Browsing by Subject "Arts, Social Sciences & Celtic Studies"
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The 3Cs model: Designing an online language community for overseas Irish learners through connection, communication and collaboration
(NUI Galway, 2021-09)The Irish language is currently classified as “definitely endangered” (Moseley, 2010) and may die out as a vernacular within a decade in the Irish-speaking regions of Ireland (Ó Giollagáin & Charlton, 2015). This trend ... -
After the end of history: Utopia, cities, and the populist imagination
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-14)Following the electoral success of populist movements in Europe and the Americas throughout the 2010s, liberal democracy is widely believed to be in crisis—a stark contrast to its jubilant victory over alternative ... -
Along the way: a multi-method examination of tourism, identity, and community values on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-04)Background Marine and coastal tourism plays an indisputably crucial role in global tourism, yet there remains a dearth of academic attention afforded to coastal tourism trails in the Irish context. Cultural aspects of ... -
Anglicisms in German radio media: A comparative study of the public service and private broadcasting sector
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)This thesis investigates the usage of anglicisms as mobile linguistic resources in both public service and private radio media in Germany. In previous research on anglicisms not much attention has been given to the medium ... -
Assessing and training analogical reasoning in young children using relational frame theory
(NUI Galway, 2021-09-23)Analogical responding is pervasive in everyday language and cognition and is a key component in learning. However, despite this, there is as yet relatively little behavioural research on 1) the age of emergence and 2) ... -
Assessing and training temporal relational responding in children
(NUI Galway, 2023-12-19)Time is a fundamentally important dimension of human experience and responding adaptively in terms of this dimension is critical to human personal and societal functioning. However, there is an important distinction ... -
Beati immaculati in via: Sin and reconciliation among the céli Dé of Tallaght and Terryglass
(NUI Galway, 2023-02-16)This dissertation researches the so-called céli Dé of the eighth and ninth centuries, in order to elucidate and reconstruct their beliefs on sin and reconciliation. Its contents are as follows: after a foreword that summarily ... -
Between the queer and the normative: Unorthodox representations of gender, power and desire in W. B. Yeats’s and Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Drama
(NUI Galway, 2021-10-08)This doctoral thesis re-examines W. B. Yeats’s and Gabriele D’Annunzio’s drama through the lens of queer theory offering the novel contention that due to their involvement in queer and feminist subcultures, their plays ... -
The bottomless care pyramid: a decolonial feminist ethnography of equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Galway
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-12)This thesis examines tensions between feminist demands for transformations in higher education and the creation of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) governance structures at an Irish institution. Through a case ... -
Boundary behaviour in the Irish Bronze Age: A study of social and ritual practices in the mid-late Bronze Age
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-08)The purpose of this thesis is to gain an insight into how boundaries were understood and utilised in the social and ritual lives of Bronze Age people. Boundaries are known in many forms, from visible physical linear ... -
Building the evidence base for the development and implementation of an Irish national digital Type 2 Diabetes prevention programme
(NUI Galway, 2022-12-09)Background: Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) represents a major public health concern. Over one million annual deaths worldwide are attributed to the disease, making it the ninth leading cause of mortality. In Ireland, the ... -
Care and control: The experience of the Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial school system, 1868-1936
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-20)This thesis is a historical investigation into the experience of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial schools, from the introduction of the system in 1868 to the publication of the Cussen Report in 1936. It ... -
Constructing the good king: Biblical exempla in Sedulous Scottus’ De Rectoribus Christianis
(NUI Galway, 2023-06-13)De Rectoribus Christianis (DRC) is a mid-ninth century political treatise, written by the Irish scholar Sedulius Scottus. The text is an example of the specula principum (‘mirrors for princes’) genre, and it instructs ... -
Contested space: The revolutionary intersection of land hunger, memory and social justice impulse, within a rural west of Ireland community, 1793-1925 (a North Mayo case study)
(NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt’, according to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George writing in Spring 1919. This ... -
Control in a time of conflict: Women’s petitions in Ireland from 1541 to 1584
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-15)This dissertation provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of Anglophone women’s petition letter-writing in Tudor Ireland, from 1541-1583. This project provides both microhistories and quantitative rhetorical ... -
Counterfactual taxonomies: Evolution and empire in the work of Edward Lear
(NUI Galway, 2022-04-25)This dissertation interrogates the structures and patterns of Edward Lear’s (1812-1888) works as reflective of the evolution of nineteenth-century networks of empire and philosophies of the self and humanity’s place in ... -
A critical and textual history of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, with two editions of “Paradise and the Peri.”
(NUI Galway, 2009-09)The purpose of this three-part thesis is to construct a study which outlines the composition, publication and reception history of Thomas Moore’s Lalla Rookh, and to create two closely linked scholarly editions of ... -
A critical exploration of intercultural education in a post-primary school in Ireland with particular reference to travellers
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-09)This dissertation is about intercultural education in a post-primary school setting and Travellers’ experiences of education. Based within one very diverse post-primary DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, ... -
Cross-cultural judgments of personality and decision-making in job interviews
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-24)Introduction. Humans express their personality through their every-day behaviour. In this way, they provide other humans with cues for detecting personality with a certain degree of accuracy. Accurately judging a ... -
Deepening the theatre experience for young audiences: Mapping the aims and impact of extended performance engagement
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-22)Theatre for Young Audiences (TYA) commonly uses engagement practices to extend the theatrical experience for children and adults before and/or after a theatrical event. These are often referred to as wrap-around ...