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Industrial finance in independent Ireland: The Trade Loans (Guarantee) Acts, 1924-1939
(2018-02-22)
This thesis examines and analyses the first industrial policy initiative undertaken in independent Ireland. The Trade Loans (Guarantee) Act, 1924, allowed the state to guarantee loans borrowed by firms for their business ...
Cultural glocalization or resistance? Interrogating the production of YouTube videos at an Irish summer college through practice-based research
(2017-03)
This thesis includes the film Dúshlán Lurgan/The Lurgan Challenge and a written exegesis which reflects on the film's 'generative performance'. The film asks if making Irish-language versions of music videos in English at ...
Balance, binary debate and missing women: a discourse analysis and creative response to 30 years of the abortion debate on RTÉ current affairs television, 1983-2013
(2017-02-23)
Since the introduction of a foetal right to life into the Irish Constitution in 1983, abortion has persisted as a contentious issue in public debate in Ireland. This practice-based study investigates Irish public discourse ...
Negotiating the landscape: Prehistoric and early medieval movement in a landscape of esker and bog
(2017-10-20)
The aim of this thesis is to understand movement and the evolution of routeways. The role of the individual and their decision-making process is discussed as a fundamental factor in the origins of paths and routeways. This ...
Novel methods of benthic habitat assessment in designated waterbodies around Ireland
(2017-01-06)
The European Union has implemented some of the most progressive conservation Directives in the world. These Directives are implemented in different ways, have different reporting cycles and use unique terminologies. The ...
Promoting 'English Civility' in Tudor Ireland: ideology and the rhetoric of difference
(2016-09-27)
This study deals with the concept of ‘English civility’ as the ideology behind Tudor endeavours in sixteenth-century Ireland. While this phenomenon found frequent mention by scholars on Tudor Ireland in the form of an ...
Identification of bioactive natural products after screening Irish marine bio-resources
(2016-10-21)
According to the “Real Map of Ireland” published by Marine Institute, Ireland, the Nation marine territory has ten times more area than its land mass. Despite the well-studied and reported biodiversity present in Irish ...
An exploration of the European landscape convention as a guiding framework for multi-scalar landscape governance in the territories of Catalonia (Spain) and the Republic of Ireland
(2016-05-13)
The spatial dimensions of many social, economic and environmental challenges
facing 21st century societies can be addressed through the idea of landscape. Scholars
working in the area of environmental and landscape change ...
Independent living for people with disability and high dependency needs - Why we need a P.A. Act and what it might look like in the Irish context
(NUI Galway, 2019-06-26)
This research examines the legislative context for Independent Living for people with disabilities and high dependency needs in Ireland. The CRPD provides the key platform for this and reaffirms the fundamental rights of ...
Ritual in Late Bronze Age Ireland - Material Culture, Practices, Landscape Setting and Social Context
(2014-02-20)
This thesis develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record, as well as determining how distinct ritual practices relate to ...