Browsing by Subject "Humanities"
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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 ... -
Coming 'Home': place, belonging and second-generation return migration from England to Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)This thesis contributes to the growing academic interest in the second-generation of migrants and the connections they maintain with their parental places of origin. It focuses on the children of the Irish emigrants to ... -
An edition of Cath Cairn Chonaill with full apparatus and translation, together with a detailed study of its literary and cultural context
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)The aim of my research has been to edit to modern standards the important Old and Middle Irish king-tale Cath Cairn Chonaill. The editorial work is accompanied by full transcripts of the manuscript witnesses on which it ... -
Equally existing objects: Tracing the emergence of non-hierarchical being through film and Occupy Wall Street
(NUI Galway, 2017-04-06)This project aims to trace the emergence of a non-hierarchical being, from 1999 to roughly 2013. The type of being under discussion is one that allows for all things to equally exist, outside of a human-world correlation, ... -
Expression and silence: the language of phenomenology in Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-31)This thesis is a comparative study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to their engagement with the problem of phenomenological expression. My central argument is that by reading Wittgenstein in this way, we can begin ... -
Farming in contemporary Irish fictional narratives: A critical, comparative and creative response
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-13)This practice-in-research dissertation combines creative writing and literary criticism to explore the farm narratives that arose in Ireland due to expansionist agricultural ideologies, and by extension considers what is ... -
Flashes of modernity: stage design at the Abbey Theatre, 1902-1966
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)Responding to Guy Julier’s call for a “knowing practice” of design studies, this doctoral thesis reveals Ireland’s negotiation with modernity through stage design. I use historian T.J. Clark’s definition of modernity as ... -
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 ... -
From Gaelic lordships to English counties: the Tudor transition in Leix and Offaly, c.1547-1603
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-29)This study evaluates whether or not successive Tudor regimes effectively transformed the Gaelic lordships of Leix and Offaly into English counties and as a direct consequence, administered these territories through the ... -
From hybrid bodies to haunted bodies: Mobile technologies, affect and theatre
(2017-09-22)Mobile digital technologies - from smartphones, to wearables, to pervasive technologies - are transforming the ways in which we experience our own bodies, and the ways in which we experience the world through our bodies. ... -
A godly Sybilla, an erudite wife and a burdensome sister: the formation and representation of women’s reputations within the Hartlib Circle 1641-1661
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)This thesis analyses the formation and representation of the reputations of three women: Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691); Dorothy Moore Dury (c.1612-1664); and Jean Appelius (fl.1638-1648), whose connection ... -
Home Rule from a transnational perspective: The Irish Parliamentary Party and the United Irish League of America, 1901-1918
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-04)When John Redmond was elected chairman of the reunited Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP) in 1900, he quickly identified a pressing need to re-engage Irish America. Ireland’s largest diaspora had grown weary of constitutional ... -
I-Ulysses: poetry in motion. An educational virtual reality guide to the unfolding events of the ‘Wandering Rocks’ chapter of Joyce’s Ulysses.
(2016-01-29)A spatial and temporal virtual reality experience, guiding the user through the unfolding events of the ‘Wandering Rocks’ chapter of James Joyce’s Ulysses. This is an educational tool intended to help the user understand ... -
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 ... -
Inventing Liberia: imagining and representing colony and nation in American, Liberian and European writing 1820-1940
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-11)Liberia, the West African nation, whose name connotes freedom, was the creation of the American Colonisation Society (ACS) whose initial aim was to rid the United States of a growing population of ‘free people of colour.’ ... -
Landscape legacies: the renegotiation of the Irish west in contemporary visual culture
(NUI Galway, 2019-02-21)This thesis examines the cultural legacy of the landscape of the West of Ireland and its lasting impact on the contemporary visualization of the region. Through a critical examination of the historic underpinning and ... -
Living the stories we create: an educational response to narrative in the digital age
(2015-11-30)Narrative forms, play a vital role in human enrichment and development. Through them we acquire a sense not only of our environment, but of our own identity. We are drawn to describe our world and subsequently seek to ... -
Mid Ræde ond Mid Rihte Geleafan: Leadership in the Old English Judith
(2012-01-10)The purpose of this thesis is to provide an examination of leadership as portrayed in the Old English Judith. The poet employs three elements - fortitudo, sapientia and anima - that are portrayed as crucial in a successful ... -
Nietzsche's askesis and philosophy as a style of life
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-08)In its original Greek sense askesis means ‘exercise.’ As such askesis is practical; it names the very idea of practice as an activity, and askesis is aspirational; it indicates an aim for which the practice is undertaken. ... -
The politics of melancholia in twentieth-century Irish drama by women: Augusta Gregory, Teresa Deevy, Christina Reid and Marina Carr
(NUI Galway, 2017-09-30)This thesis explores the dynamics of national and historical melancholia as invoked in twentieth-century drama of four Irish women, Augusta Gregory (1852-1932), Teresa Deevy (1894-1963), Christina Reid (1942-2015), and ...