Browsing University of Galway Theses by Subject "Irish"
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An edition, translation and analysis of the Senchas Már Status-Tract
(NUI Galway, 2021-07-06)The main aim of this thesis is to provide a reliable edition and translation of the legal tract known in modern scholarship as the Senchas Már Status-Tract as it survives in both Trinity College Dublin, MS H 4. 22 (1363) ... -
Establishing an evidence base for the development of porn literacy interventions for adolescents
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-20)Background In recent years, many claims have been made regarding the impact of pornography on young peoples’ sexual development. Acknowledging the ease of access to pornography, its role as a source of sexual information ... -
"Extraordinary Debilities": Disability in the works of Samuel Beckett, 1928-45
(2018-02-16)This thesis considers the importance of Samuel Beckett’s representations of disability in the first half of the twentieth-century. It suggests that the innovations of form that Beckett brings to modernism are inextricably ... -
John McGahern's house of vision: From darkness to the rising sun
(NUI Galway, 2020-11-17)John McGahern (1934-2006) believed that books could act as mirrors. They can also act as windows on the world. Such windows, however, necessarily frame our fields of vision, alter and shape our perspectives. Far from being ... -
Labour agency and the Dubai Irish
(NUI Galway, 2021-03-09)An Irish community has been established in Dubai since 1974, with a surge in those migrating from Ireland to Dubai during the Great Recession (2008-2014). Since 2014 the approximate number of Irish migrants has increased ... -
Language, ideology and power in contemporary Ireland
(2016-09-07)This Dissertation aims to explore Gaelic identity and its relationship with the Irish language in contemporary Ireland. It consists of (1) a theoretical research of ethnic reality, (2) an historical research of ethnic ... -
Performing social change on the island of Ireland, 1972-2014
(NUI Galway, 2019-08-26)This dissertation analyses the relationship between moments of significant social change on the island of Ireland and performance practice between 1972-2014. Through investigating the Troubles, Second-Wave Feminism, and ... -
The position of Irish Catholics in the Officer Corps of the British Army: 1829-1899
(NUI Galway, 2018-12-18)The chief objective of this dissertation is to attempt to answer the question of whether or not Irish Catholics formed a disproportionately small element of the Officer Corps of the British Army, in the period following ...