Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Exploratory Analysis of Photographic Imagery as used In Irish Printed Daily Newspapers
(2009)The purpose of this study is to examine visual representation of our society in the news sections of Irish printed daily national newspapers and to analyse the power distribution that traverses these images for evidence ... -
From the 'Other' Island to the One with 'No West Side':
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The New Poor
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In Vidocq's footsteps
(Journal of European Studies, 2003) -
"Identities in the writer complexus": Joyce, Europe and Irish identities (Pre-published version)
(Rodopi Press, 2003)This chapter examines forms of negative identity in terms of two intersecting verbal axes: Joyce‟s own term, gnomon and Jacques Derrida‟s term hauntology. Both terms gesture towards forms of negative identity which are the ... -
How Media Content Assists and Neglects Child Safety
(Canada's Children, 2005) -
Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the UK
(Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2004)Child sexual abuse is a significant social problem is Ireland and the UK. Research shows that there are significant differences between the reporting of sexual offences in the process and the reality of such offences on ... -
The Force of Law in Seamus Heaney's Greek Translations
(Careysfort Press, 2008)This essay examines the use of law in Heaney’s Greek translations: The Burial at Thebes, and The Cure at Troy. For Derrida,, the founding moment of law, in a society or culture, is never a moment ‘inscribed’ in the history ...