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Building Irish identity in America 1870-1915
(Four Courts Press, 2003)
"Just say something and we can all argue then": community and identity in the workplace talk of English language teachers
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2009)
This thesis addresses the professional talk of English language teachers. In doing so, it differs from the vast majority of the previous
research by focussing on naturally occurring professional interaction
outside the ...
The possibility of love: an inter-disciplinary analysis
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2008)
The aim of this thesis is to address the question of love’s possibility as it is explored in a selection of literature from the disciplines of philosophy, psychoanalysis and poetry. The works of nine authors, selected from ...
Pupils' and teachers' perceptions of a culminating festival within a sport education season in Irish primary schools
(Routledge Taylor and Francis, 2009)
Background: Whilst there is considerable literature on Sport Education [SE] little attention has been afforded to an investigation into the use of a specific festival as a culmination to a season.
Purpose: The purpose ...
The early history of Knowth
(Royal Irish Academy, 2008)
What's in a name? - vocatives in casual conversations and radio phone-in calls
(Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2003)
This paper looks at the use of vocatives across two corpora: the 5-million word Cambridge
and Nottingham Corpus of Discourse in English (CANCODE) and a 55,000-word
corpus of radio phone-in calls. 100 vocatives are sampled ...
Ireland in Theory: the Influence of French Theory on Irish Cultural and Societal Development
(Peter Lang, 2004)
This essay argues that the advent of French literary and cultural theory, specifically the work of Barthes, Foucault, Derrida and Lacan, has been responsible for some of the accelerated social changes that Ireland has ...
Depraved Paedos and Other Beasts: The Media Portrayal of Child Sexual Abusers in Ireland and the UK
(Oxford: Interdisciplinary Press, 2004)
Child sexual abuse is a significant social problem is Ireland and the UK.
Research shows that there are significant differences between the
reporting of sexual offences in the process and the reality of such offences
on ...
Connecting Bits and Pieces- Seamus Heaney: Electric Light
(Nua: Studies in Contemporary Irish Writing, 2002)
This review essay examines the recurrence of different themes in Seamus Heaney’s Collection Electric Light. It retraces influence of T.S. Eliot in the book and also the ongoing preoccupation with classical references. The ...
Report on Educational Provisional for children with Down syndrome in mainstream primary schools in Limerick City and County
(CDU Mary Immaculate College, 2009)
This is a extract from the Report, which includes the Contents, acknowledgements, foreword and Summary.