Browsing NUI Galway Theses by Subject "Ireland"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Everyday racism in the west of Ireland
(2016-09-30)Everyday life might be described as a rhythmic flow of routines and practices that frame social life’s multitudinous interactional episodes. Everyday social life is also punctuated by various types of racism that can be ... -
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 ... -
Family Support as an Approach to Working with Children and Families in Ireland: An Explorative Study of Past and Present Perspectives among Pioneers and Practitioners
(2011-08-09)In Ireland, the value and merit of Family Support as an approach to working with children is debated and contested. From a policy and practice perspective, Family Support is at times recognised and applauded as a worthwhile ... -
Farming and woodland dynamics in north Sligo during the Holocene based on lake-sediment investigations
(2012-10-31)Detailed pollen-analytical investigations were carried out on lake sediment cores from two lakes, namely Lough Dargan and Cooney Lough, in north County Sligo close to the Cúil Irra peninsula. North Sligo was chosen as a ... -
From Connemara to Minnesota: The Nugent Emigration Scheme, 1880
(2016-05-10)Abstract This study examines an assisted emigration scheme undertaken by Father James Nugent of Liverpool in June 1880. With the support of Bishop John Ireland of St Paul, Minnesota, Nugent transferred thirty-five destitute ... -
Greenhouse gas policies in Ireland 1990 -2012 : Reliance on the land
(14-08-01)This research sought to determine the extent to which national greenhouse gas (GHG) policy relied upon the land, through afforestation, controls on agriculture, and expansion of bioenergy. The implications of this reliance ... -
The health economics of obesity in Ireland
(2016-05-13)An abundant literature exists linking obesity to a range of health conditions as well as premature mortality (Calle et al., 1999, Larsson et al., 1984, Jagielski et al., 2014, Kearns et al., 2014, Pi-Sunyer, 1999, Reilly ... -
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 ... -
The importance of a continuum of care before, during and after pregnancy in women with type 1 and type 2 diabetes along the Irish Atlantic seaboard
(2017-04-06)Pregestational diabetes is the most common chronic medical condition to complicate pregnancy and is associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality for the mother-offspring pair. Optimising outcomes for this ... -
The Introduction of a legal framework for Advance Directives in Irish mental health care
(2014-06-03)Advance directives (ADs) are legal statements or documents, which allow a person to outline treatment preferences and other life choices prior to a mental health crisis. This thesis examines the issues arising in relation ... -
Irish perceptions of national identity in Austria-Hungary and its small successor states, 1914-1945
(2015-09-28)This thesis sets out to explore Irish perceptions of and connections with the Dual Monarchy and its successor states, spanning from 1914 until 1945, with the intention of demonstrating the significance of small nations in ... -
Last of the hunters or the next scientists? Arguments for and against the inclusion of fishers and their knowledge in mainstream fisheries management
(2012-02-27)The concept of fishers' knowledge is one that has largely been marginalised in mainstream fisheries management, often characterised by soft ecological narratives and social insights when the bias of fisheries managers is ... -
Masquerade, self-invention and the nation: uncovering the fiction of Katherine Cecil Thurston
(2014-03-07)This dissertation explores the life and works of Cork-born novelist, Katherine Cecil Thurston (1875-1911). Thurston occupies a liminal place in the Irish literary canon in spite of achieving significant transatlantic success ... -
"Midwives to Creativity": A Study of Salmon Publishing, 1981-2007
(2012-09-27)The first half of this dissertation demonstrates that individual voices rarely develop in isolation, and takes as its premise that behind every individual poetic voice lies a history of community or coterie dynamics which ...