• (Post) human rights, poverty and inequality: problems of algocracy, pharmocracy and chemocracy 

  Khoo, Su-Ming (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021-09)

  This chapter explores new questions for human rights in a context of extreme poverty and inequalities of income, wealth, political power and biological life. Minimalist and contradictory narratives of poverty and inequality ...

• A guided scratch visual execution environment to introduce programming concepts to CS1 students 

  Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia; Palacios-Alonso, Daniel; Borrás-Gené, Oriol (MDPI, 2021-09-17)

  First-year computer science (CS1) university students traditionally have difficulties understanding how to program. This paper describes research introducing CS1 students to programming concepts using a Scratch programming ...

• Givenness, grace and Marion's Augustinianism 

  Ó Murchadha, Felix (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018-12)

  Marion's account of the ego can be understood as an Augustinian critique of the capable ego from Descartes to Kant. This paper will discuss such post-Kantian Augustinianism as a response to a certain Pelagian Stoicism ...

• The temporality of violence: Destruction, dissolution and the construction of sense 

  Ó Murchadha, Felix (Palgrave and McMillan, 2019-11-24)

  Violence tends to the destruction of meaningful entities and of that in and through which such entities are meaningful. Not all violence is annihilating in its effects, but violence aims towards a nothingness in which is ...

• Teacher agency and learner agency in teaching and learning a new school subject, Leaving Certificate Computer Science, in Ireland: Considerations for teacher education 

  Scanlon, Dylan; Connolly, Cornelia (Elsevier, 2021-07-30)

  A new school subject, Leaving Certificate Computer Science, was introduced in September 2018 into Irish schools in a period of curriculum reform and change. Drawing on concepts of teacher agency and learner agency, and ...

• Analysis of three methodological approaches in the use of gamification in vocational training 

  Garcia-Iruela, Miguel; Hijón-Neira, Raquel; Connolly, Cornelia (MDPI, 2021-07-28)

  A reduced interest and low motivation in learning amongst vocational students has become a challenge with many traditional strategies not capable of providing a solution to motivation and encouraging participation in ...

• Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, sleep problems, challenging behavior, adaptive behavior, and quality of life in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder 

  Leader, Geraldine; Dooley, Emma; Whelan, Sally; Gilroy, Shawn P.; Chen, June L.; Farren Barton, Autumn; Coyne, Rory; Mannion, Arlene (Taylor and Francis, 2021-08-08)

  This study investigated the relationship between sleep, gastrointestinal symptoms, challenging behavior, adaptive behavior, and quality of life between children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), with and ...

• The social, cultural and environmental costs of hyper-connectivity: Sleeping through the revolution 

  Hynes, Mike (Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021-08-17)

  This book seeks broader critical engagement with the design, development and adoption processes of contemporary digital technologies. Such technology has been the catalyst for great improvements in the fields of medicine, ...

• Okra in translation: Asylum seekers, food, and integration 

  Ciribuco, Andrea (John Benjamins, 2021-06-18)

  This article explores the theme of food translation, based on research conducted in Italy in 2018 with a group of asylum seekers from different West African countries. It concentrates on a community gardening project ...

• Liminal citizenship: Young people's perspectives on civic and political engagement in three European cities 

  Chaskin, Robert; Brady, Bernadine; McGregor, Caroline (University of Chicago Press, 2021-06)

  Concerns about young people s disengagement from civic and political life, particularly disengagement of those from marginalized backgrounds, are prominent in contemporary discourse and increasingly serve as an impetus ...

• ‘New speakers’ on Irish language community radio: new understandings of linguistic variation on Raidió na Life 

  Walsh, John; Day, Rosemary (Routledge, 2021-07-19)

  This article examines the use of Irish on the community radio station Raidió na Life which has broadcast to Dublin since 1993. By admitting and indirectly valorising a variety of linguistic styles, Raidió na Life can be ...

• Transition program from school to employment in youths with intellectual disability: Evaluation of the Irish pilot study E-IDEAS 

  Traina, Ivan; Mannion, Arlene; Leader, Geraldine (Taylor & Francis, 2021-06-29)

  Aim: The purpose of this pilot was to evaluate the effectiveness of the E-IDEAS curriculum, specifically designed for workplace inclusion of youths with intellectual disabilities (ID) and aimed to transfer social, ...

• Gaming disorder in adults with autism spectrum disorder 

  Murray, Alayna; Mannion, Arlene; Chen, June L.; Leader, Geraldine (Springer, 2021-06-28)

  Gaming disorder (GD) is a clinical addiction to video or internet games. This study investigated whether GD symptoms are heightened in adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in comparison to a control group, and explored ...

• Restoring the parental position in the face of emerging childhood challenges with non violent resistance 

  Kelly, Tara; Coogan, Declan (Family Therapy Association of Ireland, 2020)

  Behaviours associated with child to parent violence and abuse (CPVA) and anxiety can paralyse parents and children in a cycle of fear, intimidation and parental accommodation. Psychotherapists and practitioners can also ...

• Planetary precarity and 'More-Than-Human Security' : The securitization challenge in the aftermath of COVID-19 

  Morrissey, John (Librello, 2021-07-09)

  COVID-19 has elevated anew the import of holistically conceiving human-environmental well-being and tackling the overarching precarities of our ecologies, societies and public health in strategies of securitization. This ...

• The absence of tragedy in Ifigenia (1950) by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester 

  Shaughnessy, Lorna (Liverpool University Press, 2021-02-01)

  Gonzalo Torrente Ballester s novella, Ifigenia (1950) has been read consistently as a critique of the consolidating Francoist state of the 1940s and an early example of his demythologising technique. This article seeks ...

• Nicolas Sarkozy: Performing the French presidency 

  Stewart, Maura (Intellect, 2021-03-01)

  A presidential election can be viewed as a national drama in which a candidate casts herself/himself as a courageous protagonist who seeks to become a collective symbol that embodies the best qualities of the nation. Drawing ...

• Plean teanga chathair na Gaillimhe 2020 - 2026 

  Walsh, John; Ní Uigín, Dorothy; Callinan, Luke; Fogarty, Philip; Rowland, Hugh (Gaillimh le Gaeilge, 2021-06-30)

  Plean Teanga do Chathair na Gaillimhe arna ullmhú faoi Acht na Gaeltachta 2012/Irish Language Plan for Galway City as prepared under the Gaeltacht Act 2012.

• An observational narrative of student reaction to video hooks 

  McCauley, Veronica; McHugh, Martin (MDPI, 2021-06-08)

  Digital video has become a dominant form of student learning in and beyond the classroom, and thus its pervasive nature in contemporary learning environments commands scholarly inquiry. In this paper we explore a participatory ...

• Book history and digital humanities in the long eighteenth century 

  Tonra, Justin (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021)

  This article examines the current state of research at the intersections of book history and digital humanities within the field of eighteenth-century studies. It addresses the popular and intellectual origins of the nexus ...

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