Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Ireland"
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Along the way: a multi-method examination of tourism, identity, and community values on Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way
(NUI Galway, 2023-01-04)Background Marine and coastal tourism plays an indisputably crucial role in global tourism, yet there remains a dearth of academic attention afforded to coastal tourism trails in the Irish context. Cultural aspects of ... -
Archaeological watermarks: Settlement, landscape and seasonal flooding in historical Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-21)Turloughs are karst wetland ecosystems that are virtually unique to Ireland. They are intermittently inundated on an annual basis, mainly from groundwater. This thesis concerns the interaction of past communities with the ... -
Assessment of measuring and monitoring safety in healthcare in Ireland and Saudi Arabia
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-04)In the past two decades, governments worldwide have prioritised the improvement of health care quality and safety as a primary policy goal. However, progress towards achieving this goal has been limited. The provision ... -
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 ... -
Borrowers and lenders in the residential mortgage context: legacy of the financial crisis on regulatory frameworks in Ireland and Spain
(2016-09-27)The Global Financial Crisis is clearly identifiable as a catalyst for reform of financial regulation and supervision in the period from 2008 onwards. It was also the starting point for the emergence of an indebtedness ... -
The bottomless care pyramid: a decolonial feminist ethnography of equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives at the University of Galway
(NUI Galway, 2024-03-12)This thesis examines tensions between feminist demands for transformations in higher education and the creation of equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) governance structures at an Irish institution. Through a case ... -
Boundary behaviour in the Irish Bronze Age: A study of social and ritual practices in the mid-late Bronze Age
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-08)The purpose of this thesis is to gain an insight into how boundaries were understood and utilised in the social and ritual lives of Bronze Age people. Boundaries are known in many forms, from visible physical linear ... -
Building educational partnerships: An illustration of the disparities between policy and practice of the Home, School and Community Liaison Programme through an exploration of the challenges that HSCL Coordinators experience in its implementation
(NUI Galway, 2019-03-20)Poverty inhibits pupils from reaching their full educational potential. A body of literature exists which suggests that pupils experiencing financial deprivation or who have parents with lower levels of education are more ... -
Care and control: The experience of the Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial school system, 1868-1936
(NUI Galway, 2022-09-20)This thesis is a historical investigation into the experience of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy run Irish industrial schools, from the introduction of the system in 1868 to the publication of the Cussen Report in 1936. It ... -
Children and parents' participation: socio-ecological perspectives on health promotion in schools
(2014-10-31)Schools are a key setting for health promotion. The development of Health Promoting Schools (HPS) draws on the settings-based approach to health promotion and includes child participation as one of its basic values. The ... -
Chironomid response to prehistoric farming in northwest Ireland
(2017-12-20)This article-based PhD thesis explored the utility and performance of chironomid (Diptera: Chironomidae) autecology in the investigation of prehistoric farming impacts on freshwater lake systems. Chironomid subfossils, ... -
The context and circumstances of early sexual initiation among adolescents in Ireland: A mixed methods investigation
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-25)Adolescents who initiate sexual intercourse at early ages may be at a heightened risk of negative sexual health outcomes at the time of first sex and later in life. In the case of Ireland, there is inadequate knowledge ... -
Control in a time of conflict: Women’s petitions in Ireland from 1541 to 1584
(NUI Galway, 2024-04-15)This dissertation provides the first comprehensive and detailed study of Anglophone women’s petition letter-writing in Tudor Ireland, from 1541-1583. This project provides both microhistories and quantitative rhetorical ... -
Criminal children in post-Famine Connacht: Poverty, crime and punishment, with a particular focus on the period 1854-1870
(2012-09-21)This study examines the extent and nature of juvenile crime in Connacht from 1854 to 1884, and looks at how poor and criminal children were treated in the west of Ireland in this period. Most studies of juvenile crime in ... -
A critical exploration of intercultural education in a post-primary school in Ireland with particular reference to travellers
(NUI Galway, 2020-09-09)This dissertation is about intercultural education in a post-primary school setting and Travellers’ experiences of education. Based within one very diverse post-primary DEIS (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools, ... -
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 ... -
Developing an age-friendly county programme in Fingal: Older people’s lived experiences and the WHO age-friendly conceptual framework
(NUI Galway, 2019-05-23)Developing age-friendly communities is a significant global policy issue. The WHO (2007) age-friendly cities and communities initiative has had a significant influence on the development of Ireland’s Age-Friendly Programme. ... -
The development and validation of a measure assessing gender role conflict in male adolescents
(2014-01-08)The purpose of these studies was to develop a psychometrically sound questionnaire that addresses outstanding empirical issues in adolescent gender role conflict and, in so doing, enhance understanding of the negative ... -
The Development of Farmed Cod in Ireland
(2012-05-25)This study is interlinked with the work programme of the EIROCD project. Utilising historical data and empirical experimental approaches, various aspects of development, growth and phenotypic plasticity of North Atlantic ... -
The development, implementation, and evaluation of a theory-based concussion education programme for secondary school Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) athletes
(NUI Galway, 2018-05)Sport-related concussion (SRC) is a public health concern (Thurman, Branche, & Sniezek, 1998), especially among children and adolescent athletes, as their brains are still developing (Field, Collins, Lovell & Marron, 2003; ...