Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
Now showing items 661-680 of 2173
-
Childcare regulations: regulatory enforcement in Ireland. What happens when the inspector calls? (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2014)Childcare regulations ensure children’s rights to Early Childhood Care and Education settings that protect them from harm and promote their healthy development. To ensure that settings comply, power is vested with regulatory ... -
Breach of trust - getting it right for children in early childhood care and education in Ireland
(NZRECE, 2014)In May 2013 an exposé of verbal, physical and emotional abuse of young children attending three early childhood education and care (ECEC) settings in Ireland was aired on national television in a documentary called Breach ... -
‘Don’t tell me I’m still on that feckin’ island’: migration, masculinity, British television and Irish popular culture in the work of Graham Linehan (Pre-published version)
(Sage, 2015)The article examines how, through such means as interviews and DVD commentaries, television situation comedy writer Graham Linehan has discursively elaborated a distinctly migrant masculine identity as an Irish writer in ... -
Diego Maradona and the psychodynamics of football fandom in international cinema (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014)Taking a psychoanalytic approach, the article examines and compares how three films explore the psychodynamic processes of fan investment in Argentine former football star Diego Maradona. These films illustrate how his ... -
Failure, guilt, confession, redemption? Revisiting unpublished research through a psychosocial lens (Pre-published version)
(The Association for Psychological Studies, 2017)This article offers some critical reflections on a case of failure to bring a qualitative research project to completion and publication earlier in the author’s career. Possible explanations are considered in light of ... -
‘Smart, clued-in guys’: Irish rugby players as sporting celebrities in post-Celtic Tiger Irish media (Pre-published version)
(Intellect, 2018)Ireland’s ‘Celtic Tiger’ economic boom ended with the 2008 global financial crisis. There followed a series of severe ‘austerity’ budgets and public service pay deals involving cuts in public service provision and employment ... -
Envy, guilt, symbolic reparation and images of whiteness in contemporary Hollywood sport themed films
(FA [Free Associations], 2015)Taking a primarily Kleinian psychoanalytic approach, the article first examines how the Rocky series of boxing films (1976-2006) illustrates the displacement of a problematic of downward economic mobility onto race in ... -
Mitigating collinearity in linear regression models using ridge, surrogate and raised estimators
(Cogent OA, 2016)Collinearity in the design matrix is a frequent problem in linear regression models, for example, with economic or medical data. Previous standard procedures to mitigate the effects of collinearity included ridge regression ... -
A review of 'Crime et culture au XIXe siècle, Kalifa, D' (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2006) -
A review of 'The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808–1892). Bringing World Literature to France, by Wendy S. Mercer' (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2009) -
Envy, jealousy, guilt and the construction of whiteness in contemporary Hollywood sport films
(2018-11-29)Taking a psychoanalytic approach the paper argues that envy of the supposedly natural ability of African American athletes and jealous resentment of their social and cultural status underpin such Hollywood sport themed ... -
Response surface designs using the generalized variance inflation factors
(Cogent OA, 2015)We study response surface designs using the generalized variance inflation factors for subsets as an extension of the variance inflation factors. -
A review of 'Népomucène Louis Lemercier, Christophe Colomb.' By Vincenzo de Santis (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2016) -
A review of 'French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval' by C. W. Thompson (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2013) -
“The door” stands open: liminal spaces in the later Heaney (Pre-print version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016)