FACULTY OF ARTS: Recent submissions
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Guests of a nation; geists of a nation
(Center for Irish Studies (University of St. Thomas), 2007) -
Visioning Ireland: Pearse, prosopopoeia and the remembering of O'Donovan Rossa and Tone
(Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies, 2014) -
‘there’s a lot more to ogres than people think’: Shrek as ethical fairy tale
(Institute of Technology, Tallaght; Dublin Institute of Technology, 2008) -
“An art that knows its mind”: prayer, poetry and post-Catholic identity in Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings”
(Universitaires du Septentrion, 2014)Seamus Heaney’s “Squarings” sequence from his 1991 collection Seeing Things speaks of the “virtue of an art that knows its mind”. This sequence attempts to know the mind in both its immanent and transcendent aspects, through ... -
Reflections on (of) nationalism
(Kairos, 1998)This project attempts to define the epistemological structure of nationalism and to suggest a theoretical model through which this can be done. I would argue that this theorization will apply to nationalism per se; however, ... -
Secularization in Ireland: Analyzing the relationship between religiosity and demographic variables in Ireland from the European Social Survey 2002-2012 (Pre-published version)
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2014)This research will explore both of these theories, secularization and existential (in)security, within Ireland against the backdrop of the recent economic crisis of 2008 using the first five rounds of the European Social Survey. -
Homilies for July (C) (Pre-published version)
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Homilies for April (Pre-published version)
(The Furrow, 1993) -
Review of Rough Magic's 2013 production of R.B. Sheridan's "The Critic"
(University of Toronto Press, 2015) -
Review of Druid Theatre Company's 2016-17 production of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
(Edinburgh University Press, 2017) -
George Bernard Shaw: Irish to the core
(The Irish Times, 2017) -
Fired from the canon: Waking the feminists, the conference
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Irish-American identity in Eugene O'Neill's early plays
(Penn State University Press, 2018)This article examines Irish-American identity in Eugene O’Neill’s early work, including his “lost” plays. It demonstrates that characters such as Al Devlin in The Movie Man, Joe and Nellie Murray in Abortion, Eileen Carmody ... -
Landlord–tenant (non)relations in the work of Bernard Shaw
(Penn State University Press, 2016)As a child, Shaw was horrified by the appalling poverty of the Dublin slums, and, while working in a Dublin estate office as a teenager, he actually had to collect slum rents. On a more personal level, both sides of Shaw’s ... -
Review of "Bernard Shaw, W.T. Stead, and the new journalism: Whitechapel, Parnell, Titanic, and the Great War" by Nelson O'Ceallaigh Ritschel
(Penn State University Press, 2017) -
Review of "Where Motley is Worn; Transnational Irish Literatures" Amanda Tucker and Moira E. Casey eds.
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Small corpora and pragmatics (Pre-published version)
(Springer, 2013)Corpus linguistics is more often than not associated with large-scale collections of spoken or written data, representing genres, varieties or contexts of use. Many of these have been successfully exploited for pragmatics ... -
The exchange in family discourse (Pre-print version)
(Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (IRAAL), 2002)The intimate genre of family discourse has traditionally posed problems for linguists because of the difficulty in collecting the data and the intimate nature of the genre. For obvious reasons, people view family life as ... -
TEFL in Ireland – Reflecting a profession?
(FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)In response to issues raised in Gronia deVerdon Cooney’s article on TEFL qualifications in a recent FELT Newsletter (see De Verdon Cooney, 2000, p.8), I wish to reflect on the notion of TEFL as a profession in Ireland. ... -
Five ideas for using authentic television clips (Pre-published version)
(FELT [Forum for English Language Teachers (Ireland)], 2001)Television offers many opportunities for materials development. Below are five prototype lessons based around different genres of television material: soap opera; film; comedy; advertising and news broadcast. Before you ...