Browsing by Subject "Culture"
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The creation of an Irish culture in the United States: the Gaelic movement, 1870-1915
(New Hibernia Review, 2001) -
Enacting a social ecology: radically embodied intersubjectivity
(Frontiers, 2014)Embodied approaches to cognitive science frequently describe the mind as “world-involving, ”indicating complementary and interdependent relationships between an agent and its environment. The precise nature of the environment ... -
Examining Irish Nationalism in the context of Literature, Culture and Religion. A Study of the Epistemological Structure of Nationalism
(New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002) -
In whose image? Cultivating creativity in a culture of compliance
(INTO [Irish National Teacher's Organisation], 2009) -
Institutional cultures and development education
(Centre for Global Education, 2008)In this article, Maria Campbell and Niamh Hourigan outline the findings of a comparative study which interrogated the impact of institutional cultures on two undergraduate development education programmes. The perceptions, ... -
Ireland, Modernity and the Question of Definition
(The Journal of Music in Ireland, 2003)This essay is an exploration of the notion of modernity, and its relationship with tradition. It is a response to John Waters’ article on modernity entitles ‘Reactionary Progressives’. I will respond to the article in ... -
John McGahern's 'Oldfashioned' and Anglo-Irish culture (Pre-published version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017)In John McGahern’s 1985 short story ‘Oldfashioned’, he ably demonstrates why a sensitive, bookish, Catholic young man raised in the repressive, anti-intellectual Irish Free State might be attracted to the way of life being ... -
'Kicking Bishop Brennan up the arse...': Catholicism, deconstruction and postmodernity in contemporary Irish culture (Pre-published version)
(Columba Press, 2006)This chapter will examine the changing role of the Catholic Church as structure in contemporary Ireland, seeing this altered role as part of a larger process of societal change across the western world. Indeed, what is ... -
Reinventing Ireland through a French prism (Pre-published version)
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Reinventing Ireland: culture, society and the global economy by Peadar Kirby, Luke Gibbons and Michael Cronin
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2002) -
A review of 'Crime et culture au XIXe siècle, Kalifa, D' (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2006) -
Review of 'Engaging modernity: Readings of Irish politics, culture and literature at the turn of the century'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2004) -
The role of the environment in system creation in Luhmann and Hegel: between imagination and reason
(National University of Galway and St. Angela's College, 2023-08)This paper will aim to accomplish two things to show Luhmann’s and Hegel’s support of language and communication as dependent on culture, but also their differences with respect to how culture is formed in conjunction with ... -
Toward a culture of reading: four perspectives
(EERA [Eastern Educational Research Association] / Sage, 2009)This article discusses four paths toward the development of a culture of reading, from the perspectives of a teacher educator, a librarian, an educational technologist, and a curriculum developer. Together, these individuals ... -
Tracing the cultural legacy of Irish Catholicism: from Galway to Cloyne and beyond (Pre-published version)
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Well-being: bridging the gap between the language of policy and the culture of schools
(ASCD (Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development), 2019)While there is an increasing interest in the notion of well-being—politically, societally and educationally—it remains an enigmatic, multifaceted concept that sometimes eludes definition in academic articles. This article ... -
What is PE? (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2013)Physical education is a socially constructed activity that forms one component of a wider physical culture that includes sport and health/physical activity (Kirk, 1999, Lake, 2001a: 69, Penney, 1998). The terms sport and ...