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Evaluating conversation partner programmes: perspectives of people with aphasia
(2016-06-22)
Background
Stroke is the most common cause of disability in the western World. Approximately 176,000 new individuals in the United Kingdom and Ireland are diagnosed with stroke annually with up to one third experiencing ...
Vineta: the Vineta 'Sage' and its reception in German literary texts from the 1820s to 1989
(NUI Galway, 2018-11-21)
The dissertation explores the myth of the sunken city of Vineta, supposedly destroyed in the twelfth century, and its reception in German literature from the 1820s to the late twentieth century. It analyses the reports in ...
International News Supply in Ireland, c.1899-1949
(2014-07-03)
During the first half of the twentieth century the Irish media were primarily reliant on news agencies for their coverage of international events. The Press Association was their dominant and often favoured supplier among ...
Performing the Pied-Noir family: Weaving narratives of memory and identity
(2014-03-10)
Although the Algerian war (1954-1962) is now fifty years past, it remains a contentious issue in France. In the aftermath of this particularly violent conflict, the French public was encouraged to forget the hostilities ...
The role of the endocannabinoid system in the affective modulation of pain
(2015-09-30)
Pain represents a major unmet clinical need and affects a large number of individuals worldwide. Numerous studies indicate a very high prevalence of chronic pain comorbid with psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and ...
From Carnacon to Cape Town: An interpretive study of the transnational career of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore (1854-1939), soldier, diplomat and politician
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)
In this thesis, the contextual, thematic, biography of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore, a Catholic member of the Irish Ascendancy is used as a prism through which to interpret and reflect on a military and political career ...
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 ...
Framing open space-time in the films of Jean Renoir: society, ideology, technology
(2016-02-01)
In the films of Jean Renoir (1894-1979), class strata clash in public and private spheres, alternately eroding and bolstering ideological values, and implementing traumatic social upheaval on a local, national, or even ...