• Exploring the effectiveness and potential benefit of music therapy with adolescents who experience developmental stammering: a mixed methods study 

  O'Donoghue, Jessica Margaret (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Adolescence is a developmental stage characterised by significant growth in the areas of emotional, physical, social, and cognitive development, which have a significant influence on individual outcomes later in adulthood. ...
• Investigating the impact of neurologic music therapy on the spatiotemporal gait parameters and mood for adults and children who have an acquired brain injury 

  Cassidy, Shane (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Despite the body of research that demonstrates the effects of Neurologic Music Therapy (NMT) sensorimotor techniques for adults with neurological conditions, little is known about their impact on both adults and children ...
• Establishing the Clan Na Gael perspective: 1867-1889 

  Miller, Patrick Shawn (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Clan na Gael, the organization which was the primary source of logistical, operational, moral and financial support in Ireland’s struggle for independence has no popular or academic work dedicated to its perspective. ...
• Investigating L2 motivation self-system theory for learning English as a foreign language among Saudi cadets 

  Alanazi, Hazaa Dhaher (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Second language acquisition remains an important issue for students across the globe. Equally, motivation for second language learning remains an essential requirement in acquiring a target language. According to Dörnyei ...
• Reader engagement in English, French and Spanish economics research articles: Contrasting questions in a comparable corpus of academic writing 

  Curry, Niall (University of Limerick, 2020)

  The aim of this thesis is to identify correspondences in questions used to engage readers in English, French, and Spanish economics research articles. Contrastive approaches to academic discourse occupy a small but growing ...
• Irish Northern Aid and the conflict in the North of Ireland,1970-86 

  Collins, Robert (University of Limerick, 2020)

  This thesis assesses the impact of Irish Northern Aid (I.N.A.) in promoting support in the United States of America for the Republican Movement in the period 1970-86. I.N.A. continued the controversial tradition of ...
• The constitutional feasibility of codifying Sharia discretion in relation to punishments in Saudi Arabia 

  Balto, Nada Salahaldeen (University of Limerick, 2020)

  This study intends to assess the discretionary powers and their functioning and effect within the context of the Saudi legal system; assess the current system’s credibility as a result of this practice; and lastly, attempt ...
• The impact of silent story on teaching grammar in a foreign language environment 

  Almohanna, Amal (University of Limerick, 2020)

  Today, more than ever, technology use within educational settings is the main focus of attention of all nations. It has certainly changed the way we live. It has impacted numerous aspects of life and redefined living. ...
• Without enemies, without friends. Morality policies, the Roman Catholic Church, and Ireland’s ‘secular’ party system 

  Green-Pedersen, Christoffer; Little, Conor (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  The ‘two worlds of morality politics’ framework suggests that the historical structure of the party system has a major influence on the politics of morality issues. This study uses the case of Ireland to examine that ...
• Allocating political attention in the EU’s foreign and security policy: The effect of supranational agenda-setters 

  Häge, Frank M. (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  Supranational bureaucracies are often promoted as a solution to collective action problems. In the European Union context, investing the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (HR) with new agenda-setting ...
• Top-down or bottom-up? The selection of shadow rapporteurs in the European Parliament 

  Häge, Frank M.; Ringe, Nils (SAGE Publications, 2020)

  Shadow rapporteurs play an important role in developing the European Parliament’s collective policy positions and in defending them in inter-institutional negotiations. This study sheds light on the ‘how’ and ‘why’ of ...
• It's gems like this that make me wish I hadn't left Ireland: humorous representations of Irish English and their role in diasporic identities 

  Vaughan, Elaine; Moriarty, Máiréad (Walter de Gruyter, 2020)

  In this chapter, we discuss the role of humorous texts in bringing to our attention aspects of perceived identities that have resonance at local, regional and national levels in Ireland, and beyond. In doing so, we assert ...
• Temporality and the carer’s experience in the narrative ecology of illness:Susan Sontag’s dying in photography and prose 

  Liatsos, Yianna (MDPI, 2020)

  This paper joins a discussion about the representational dissonance and commemorative ethics of two self-referential works that engage with Susan Sontag’s2004 death from Myelodysplastic Syndrome: Annie Leibovitz’s A ...
• Mapping an agenda for gender equality in the academy 

  O'Connor, Pat; Harford, Judith; Fitzgerald, Tanya (Taylor and Francis, 2020)

  Higher educational organisations across the EU, and indeed globally, remain male-dominated. The fact that men occupy 86 per cent of all positions of Rector/ President/Vice Chancellor and 76 per cent of all full professorial ...
• Changing the gender profile of the professoriate: An Irish case study 

  O'Connor, Pat (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017)

  This chapter analyses the success of a new university in increasing the proportion of women professors from zero in 1997 to 34% in 2012, considerably above the average for Irish (21%) and European Union (21%) universities. ...
• A standard academic career? 

  O'Connor, Pat (Palgrave MacMillan, 2013)

  I graduated with a first class honours degree at 19 years, but more than 25 years later, I was as far away as ever from my naïve early career dream of a Professorship. I had a PhD, a research track record, varied teaching ...
• The post-primary school experiences of transgender and gender diverse youth in Ireland 

  McBride, Ruari-Santiago; Neary, Aoife; Gray, Breda; Lacey, Vanessa (University of Limerick, 2020)

  This report details the key findings from a research project that explored the post-primary school experiences of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) youth in Ireland. The study was co-funded by the Irish Research Council ...
• “My Mother”: Karen Gershon’s mother and daughters in her poems 

  Barmettler, Anita (UCLPress, 2020)

  Karen Gershon was an English author and poet who was fifteen years old when she came to England on a Kinder transport. She wrote fiction, nonfiction, and poetry about her Kind experience. This article focuses on the ...
• French horns playing at every meal: musical activity at Carton, 1747-1895' 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (UCD Press, 2014)

  no abstract available
• Review: Marjorie Fitzpatrick, Music and power in eighteenth-century court society: Handel's Messiah and Protestant Ascendancy (Lewiston, New York, and Lampeter, Wales: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2016) 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2016)

  no abstract available

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