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The genesis of the Hunter Figure: A study of the dialectic between the biographical and the aesthetic in the early writings of Hunter S. Thompson
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2018)
Hunter S. Thompson revolutionised American journalism in the 1970’s with the publication of ‘The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved’, in Scanlan’s Monthly, and ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, in Rolling Stone magazine. ...
Representation and Performance: Dancer (2003)
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)
Introducing the work of John Banville, Derek Hand invokes the protracted genealogy of the novel in locating the formal and thematic loci of Banville’s fictions. Hand alludes to Harold Bloom’s recent thoughts on the ...
Internationalizing 9/11: Hope and Redemption in Nadeem Aslam’s "The Wasted Vigil" (2008) and Colum McCann’s "Let the Great World Spin" (2009)
(Oxford Academic, 2013)
In a recent literary critical survey, Catherine Morley notes a suite of trends in 9/11 fiction: ‘While many of the initial reactions to the events of 11th September were notable for their uniquely subjective emphasis, with ...
‘Belief shifts’: Ireland’s referendum and the journey from gemeinschaft to gesellschaft (Pre-print version)
(Manchester University Press, 2017-03)
I would begin this chapter with two pieces of narrative: one from fantasy literature and one from recent political discourse. The fantasy writer Terry Pratchett wrote a book in his Discworld series about religion, gods and ...
“A Crooked Mark” - An Examination of the Effectiveness of Using Authentic Materials in Teaching Apostrophe Use in an ELT Context.
(2018-02-07)
This thesis focuses on two types of teaching intervention, prescriptive and descriptive, to
determine which type may be more beneficial to English language learners in learning correct
apostrophe application. The role ...
Introduction Colum McCann and the Aesthetics of Redemption
(Irish Academic Press, 2011)
At the beginning of the RTÉ Arts Lives documentary, ‘Colum McCann – Becoming a New Yorker’ (2009), Colum McCann asks, selfconsciously, why anyone would want to follow him around with a camera and make a film about his life ...
Exploring Synchronous Online Communication and its Effect on Non-Native Speakers of English
(2018-02-07)
It is estimated that there are 1.5 billion people worldwide who speak English, of whom only 375 million are native speakers (Statista 2016). Jenks (2012) notes that the use of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) is growing ...
Review of 'Brendan Kennelly: Behind the smile'
(Irish Province of the Society of Jesus, 2015)
Speaking of Silence: Comments from an Irish Studies Perspective.
(Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2012)
The Sounds of Silence: Samuel Becketts's Haunted Modernism.
(Centre for Irish Studies, Aarhus(CISA), Dalarna University Centre for Irish Studies(DUCIS), Nordic Irish Studies Network(NISN)., 2012)