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The paradox of the periphery: evolution of the Cape Breton fiddle tradition c1928 - 1995

Doherty, Elizabeth, Anne (University of Limerick, 1996)

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the evolution of the Cape Breton fiddle tradition, a process which I believe can be reasonably considered to have started in the early decades of this century. The Scottish element ...
Parents supporting parents: an evaluative report on the National Parent Support Programme Mid-West

O'Connor, Pat (Mid-Western Health Board, 1999)

no abstract available
Parish pedagogies: an analysis of Irish pre-school practice using the early childhood environmental rating scales

Neylon, Gerardine (University of Limerick, 2011)

This research applies the Early Childhood Environmental Rating Scales/Revised and the Extension four Curricular Subscales (ECERS/R/E) in a systematic way to measure standards of pre-school provision in Ireland. This ...
Partisanship or cognitive mobilisation? A case study of the 2003 Czech EU accession referendum

Andersen, Annelin (University of Limerick, Department of Politics and Public Administration, 2009)

The literature which explores public opinion formation processes in the newly democratised EU member states in Central and Eastern Europe is divided into competing schools of thought; one, which presumes that the inexperienced ...
Paul Auster's City of Glass: The graphic novel

Coughlan, David (John Hopkins University Press, 2006)

In adapting Paul Auster s postmodern detective story City of Glass as a graphic novel, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli succeeded in producing a visual translation of an often non-visual text. Focussing on Auster ...
Peer observation: reflecting on a mirror of your teaching

Schweppe, Jennifer; Eaton, Sinead (Taylor and Francis: Routledge, 2007)

This article recounts our experience of peer observation and reflects on the positive and negative aspects of that exercise. Our experience is then compared to that of other scholars in the field of teaching law and some ...
Peer-tutoring in academic writing: the infectious nature of engagement

O'Sullivan, Íde; Cleary, Lawrence (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, 2014)

Students often struggle with writing as they are unaware of the process of writing and of strategies and skills to help them write well. They often focus on the product of writing rather than engaging with the process of ...
The perception of standard Irish as a prestige target variety

Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg; Ó Murchadha, Noel (Novus, 2011)

This contribution describes the current state and status of Official Standard Irish, Caighdeán Oifigiúil na Gaeilge, the standard language variety of the first of the two official languages of Ireland. The other official ...
Perceptions of music therapy for older people among healthcare professionals

Khan, Waqas Ullah; Mohamad Onn Yap, Irin Arina; O'Neill, Desmond; Moss, Hilary (BMJ Publishing Group, 2015)

Purpose of study To investigate the perceptions of healthcare providers on music therapy and their recommendations on wider adoption in a hospital setting. Design and methods A qualitative exploratory study employing ...
Performative, arts-based, or arts-informed? Reflections on the development of arts-based research in music therapy

Ledger, Alison Jane; McCaffrey, Tríona Mary (Oxford University Press published on behalf of American Music Therapy Association, 2015)

Arts-based research (ABR) has emerged in music therapy in diverse ways employing a range of interpretive paradigms and artistic media. It is notable that no consensus exists as to when and where the arts are included in ...
A perpetual state of emergency: subverting the rule of law in Ireland

Kilcommins, Shane; Vaughan, Barry (University of Wales, Department of Law, 2004)

It is not difficult to find, in Ireland, traces of what David Garland would call the "crime complex". Such phenomena include the politicisation of law and order, increases in maximum sentences, prison expansionism, the ...
An phleanáil teanga agus an beartas teanga: coincheapa agus feidhm

Ó hIfearnáin, Tadhg (Cois Life, 2012)

Pléitear stair na pleanála teanga mar dhisciplín acadúil agus mar ghníomh feidhmiúil sa chaibidil seo. Taispeántar go bhfuil an beartas teanga, ar paraidím measartha nua í, ag glacadh áit na pleanála teanga sa dioscúrsa ...
Piper's Schottische - Scottish social dance choreography

Melin, Mats H. (2014)

Piper's Schottische was devised in 2014 by Mats Melin and is based on the aesthetic dance style of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Description available at https://limerick.academia.edu/MatsMelin/Choreographies . The ...
Plateaux in pronunciation: the case of French learners of English as a foreign language

Farr, Fiona (IRAAL: Irish Association for Applied Linguistics, 2004)

Within the field of second language acquisition the question of cessation of learning short of the target language norms, particularly among adult populations, has been widely discussed since the term FOSSILIZATION was ...
A poem on the mutilation of Brian Óg Ó Néill (d. 1449)

Ó Riain, Gordon (National University of Ireland, 2010)

The subject of the poem edited here, Brian Óg Ó Néill, was a son of Brian (d. 1401 /2) and grandson of Éinrí Aimhréidh (d. 1392).' The branch of the Í Néill to which he belonged was antagonistic to the reigning Ó Neill, ...
The poet as engineer of truth: Pierre Jean Jouve

Kelly, Michael G. (pierrejeanjouve.org, 2008)

Entering into language, according to models of various provenance and vintage, is an entry into the world of disunity, of distance, of distress. Yahweh invented the curse of Babel to punish man’s pride – the bar of mutual ...
Polish teenagers integration into Irish secondary schools: language, culture, and support systems

Farr, Fiona; Baumgart, Joanna (Peter Lang, 2011)

Social demographics in Ireland have changed dramatically over the last thirty years: from joining the European Union in 1973, through the 1980s recession, to the economic boom of the Celtic Tiger in the mid-1990s, and ...
The political act of developing provision for writing in the Irish higher education context

Cleary, Lawrence; O'Sullivan, Íde (The WAC Clearinghouse and Parlor Press, 2015)

In 2007, when the authors of this chapter were being selected to get Ireland’s first writing centre up and running, concerns about postgraduate writing for publication coincided with national and institutional drives to ...
Political attention in the Council of the European Union: a new dataset of working party meetings, 1995 2014

Häge, Frank M (SAGE Publications, 2016)

Little firm knowledge exists about the allocation of the Council's political attention across policy areas and over time. This article presents a new dataset of the date, duration, and policy coding of ...
Political conflict in Bismarck’s Germany: an analysis of parliamentary voting, 1867-1890

Häge, Frank M (SAGE Publications, 2017)

Imperial Germany is a prominent historical case in the study of Western Europe’s political development. This paper investigates the number and content of political conflict dimensions from the foundation of the modern ...

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