Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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A literary and cultural analysis of the mistreatment of women portrayed in the works of female Irish writers and critical social events in Ireland 1984-2022
(2023-10-25)This thesis examines the treatment of women in Irish society through a cultural and literary approach. The analysis includes a variety of literature dating from 1936 to 2015. The authors discussed are all female: Teresa ... -
Constitutionally codified, the myth of the maternal in the national imaginary
(2023-10-25)This thesis will address Article 41.2 of the Constitution to examine how it affected Irish women for the succeeding eighty years. It will draw from De Valera’s ideology of nation building in 1937, which situated women in ... -
Does the Weaving Well-being programme affect the academic achievement and engagement of Irish primary school students?
(2023-10-25)Background: In 2012, 1 in 3 Irish young people were found to experience mental ill-health (Dooley & Fitzgerald, 2012). In light of such data, the Department of Education (DES) has recommended use of universal evidence based ... -
A complicated birth: the Northern Ireland Ministry of Education, 1921-1925
(2023-10-25)The primary purpose of this thesis is to establish the extent to which the development of the nascent Ministry of Education (M.O.E.) in Northern Ireland (N.I.) was defined by its relationship with the Roman Catholic (R.C.) ... -
The experience of Irish-medium and English-medium primary schools for children with down syndrome and their parents
(2023-10-24)Background Recent studies indicate that learners with Down syndrome can become competent bilinguals and biliterates. However, less is known about whether immersion education is a suitable and beneficial education setting ... -
Caomhnú, cruthaitheacht agus claochlú teanga: cás-staidéar ar leagan cainte (1995-2000)
(2023-10-24)Is é príomhchuspóir an taighde seo scrúdú a dhéanamh ar leaganacha agus ar fhocail a bhíodh faoi chaibidil ag rannpháirtithe phainéal Leagan Cainte, d’fhonn is gur féidir cíoradh a dhéanamh ar fheiniméin teanga a bhaineann ... -
Examining educational psychologists' perspectives of their role in the Republic of Ireland: an exploratory study using activity theory
(2023-10-24)Background: With the 2015 change from masters to doctoral level for educational psychology training in Ireland and the 2016 change in Health Service Executive (HSE) eligibility criteria for the recruitment of psychologists ... -
Exploring the effects of a classroom-based climate change intervention on secondary students in Ireland
(2023-10-24)Objective: This research considers the degree to which participation in an 8–10-hour interactive climate change education (CCE) module affects secondary school students’ knowledge, attitude, behaviour, and values about ... -
Revolution, rebellion and vampires: colonial hybridity in Irish gothic literature and historical documents
(2023-10-24)Colonial hybridity remains one of the most widely deployed and disputed literary theories within Postcolonial Studies. This thesis will provide an overview of colonial hybridity in Irish historical documents as well as ... -
Igniting a spark?: an investigation into how an Irish arts partnership can support primary teachers in their teaching of arts education
(2023-10-24)In recent years, arts partnerships have increased in popularity as a means of delivering arts education in schools. Creating opportunities for both teachers and artists alike, arts partnerships can enhance a shared sense ... -
Evidence-based practice to develop social communication competency: listening to the voices of teachers of autistic children
(2023-10-24)In education research, there is a firm belief that reflecting on inclusive pedagogy is imperative for teachers, as effective inclusion means considering the child’s needs on all levels and adopting appropriate practices ... -
Good grief: changing attitudes to childhood grief in children's literature
(2023-10-24)In the modern context, it is understood that childhood grief is a normal response to loss and that bereaved children require support and guidance to navigate their grief. However, less than a century ago it was believed ... -
Foreign language anxiety in the Irish third-level context and the potential of performative pedagogy for learners' of French
(2023-10-23)Who among us has never been lost in translation at one point or another when learning a language? Given its complex nature, the study of second language (L2) acquisition has become a largely interdisciplinary enterprise ... -
The perceptions of Irish school personnel of critical incident training and critical incident response from school psychological services and other services: an appreciative inquiry
(2023-10-23)Background: The National Educational Psychological Service (NEPS) defines a Critical Incident (CI) as: “any incident or sequence of events which overwhelms the normal coping mechanisms of the school” (Department of Educational ... -
The best of both worlds: exploring the socialisation of physical education specialism graduates as generalist teachers with expertise in PE
(2023-10-23)This research investigated the self-efficacy, beliefs, and practices of generalist primary school teachers who undertook the Bachelor of Education with a specialism in PE between 2016 and 2019. Data were collected through ... -
Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) in The Irish Quarterly Review, Duffy’s hibernian magazine, Duffy’s hibernian sixpenny magazine, the month and the Irish monthly: a study of nineteenth-century Irish women writers and their literary and publishing networks (1857-1893)
(2023-10-23)Anchored in the nineteenth-century periodical archive, this recovery project takes Sarah Atkinson (1823-1893) as a centripetal force. An influential Irish Catholic middle-class writer and philanthropist, Atkinson lists ... -
"Nothing about me without me": exploring how educational psychologists in Irish disability, educational and primary care services elicit and represent the voices of school aged children and young people with special educational needs
(2023-10-23)Background: National and international policy stipulate the importance of listening to the voices of children and young people (CYP) with special educational needs (SEN). During consultation, educational psychologists ... -
Exploring the influence of early screen use in the home on psychological development from an ecological perspective
(2023-10-23)The present research focuses on the influence that early screen use in the home has on young children’s psychological development. While a large body of research has been conducted on the influence that screens have on ... -
The Irish question: an investigation into Irish language self-efficacy beliefs in adults
(2023-10-23)The vast majority of adults that have received their education in Ireland undertake compulsory Irish for around 13 years. However, over 60% of adults claim to have no Irish speaking ability (CSO, 2018). This study seeks ... -
‘Jaysus, keep talking like that and you’ll fit right in’- an investigation of oral Irish English in contemporary Irish fiction
(2023-10-02)This project is an interdisciplinary and comparative investigation of the reproduction of linguistic features of Irish English (IrE) present in contemporary IrE fiction. To do this, a corpus of over 1 million words comprising ...