Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Author "|~|1267880|~|"
Now showing items 1-16 of 16
-
Augmenting home exercise programmes in multiple sclerosis with 'exercise buddies' : A pilot study
Toomey, Elaine; Coote, Susan (Mark Allen Healthcare, 2017-02-21)Background: Non-ambulatory people with multiple sclerosis comprise 25% of the multiple sclerosis population. Literature reviews show insufficient evidence exists regarding physiotherapy for this population. A qualitative ... -
A booming country- a booming countryside? The Celtic Tiger phenomenon and the consequences for rural areas
Cawley, Mary (Ashgate, 2005)[No abstract available] -
Considering the ‘Impact’ of access and widening participation: the undergraduate, postgraduate and employment experiences of NUI Galway access students
Keane, Elaine (i Access Centre, NUI Galway, 2015-09)[No abstract available] -
Everyday creativity on a university campus: crafting a challenge to journey beyond the formal
McHugh, Sally; Concannon, Fiona; Hall, Tony (NUI Galway, 2017-08-23)This paper reports on an initiative to encourage staff, students and the wider community of an Irish university to engage in open, daily creative challenges, mediated by technology. The aim was to encourage creativity as ... -
Field-based learning: the challenge of practising participatory knowledge
Morrissey, John; Clavin, Alma; Reilly, Kathy (Taylor & Francis, 2013-05-14)In 2009, Geography at National University of Ireland, Galway, launched a new taught master's programme, the MA in Environment, Society and Development. The vision for the programme was to engage students in the analysis ... -
The Gaelic Undertow: Seán Ó hEochaidh's field trip to the Bluestacks in 1947
Ó Laoire, Lillis (Cambridge Scholars' Press, 2013)A discussion of perspectives by Seán Ó hEochaidh in life in the Bluestack Mountains, Co. Donegal, in the mid-twentieth century. -
Geoeconomics in the Long War
Morrissey, John (Wiley, 2015-09-15)In Neil Smith's American Empire (2003, University of California Press), he makes the case that the current moment of US global ambition is characterized by a network of imperial power that is exercised in the first place ... -
Governing the academic subject: Foucault, governmentality and the performing university
Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-19)Drawing on research conducted at National University of Ireland, Galway, this paper explores how senior managers at an Irish university are seeking to measure and facilitate academic performance in the context of national ... -
Leathscéal ag na Mná – An greann agus an inscne i scéal le Bab Feiritéar / Humor and gender in ‘The Woman’s Excuse’ as told by Bab Feiritéar
Ó Laoire, Lillis (2016)Discussion of the interplay of gender in humour in a telling of the tale ATU 'The Enchanted Pear Tree' by the Kerry storyteller Cáit (An Bhab) Feiritéar. -
Participative critical enquiry in graduate field-based learning
Reilly, Kathy; Clavin, Alma; Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2015-10-09)This paper outlines a critical pedagogic approach to field-based learning (FBL) at graduate level. Drawing on student experience stemming from a FBL module and as part of an MA programme in Environment, Society and ... -
Regimes of performance: practices of the normalised self in the neoliberal university
Morrissey, John (Taylor & Francis, 2013-11-07)Universities today inescapably find themselves part of nationally and globally competitive networks that appear firmly inflected by neoliberal concerns of rankings, benchmarking and productivity. This, of course, has in ... -
Rindoon Castle, Co. Roscommon: a border castle on the Irish frontier.
O'Conor, Kieran; Naessens, Paul; Sherlock, Rory (Publications du CRAHAM, Château Gaillard, Université de Caen., 2014)Rindoon Castle controlled and dominated one of the best harbours along the Shannon. It was argued that a pre-Norman promontory fort never existed at Rindoon. Instead, it is suggested that these earthworks represent the ... -
Securitizing instability: The US military and full spectrum operations
Morrissey, John (SAGE Publications, 2015-01-01)This paper examines the recent broadening of the US military’s overseas mission into what it calls ‘full spectrum operations’ and critiques how it is being enabled by what I term ‘full spectrum law’. The paper explores the ... -
Spatial justice and the Irish crisis
Kearns, Gerry; Meredith, David; Morrissey, John (Royal Irish Academy, 2014)[No abstract available] -
An teanga agus oidhreacht na namhrán i dToraigh
Ó Laoire, Lillis (Éigse Cholm Cille, 2016)A discussion of the role of performance, especially song in the maintenance of identity and culture in Tory Island with a focus on two song texts. -
Transcription maximized; expense Minimized? Crowdsourcing and editing The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham
Causer, Tim; Tonra, Justin; Wallace, Valerie (Oxford University Press, 2012-03-28)This article discusses the crowdsourced manuscript transcription project Transcribe Bentham, and how it will impact upon long-established editorial practices at the Bentham Project, University College London, which is ...