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Fios na mban. The role of women in death and burial customs in Erris in post-famine Ireland: evidence from the archive of the Irish Folklore Commission
(2016-11-16)
This thesis examines the role and contributions of women to mortuary ritual in Erris in the post-Famine era. The written evidence for the project is based on the oral testaments of both women and men mainly but not exclusively ...
Preserving control: understanding people's experiences before, during and after involuntary admission under the Mental Health Act 2001
(2016-06-08)
Aim: To generate a grounded theory to understand people’s experiences before, during and after involuntary admission and/or detention.
Background: The MHA (2001) provides a legal framework for the involuntary admission ...
Narratives of slimming: women and weight management in Irish society
(2016-11-18)
This PhD study presents a feminist sociological analysis of the construction of narratives of slimming in Irish society. Theoretically, the study is informed by three main arguments: firstly, that the pursuit/attainment ...
Investigation of intron coevolution and the autoimmune potential of alternative splicing
(2016-07-20)
Introns are non-coding intergenic sequences that are routinely excised from nascent pre-mRNA transcripts by a process known as splicing. Although they do not contribute directly to the protein-coding sequences of genes, ...
The benign synthesis of bioactive heterocycles using photochemistry and hydrogen peroxide with hydrohalic acids
(2016-07-08)
Chapter 1 provides a pertinent review of recent photochemical homolytic aromatic substitution (HAS) literature. Photochemical methods for HAS include UV-light and visible light photoredox catalysis. Recently invented methods ...
Identification of IRS4 and TOP2A as novel CDC7 kinase interacting proteins
(2016-02-08)
CDC7 is an essential serine/threonine kinase required for the initiation of DNA
replication in eukaryotic cells, through phosphorylating the MCM helicase complex.
Formation of an active kinase requires the binding to ...
From Connemara to Minnesota: The Nugent Emigration Scheme, 1880
(2016-05-10)
Abstract
This study examines an assisted emigration scheme undertaken by Father James Nugent of Liverpool in June 1880. With the support of Bishop John Ireland of St Paul, Minnesota, Nugent transferred thirty-five destitute ...
Equality omitted reform: an exploration of 'egalitarian' and 'efficiency' principles in Irish health care provision within an institutionalist framework.
(2016-05-11)
This thesis is an exploratory study of the theory and practice of equality in shaping modern policy conceptions of access and entitlement to health care provision. In most modern democratic societies, the principles of ...
Representations of genders and ethnicities in the historical fiction of Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías
(2016-08-26)
This thesis analyses the ways in which Chilean authors Mercedes Valdivieso and Gustavo Frías re-examine and engage with ideas of gender and ethnicity through their fictional representation of Catalina de los Ríos y Lisperguer ...
Reverse genetic analysis of Cep164 in vertebrates
(2016-05-12)
Components of the centrosome have been reported to have a role in the DNA Damage Response (DDR) pathway. Cep164, a protein localised to the distal appendages of centrioles, is theorised to play a part in the DDR. As with ...