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Prosodic training in foreign language: a study with Hiberno-English learners of Italian
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-28)
Mastering prosodic features is deemed as one of the most important objectives in language learning. The Council of Europe has recently published the New Companion Volume to the Common European Framework of Reference for ...
The utopics of improvement in eighteenth-century visual representations of Irish demesnes
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-03)
Eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish society has been characterised as having a utopian structure of feeling, a common set of perceptions and values that grew out of the intellectual and pragmatic activities associated with ...
Between authorities: Exercises and experiments in literary appreciation
(NUI Galway, 2019-07-16)
Literary criticism, of the type that follows in this project, is a series of experiments with and about the matter of authority: about how much authority a critic should want to have or be willing to give up, and how much ...
Through-process characterisation for welding, microstructure evolution and constitutive response of 9Cr steel material for flexible power plant operation
(NUI Galway, 2020-05-06)
This thesis presents a combined experimental and computational characterisation programme of work for development of a through-process modelling methodology for the welding, post-weld heat treatment and in-service performance ...
An experimental and computational investigation of the high temperature behaviour of MarBN steel with application to effects of manufacturing
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-30)
The key step for next generation power plants is the development of advanced materials capable of achieving high flexibility and efficiency at increased steam temperatures and pressures. Such operating conditions will cause ...
Lords of land and labour: a comparison of Antebellum Mississippi's John A. Quitman and Nineteenth-Century Ireland's Lord Clonbrock
(2015-12-17)
This study investigates similarities, differences, and connections between antebellum U.S. Southern slaveholders and nineteenth-century Irish landowners. In particular, it focuses on the comparison of Mississippi’s John ...
Exploring community living in Ireland: Experiences of ageing with and into disability
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-16)
This research examines the topic of community living for older persons with disabilities. This group comprises people who are ageing with disabilities, either lifelong or earlier onset, as well as people who are ageing ...
“Then sing England for ever, and Erin-go-bragh”: Irishness in the English-printed, nineteenth-century street ballad
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-02)
Throughout the nineteenth century, Ireland was by far the most dominant national
trope in English-printed street balladry, appearing as specified place in English streetballadry almost as much as England itself. Ireland ...
Pobal sa naoú haois déag á athrú is á nua-aoisiú: An Cheathrú Rua agus Ceantar na n-Oileán
(NUI Galway, 2019-11-18)
Léargas ar phobal daoine a lonnaigh ar chósta thiar theas Chonamara, i nGarmna agus sa gCillín, agus arbh éigean dóibh tabhairt faoi athruithe agus nua-aoisiú le linn an naoú haois déag, idir athruithe ar úinéireacht ...
Mediating alternative imaginaries of aid and development: The possibilities and challenges for contemporary NGOs
(NUI Galway, 2020-03-14)
This thesis extends considerations around the role that geography can play in disrupting dominant representational tropes through which Global North publics understand distant people and places. Through a focus on NGO ...