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"Prison-paradise"?: das internat als entwick-lungsraum in deutschsprachigen romanen nach 1968
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)
The PhD thesis at hand is entitled “Prison-Paradise? The boarding school as space for individuation in German-language novels after 1968”.
It is about the literary depiction of disciplinary institutions and their speci-fic ...
The gravity of oppositions: the life and art of Thomas Hardy
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
A narrative derived from the life and work of a writer can offer deeper insight than looking at his work as a separate study. To concentrate biographically on the superficial details of Hardy’s life and times without ...
Resurrection: the return of the Gothic home in contemporary Irish art (1990-2015)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015)
This thesis investigates the resurrection of the Gothic home as a powerful symbol in contemporary Irish fine art practice from 1990 to 2015, figuring large in the work of important Irish artists Aideen Barry, Alice Maher, ...
La fabrique d’un roi: les représentations de Louis XIV pendant son enfance et sa première jeunesse (1638-1661) dans la fiction littéraire en France de la Révolution à Alexandre Dumas
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This doctoral thesis proposes a study of fictional representations of the young dauphin and monarch Louis XIV in literary fiction in France from the Revolution to Alexandre Dumas. It specifically examines the portrayal of ...
Truth, being and the work of art: reflections on Heidegger's and Gadamer's interpretations of the tradition
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This thesis addresses the fundamental and interrelated questions of truth and being, which have occupied Western philosophical thought since the time of the Ancient Greeks, giving particular attention to how they relate ...
Iniúchadh ar ghnéithe den fhantaisíocht i ngearrscéalta Mhichíl Uí Chonghaile
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2015-11-06)
Is í bunaidhm an tsaothair seo ná iniúchadh a dhéanamh ar ghnéithe den fhantaisíocht i ngearrscéalta Mhichíl Uí Chonghaile, An Fear a Phléasc (1997), An Fear Nach nDéanann Gáire (2003) agus an cnuasach nua-fhoilsithe ...
Pedagogical approaches to promote meaningful participation in Primary physical education
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2016)
This research was undertaken (1) to identify pedagogies that support children’s meaningful participation in primary physical education (PE) and (2) to investigate one teacher’s experience of implementing the meaningful ...
Du rayonnement a l’eclipse, l’image mediatique et institutionnelle de casimir delavigne (1793-1843)
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2014)
This thesis, entitled « From radiance to eclipse, Casimir Delavigne’s media image », throws light on the career of this now-forgotten author. It completes and continues the research begun with the Colloque « Casimir Delavigne ...
Rural restructuring and rural in-migration patterns in Ireland
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
In recent decades, the rural economic base in Ireland, similar to that of other developed countries across the globe, has witnessed a period of significant structural change, with academic literature coining the term rural ...
Exploring the impact of lesson study on the theory-practice gap in pre-service teacher education
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
Studies of initial teacher education have repeatedly revealed a disparity between the theory taught in teacher education programmes and the subsequent practice of these teachers in the classroom (Allen, Butler-Mader & ...