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Towards the Undecidable: A Reading of the Texts of James Joyce, Sean O'Casey and Paul Howard through the Deconstructive lens of Jacques Derrida
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)
This thesis provides a comparative and contrastive perspective on the works of James Joyce, Sean O‘Casey and Paul Howard, with particular thematic focus on their portrayals of Dublin. Joyce provided a vision of Dublin in ...
Public Health & Housing in Limerick City 1850 -1935 - A Geographical Analysis
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2013)
While the industrial era was underway in Europe during the nineteenth century, Ireland was also faced with the issues of epidemic disease and slum housing. Most of the research undertaken to date has focused on the ...
Irish Female Gothic Fiction: A Study of the Fiction of Regina Maria Roche and Sydney Owenson
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2011)
The purpose of this study is to identify whether some of Sydney Owenson’s and Regina Maria Roche’s work should be considered as examples of Irish Female Gothic. Through a close study of four novels by Owenson and Roche, I ...
L’Homme Social selon Emile Zola: une Sociologie par la Littérature.
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2012)
Emile Zola (1840-1902), a nineteenth-century French writer whose name is synonymous with the school of literary naturalism, assembled a substantial corpus of fictional works in which a strong sociological perspective is ...
Being there- a qualitative arts-based narrative inquiry into the lived experiences of women in management and leadership in high education in Ireland
(2023-10-02)
The story of a male dominated leadership environment in academia is one which has been well told both nationally and internationally, as has the description of the academy as one in which the devaluing of women has become ...
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 ...
The quiddity of inclusion: an interpretative phenomenological study of early childhood teachers experiences of the LINC (Leadership for Inclusion in the early years) programme on perceptions and practice of inclusion.
(2023-10-02)
This interpretative hermeneutic phenomenological (IHP) study focuses on the lived experiences of early years educators engaged in the Leadership for Inclusion (LINC) programme, a continuing professional development (CPD) ...
"A form to accommodate the mess": a genetic (self-)translation study of Samuel Beckett’s dramatic writing
(2023-10-02)
This thesis analyses the manuscripts of Samuel Beckett’s self-translated dramatic texts in order to better understand how an author recaptures the cadences, originality and political implications of his earlier versions ...
The effectiveness of an online dialogic reading intervention for improving the oral language skills of children attending a DEIS school in Ireland
(2023-10-02)
Background: Dialogic Reading (DR) is a well-established, evidence-based, interactive reading intervention. Research indicates that children from low-socioeconomic backgrounds benefit less well from this intervention than ...