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Narrating in/security: women's activism in Kashmir
(2015-09)
This thesis explores women activists’ narratives of everyday experiences of in/security through a qualitative case study in Kashmir, northern India. In order to gather women’s in/security narratives I conducted 13 in-depth ...
Becoming learners across contexts: Kosovo postgraduate students’ transformative study abroad experiences in the UK
(2017-02-23)
This study examines transformative learning dimensions in the context of study abroad. The research uses an integrative approach of transformative learning theory to explore the learner identity transformations of 16 ...
Parks and Deer-Hunting: Evidence from Medieval Ireland
(2012-05-14)
This thesis examines aspects of hunting in later medieval Ireland, with particular reference to the Anglo-Norman period, from 1169 to c. 1350. The focus is on deer hunting and on parks, in which fallow deer could be kept. ...
'I'm not going to be able to leave'; The impact of belonging to the Irish farming community on university students' life experiences and transitions to adulthood
(2014-02-10)
Despite extensive research into family farming culture little attention has been paid to young people raised in this community who do not become full-time farmers. This thesis explores the childhood experiences of university ...
Identity Formation Among Teenaged Members of the Muslim Population of Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
(2012-08-29)
Younger members of Muslim populations in Western society are placed at the frontline of the immigration process. As a result of daily school attendance and exposure to the media they are often heavily influenced by the ...
Representing experience - diversifying representation: blind and visually impaired men’s voice-centered narratives of self and identity in everyday life
(NUI Galway, 2019-04-11)
This research examines disabled men's identities and lived experiences from the perspective of blindness and visual impairment. The first objective is to represent disability, make it visible, with lived accounts that ...
Roddy Doyle en version française: que devient l'identité irlandaise en traduction?
(NUI Galway, 2019-01-25)
La notion de l’identité en traduction est incontestablement épineuse : la langue étant le premier véhicule identitaire en littérature, comment ne rien perdre avec la disparition de la langue source et est-il possible de ...
The flute in Flamenco social practice: An analysis of timbre, processes of hybridisation, and indigenisation (1975-2017)
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-10)
This thesis explores the introduction and integration of the flute in flamenco. Since its codification in the 1850s, flamenco has been associated with ethnic, regional and national identity in Spain (Gypsy, Andalusian and ...
Altering legacies as ‘A Farmer in My Own Right’: married women's experiences of farm property ownership in Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-01-31)
A number of women living on family farms own farm property in their own right. This is an unexplored research area in Ireland. Gender inequalities in the ownership and control of farm property have consequences for women’s ...
Writing through the trauma of her past: Patterns of repression and a fragmented sense of self in the literature of Christa Wolf
(2017-09-08)
This project aims to offer a re-evaluation of the literature of Christa Wolf and change the focus of the questions posed in relation to her literary legacy. Shifting the focus away from a denouncement of her character and ...