Ireland) presents her students’ initial responses to her performance of a one-woman play, “Goldilocks’s Testimony.” The ... -
Public Housing in Limerick City: A Profile of Tenants and Estates
(Limerick City Council, 2005)Income poverty is both pervasive and profound among LCC tenant households. Certain groups and areas show a particularly high risk of poverty. Spatial concentration of the poor is exacerbated by estate-specific problems. ... -
• Educational Disadvantage in Limerick: The Socio-Economic and Spatial Context
(Mary Immaculate College, 2007-06-19)Relationship between educational and social disadvantage particularly strong in Limerick urban area. As well as economic restructuring, this may be due to the spatial concentration of social disadvantage, and the depth of ... -
Keeping track Mapping and tracking vulnerable young people
(The Policy Press, 2001-04)The notion of social exclusion, and the need for its existence and effects to be addressed and combated by government social policy, has gained great prominence in recent years, as illustrated by the establishment and work ... -
Geographical mobility Family impacts
(The Policy Press, 2003-05)This study examines the family impacts of geographical mobility, with particular emphasis on employer-initiated relocation. It is hoped that the results from this research will add to the understanding of the impacts on ... -
„Alle Qual vom Herzen schreiben“: Performative Ästhetik von Lust und Schmerz in Margarete Böhmes Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1905) und Dida Ibsens Geschichte (1907) in Text und Film
(Aisthesis, 2015)Lust und Schmerz spielen in Margarete Böhmes Erfolgsroman Tagebuch einer Verlorenen sowie in seiner ‚Fortsetzung‘ Dida Ibsens Geschichte. Ein Finale zum „Tagebuch einer Verlorenen” als Lebenserfahrungen der Protagonistinnen ... -
Nie wieder Friede!
(Wallstein Verlag, 2015)Ernst Toller arbeitete an der deutschen Fassung von Nie wieder Friede! zwischen 1933 und 1936. Ein Typoskript das als Grundlage für die englische Übersetzung diente, ist in der Tollersammlung der Yale-University-Library ... -
Die blinde Göttin - Nachwort
(Wallstein Verlag, 2015)Ernst Toller schrieb 1931/32 das Hörspiel Indizien, das als Vorläufer des Justizdramas Die blinde Göttin gelten muss. Ein erstes Bühnenmanuskript für das Theaterstück Die blinde Göttin erschien 1932 bei Kiepenheuer in ... -
Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf
(Mary Immaculate College, 2013)Fritz Kortner, the celebrated actor both on stage and screen, left increasingly anti-Semitic and right-wing Germany in 1932 and moved with his young family from Berlin to Ascona in Switzerland. In his autobiography Aller ... -
Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945
(Berghahn Books, 2015)Much has been written about the German people’s struggle to come to terms with their past or ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’, from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s book on the Germans’ collective inability to mourn – Die ... -
Jacques Lacan
(Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2017)Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901 and died on September 9 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene. He was a polymathic ... -
‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: The Kitchen as Source in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney
(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 ... -
‘Belief Shifts’: Ireland’s Referendum and the Journey from Gemeinschaft to Gesellschaft
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ... -
From Galway to Cloyne, and Beyond: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Irish Catholicism
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)Bind us together, Lord, Bind us together, With cords that cannot be broken, Bind us together, Lord, Bind us together Bind us together in Love, There is only one God, There is only one King, There is only one Body, That is ...
