Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Bantry Library, Co. Cork, 1962-74 (Pre published)
(History Ireland, 2012-08-22)Set amidst the small market town of Bantry, near the site of a former mill and surrounded by one of the spate rivers which drain from the Knocknaveagh range to the south, is one of Ireland’s most unusual examples of Modernist ... -
The Anglo-Indian architect Walter Sykes George (1881-1962): a modernist follower of Lutyens (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2012)Walter Sykes George (1881–1962) (Fig. 1) was a remarkable Anglo-Indian architect. Obituaries in Indian and British journals cast him as a ‘Renaissance’ man: an artist, Byzantine archaeologist, architect, town planner, ... -
The stability space of the derived category of holomorphic triples and further investigations
(2021-04-14)In this thesis we give a complete description of the Bridgeland stability space for the bounded derived category of holomorphic triples over a smooth projective curve of genus one as a connected, four dimensional complex ... -
British solutions to Irish problems: representations of Ireland in the British architectural press, 1837-53’ (Pre published)
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014-05-10)Existing scholarship on representations of Ireland in the British press has overlooked a subset of nineteenth–century publications: architectural periodicals. By analysing their coverage of Irish issues over a fifteen year ... -
Irish urban history: an agenda (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)Modern Irish history is urban history. It is a story of the transferral of a populace from rural settlements to small towns and cities; of the discipline and regulation of society through new urban spaces; of the creation ... -
Rethinking the origins of the British Prisons Act of 1835: Ireland and the development of central-government prison inspection, 1820-35 (Pre published)
(Cambridge University Press, 2016-09)While the introduction of central-government inspectors for prisons in a British act of 1835 has been seen as a key Whig achievement of the 1830s, the Irish precedent enacted by Charles Grant, a liberal Tory chief secretary, ... -
‘We think considerable improvement should be made.’ Irish insanity and the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum, 1772-1900
(2021-04-08)The focus of this thesis is the Limerick District Lunatic Asylum (LDLA hereafter), its interconnected institutions and the people who used them. Established in 1827, LDLA was Ireland’s first large-scale provincial district ... -
Stories from school! A narrative inquiry exploring primary teachers' experiences of school-based teacher education
(2021-04-07)‘Stories from School!’ is a personal, philosophical, and educational endeavour which applies narrative (Clandinin and Connelly,1990,1994,1995,1996, 2000; Clandinin 2006, 2013, 2020, Speedy, 2001, 2008; Kim 2016; Craig 2011, ... -
A socio-rhetorical interpretation of Paul’s theology of Christian suffering of 1 Corinthians
(2021-04-07)This dissertation is a socio-rhetorical investigation of Paul’s theology of Christian suffering in 1 Corinthians. Paul’s undisputed Letters offer seven lists of his suffering (see 1 Cor 4:9-13; 2 Cor 4:8-9; 6:4-5, 8-10; ... -
"Do you see this woman" (Luke 7:44). The multi-faceted witness of women in Luke's gospel
(2021-04-07)The open question that is posed in this research, seeks to ascertain what the women exemplify as they interact with Jesus in the Lukan Gospel. How does Jesus engage them and what aspects of discipleship and response do ... -
Ideology vs. reality – an exploration of the relationship between governance and management, and quality early childhood care and education provision
(2021-04-07)This research study explores the relationship between governance and management and, quality provision within the early childhood care and education system. This unique study comes at a time of unprecedented change within ... -
The creativity of life: Husserl, Henry and beyond
(2021-04-06)This work investigates the nature of transcendental subjectivity, and whether and how the subject can endeavour to know and attest to its absolute foundation with its essential structures. Towards this end, I take up the ... -
Teacher talk at three stages of English language teacher career development: a corpus-aided study
(2021-03-30)Classroom discourse (CD) and teacher talk (TT) have received much attention over the years across a range of research perspectives, from qualitative case studies of individual teacher narratives to large-scale quantitative ... -
Re:membrance of Absence Disrupting perceptions of Jewish and minority identity in Ireland through theatre
(2021-03-30)This research examines social, historical and theoretical reasons that have contributed to the noticeable omission of minority voices, specifically Jewish voices, from Irish theatre narratives to date. The creation of the ... -
Social support, social participation, and cardiovascular reactivity to stress in the midlife in the United States (MIDUS) study (Pre-published)
(Elsevier, 2020-06-26)This study tested two hypotheses of associations between dimensions of social connectedness and cardiovascular reactivity to acute stress: (1) high social support predicts diminished cardiovascular responses to stress ... -
Constructing isostatic frameworks for the l1 and l infinity plane (Pre-published)
(Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2020-06-12)We use a new coloured multi-graph constructive method to prove that if the edge-set of a graph G = (V,E) has a partition into two spanning trees T1 and T2 then there is a map p : V → R2, p(v) = (p(v)1,p(v)2), such that ... -
Graph rigidity for unitarily invariant matrix norms (Pre-published)
(Elsevier, 2020-11-15)A rigidity theory is developed for bar-joint frameworks in linear matrix spaces endowed with a unitarily invariant matrix norm. Analogues of Maxwell's counting criteria are obtained and minimally rigid matrix frameworks ... -
Symbol functions for symmetric frameworks (Pre-published)
(Elsevier, 2021-05-15)We prove a variant of the well-known result that intertwiners for the bilateral shift on ℓ2(Z) are unitarily equivalent to multiplication operators on L2(T). This enables us to unify and extend fundamental aspects of ... -
The transnational roots of key figures from the early years of the Gate Theatre, Dublin (Pre-published)
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020-11-04)When considering the avant-garde nature of the early Gate Theatre, critics rightly focus on the queer sexuality and liberal politics of many of the people associated with the theatre at the time. However, it is also important ... -
T-REX- the teachers’ research exchange. Overcoming the research-practice gap in education (Pre-published)
(Springer, 2020-04-19)This paper introduces the Teachers Research Exchange (T-REX), an online community of practice that is currently being deployed on a pilot basis nationwide in Ireland as a response to the research-practice gap . The system ...