Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Role of community is key to understanding Irish water protest confrontations (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2015)Will confrontational campaigners provoke Government into increasingly repressive responses to their actions? -
Aspiration and actuality: childhood inequality and the legacy of 1916
(Barnardos, 2015)As we enter 2016, the controversies about how best to commemorate the legacy of the Rising have already begun. Already, various groups have claimed to be the true inheritors of the spirit of Proclamation. However, a closer ... -
The Leaving Certificate 'leaves' too many people behind
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The changing face of Irish gangsters (Pre-published version)
(gardareview.ie, 2014)Niamh Hourigan examines the true nature of gang crime in Ireland today and asks, has anything really changed post-austerity? -
Cutbacks are as pernicious as hard drugs
(Irish Examiner, 2014) -
How state policy helped create a fertile gangland breeding ground
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Can TG4 recapture some good feeling about Irish? (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2012)TG4 aims to give viewers another eye on Ireland and its language – has it succeeded, or does it perpetuate hang-ups about Irish? -
Money-lending, intimidation and the consequences of financial exclusion (Pre-published version)
(thejournal.ie, 2011)These arrests won’t tackle the root causes of crime in Limerick. On Limerick’s estates, crime is being spurred by pressing social problems – and they’re not going away. -
Limerick’s estates of fear
(Irish Examiner, 2011)Breaking the bonds of poverty, drugs and crime. Community violence in Limerick must be understood in order to be solved. -
Understanding anti-social behaviour
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Student teachers’ evolving conceptions of self, learning and teaching: a longitudinal study (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2019)Access to elementary school teaching in Ireland is provided through concurrent and consecutive programmes of teacher education which are accredited by the professional standards body for the teaching profession, The Teaching ... -
Symmetric powers of trace forms on symbol algebras
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“The next level”: Investigating teaching and learning within an Irish traditional music online community (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2013)Online music communities offer a new context and culture for musical participation globally. This article, employing a socio-cultural theoretical lens, examines how the Online Academy of Irish Music (OAIM) functions as a ... -
Mediating diversity: identity, language, and protest in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales
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Reversed memory, collective action and the Irish economic crisis 2010-2013
(Anthropology Ireland, 2014)This paper examines how collective memory of colonialism informed the response of Irish citizens to the Irish economic crisis of 2010-2013. This crisis resulted in the Troika bailout of the Irish banks, a related programme ... -
Juvenile justice, crime and early intervention: key challenges from the Limerick context (Pre-published version)
(The Probation Service [Ireland], 2012)This paper outlines the findings of a three-year study on criminal gang participation, anti-social behaviour and systems of intimidation within disadvantaged communities in Limerick city. The research is considered in light ... -
Audience identification and Raidió na Gaeltachta
(DIT [Dublin Institute of Technology], 1996)This paper was researched as part of a broader project on the campaigns for Raidió na Gaeltachta and Teillfis na Gaeilge. In the course of this work, I conducted over thirty Interviews with members of each campaign. RTE: ... -
Regulatory disclosure and the Irish financial services ombudsman (Pre-published version)
(Elsevier, 2018)This study investigates the effectiveness regulatory disclosure, specifically the power to name and shame persistently offending financial service providers (FSPs) in its annual reports awarded to the Irish Financial ...