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(Cardiff University Press, 2020)Historical Discourse’s Truth Matrix was first posited by Michel Foucault to describe the emergence of a discourse of historical events subsequent to the cessation of war and established by the most powerful arbiters of ...
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(Syracuse University Press, 2012)This chapter outlines the attempts the Lady Dudley scheme made in tandem with the Congested Districts Board (CDB) to organize domiciliary medical care and to improve public health and sanitation in the West of Ireland ...
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(Liverpool University Press, 2017)This chapter examines agrarian activism and violence in the south-west of Ireland, one of the country’s most disturbed regions, between 1879 and 1882. These were the years of the land war, the first of three phases of ...
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(University of Limerick, 2014)International best practice dictates that policies impacting people should be evidence-based, and that those most affected are in the best position to explain the needs that effective policies have to meet. The problem ...
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(University of Limerick, 2015)Third-level institutions in western society are educating an increasingly feminised student body, with female students now outnumbering males. Professor Pat O’Connor’s research has highlighted the gap between the ...
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(University of Limerick, 2017)Many of us will become a victim of crime at some point in our lives, yet many victims chose not to report these crimes to the police. Ultimately, a large number of victims in Ireland are not engaging in the criminal justice ...
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(University of Limerick, 2020)Irish dance is amongst Ireland’s most successful cultural exports, with current figures showing over 10,000 qualified Irish dancing teachers operating in thousands of schools in over 30 countries internationally1 . The ...
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(University of Limerick, 2016)To make an informed decision, voters must assess both the policy platforms and the track-record of the political parties and candidates competing for their vote. A lack of objective and accessible information makes ...
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(Springer, 2018)In February 1900, Father John P. Connelly, the Roman Catholic parish priest of Achill Island, County Mayo, wrote to the Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute for Nurses (QNI) in Dublin, pleading for funds to retain the ...
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(Irish Academic Press, 2013)This chapter explores the nature and function of obituaries and death notices in nineteenth-century Irish provincial newspapers. Employing a sample from a database of newspaper entries, it is argued that the use of obituaries ...
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(SAGE Publications, 2019)This article reports on a qualitative study of strategies and competencies used by technical communication and translation students to address challenges inherent in global virtual team collaboration. The study involved ...
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(IEEE Computer Society, 2020)Although technical communication is an active field of work in the United Kingdom, currently no academic programs are offered in this discipline. Interviews with practitioners, a company owner, and members of the board ...
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(IEEE Computer Society, 2019)This study explores discursive blog posts about component content management by technical communication practitioners. It identifies blogs and posts that explore component content management practices over a one-year period ...
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(Oxford University Press, 2020)This article examines the impact of territorial stigma in Limerick, a peripheral Irish city, and whether such stigma can be successfully resisted. It begins by exploring the development of the concept of territorial stigma ...
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(Sciendo, 2020)The Reform and Delivery Office (RDO) in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has developed a series of case studies on citizen engagement, in partnership with researchers and public bodies, as a commitment under ...
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(Manchester University Press, 2018)Many commentators have sounded the death knell for party identification. For example, Dalton claims that we are witnessing a general process of partisan dealignment and that this trend ‘reflects long term and enduring ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2020)When national interests are threatened by an international political crisis, there is often a ‘rally around the flag’ effect among both the public and the political elite, interpreted as a patriotic response to an external ...
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(IEEE Computer Society, 2019)Mainly due to technology developments, the roles of technical communicators are constantly evolving. Therefore, it is important that curricula in technical communication stay up to date with the developments to prepare ...
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(Taylor and Francis, 2020)In this paper, I examine the re-contextualisation of particular versions of solo traditional set dances from the region of North Kerry, Ireland, by teachers and step dancers of competitive step dancing for competition. ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2020)In a poll (ReImagineEdu, 2016) looking at the digital profile of nearly 1,000 learners, it was reported that 78% of students worry about digital technologies distracting them from study. In attempting to contribute to this ...