Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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„Alle Qual vom Herzen schreiben“: Performative Ästhetik von Lust und Schmerz in Margarete Böhmes Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (1905) und Dida Ibsens Geschichte (1907) in Text und Film
(Aisthesis, 2015)Lust und Schmerz spielen in Margarete Böhmes Erfolgsroman Tagebuch einer Verlorenen sowie in seiner ‚Fortsetzung‘ Dida Ibsens Geschichte. Ein Finale zum „Tagebuch einer Verlorenen” als Lebenserfahrungen der Protagonistinnen ... -
Fritz Kortner’s Return to Germany and the Figure of the Returning Exile in Kortner’s The Mission and Josef v. Báky’s Der Ruf
(Mary Immaculate College, 2013)Fritz Kortner, the celebrated actor both on stage and screen, left increasingly anti-Semitic and right-wing Germany in 1932 and moved with his young family from Berlin to Ascona in Switzerland. In his autobiography Aller ... -
Memories of World War II in German Film after 1945
(Berghahn Books, 2015)Much has been written about the German people’s struggle to come to terms with their past or ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’, from Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich’s book on the Germans’ collective inability to mourn – Die ... -
Jacques Lacan (Pre-published version)
(Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, 2017)Jacques Marie Émile Lacan was born on April 13, 1901 and died on September 9 1981. He was a French psychoanalyst and philosopher and was a very controversial figure on the French psychoanalytic scene. He was a polymathic ... -
‘Sunk past its gleam in the meal bin’: the kitchen as source in the poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-print version)
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2018)This article will examine the use of food, and especially food as cooked in a kitchen, as a symbolic trope in the writing of Seamus Heaney. It will address the kitchen as a locus amoenis of comfort, warmth and positivity ... -
‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft (Pre-print version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ... -
Introduction: Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
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Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)
(Oxford Academic, 2013)In a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with ... -
Environmental Justice, Childhood Deprivation and Urban Regeneration.
(Royal Irish Academy, 2014)The notion of environmental justice is connected to the ways in which the goods (and conversely the 'bads') of society are distributed, both socially and spatially. The concept has been most strongly developed in the US, ... -
Regionalisation and the Geography of Poverty
(Poverty Today, 1999-04)There are been considerable debate on regionalisation since the Government's decision to divide the country into two regions to maximize EU structural aid and the subsequent EU decision to confer Objective 1 status on a ... -
A Neighbourhood-level View of Area-Based Interventions
(Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2014)The rapid increase in the numbers and ranges of state-funded area-based interventions (ABIs) in recent years has been documented in Chapter 6. These interventions and the associated fundings streams are mixed and matched ... -
All together now: A review of the Mary Immaculate College children’s choir
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)The Mary Immaculate College (MIC) Children’s Choir is a university-school-community initiative aimed at complementing and enhancing existing music education provision in primary schools. From the outset, a research and ... -
Evaluation of the Doodle Families Literacy Programme Pilot, Dublin: Childhood Development Initiative
(Childhood Development Initiative, Dublin., 2016)The Doodle Families Literacy Programme was a pilot programme that was delivered in three DEIS Band 1 primary schools in Limerick during the period of April to June 2015 for First Class children and their parents. Doodle ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering Summary Report
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The services provided by the BRFP embrace an ecological perspective (Bronfenbrenner 1979) in that they see each person, not as an isolated individual but as a member of a family and of the wider community. Consequently, ... -
Bedford Row Family Project: Holding the Suffering
(Mary Immaculate College, 2017)The BRFP staff includes one full-time Project Leader, and four additional fulltime staff comprising a Social Worker, Information Officer/Hospitality Centre Leader, Family Links Social Worker and Traveller Support Worker. ... -
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ... -
Arrival and Departure:"Fishing the Sloe-Black River" (1994)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)‘Fishing the Sloe-Black River’, the title story of McCann’s first published collection, appeared in print a year before the complete volume of stories was published by Phoenix House. The quasi-magic realist narrative was ... -
Introduction Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)At the beginning of the RTÉ Arts Lives documentary, ‘Colum McCann – Becoming a New Yorker’ (2009), Colum McCann asks, selfconsciously, why anyone would want to follow him around with a camera and make a film about his life ... -
Passion and Arrogance: Poetic Craft and Topographies of Remembrance in the Work of Michael Hartnett
(Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2005)In his seminal study, Oral Tradition as History, Jan Vansina argues that landscape is properly viewed as a layered and richly textured depository of both individual and communal memory. The landscape is implicated in the ... -
Language Change and Ideology in Irish Radio Advertising
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 2016-11)Language ideologies have been defined as ‘sets of representations through which language is imbued with cultural meaning for a certain community’. These representations can be seen as ‘ways of understanding the world that ...