• Degrading bodies in pandemic times: politicizing cruelty during the COVID-19 and obesity crises 

  Monaghan, Lee F. (SAGE, 2021)

  Mass communications frame fatness and COVID-19 as a dual threat. This discourse furthers well-established tendencies to degrade bodies labelled overweight or obese, positioning them as deficient and requiring correction. ...
• Margaret McNair Stokes (1832–1900): negotiating cultural values within nineteenth-century Irish antiquarian discourse 

  NicGhabhann, Niamh; Thomas, Colleen M. (Historical Association & John Wiley & Sons, 2021)

  In her own time, Margaret McNair Stokes (1832-1900) was an esteemed antiquarian and artist. Her work on early Christian architecture and monumental sculpture in Ireland was pioneering and foundational and continues to ...
• Progress, but at the expense of male power? Institutional resistance to gender equality in an Irish university 

  Hodgins, Margaret; O'Connor, Pat (Frontiers Media, 2021)

  Gender equality is a whole-organization endeavor. Building on Agócs (Journal of Business Ethics, 1997, 16 (9), 917–931) concept of institutionalized resistance this article undertakes a feminist critique of policy and ...
• An investigation into the effects of music psychosocial interventions on the well-being of people living with dementia and their family carers 

  Lee, Sophie Elizabeth (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Dementia can negatively impact the well-being of people living with dementia and their family carers. Existing research suggests that music interventions may be effective, safe alternatives to pharmacological interventions ...
• Solidarity matters: prototypicality and minority and majority adherence to national COVID-19 health advice 

  Foran, Aoife-Marie; Roth, Jenny; Jay, Sarah; Griffin, Siobhan M.; Maher, Paul J.; McHugh, Cillian; Bradshaw, Daragh; Ryan, Megan; Quayle, Michael; Muldoon, Orla T. (Ubiquity Press, 2021)

  The effectiveness of measures introduced to minimise the spread of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome CoronaVirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2 or COVID-19) depends on compliance from all members of society. The Irish response to COVID-19 ...
• Big and Learned and Far From Simple: Intellectual Narration in "The Plain People of Ireland" and The Third Policeman 

  Glass, Maggie (Open Library of Humanities, 2021)

  Brian Ó Nualláin is a man of many names and many voices. The narrative power he possesses is exemplified when comparing the ‘Plain People of Ireland’ segments of the Cruiskeen Lawn columns in The Irish Times, penned ...
• Issue congruence between voters and parties: examining the democratic party mandate in Ireland 

  Costello, Rory (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Political parties often employ the rhetoric of electoral mandates, claiming that the people who voted for them endorsed their policies. However, the level of voter-party issue congruence may vary across parties, issues, ...
• Sound tracts, songlines and soft repertoires: Irish music performance and the city of Chicago 

  Dillane, Aileen (University of Chicago, Illinois, 2009)

  In this study, I view Irish (traditional) music as, first and foremost, a local (and ethnic/post ethnic) music in and of the City of Chicago. By placing the ‘City’ at the center of my exploration, and by acknowledging ...
• Some objections to the desire-based objection 

  Shorten, Andrew (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  In his stimulating paper, Bouke de Vries proposes a novel ‘desire-based objection’ to the constitutional recognition of an official religion. In developing this objection, De Vries’s stated target is a particular—and still ...
• Assessing the co-occurrence of professional roles in the news: A comparative study in six advanced democracies 

  Humanes, María Luisa; Mellado, Claudia; Mothes, Cornelia; Silke, Henry; Raemy, Patrick; Panagiotou, Nikos (University of Southern California, 2021)

  Occurrence of the interventionist, watchdog, loyal-facilitator, service, civic, and infotainment roles. The results show three main types of role co-occurrence—interventionist-watchdog, watchdog-civic, and interventi ...
• Creativity, autonomy and Dalcroze eurhythmics: An arts practice exploration 

  Daly, Diane K. (SAGE Publications, 2021)

  This paper investigates the impact of Dalcroze Eurhythmics on fostering creativity and autonomy in classical instrumental pedagogy. The research took the form of an arts practice investigation which included devising, ...
• A case study on the impact of a capstone street law teaching project 

  Bracken, Lydia (Routledge, 2021)

  The aim of this paper is to investigate the utility of a small-scale Street Law project as a capstone service-learning course in one Irish university. It begins with a discussion of Street Law as an aspect of clinical ...
• Unearthing the artist: An autoethnographic investigation 

  Daly, Diane K. (Nova Southeastern University, 2021)

  In this paper I address how autoethnography was utilized to research the role and value of arts practice research in Western classical music professional training and practice, by a classically trained professional ...
• Location, location, location: The future of weddings law In Ireland And England 

  O'Sullivan, Kathryn (Routledge Taylor & Francis, 2021)

  Despite its practical importance to upwards of 40,000 people annually, the framework governing weddings law in Ireland has received minimal academic attention or critique. This article seeks to address this gap in the ...
• Beyond knowledge capitalism’s happy labour subject 

  Gray, Breda (SAGE, 2021)

  This article unravels the workings of happiness as integral to knowledge capitalism’s ‘emotionality of rule’ from the perspectives of two cohorts of ‘knowledge workers’: digital creatives and academics. It analyses the ...
• Left to their own devices: an investigation of learner perceptions of smartphones as tools of language learning 

  Mullen, Martin (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Among many student populations smartphone ownership is ubiquitous, and many educators have been quick to incorporate smartphones into their classes and learning programs. There is a wealth of research documenting formal, ...
• The evolving landscape of local governance in Ireland: exploring the potential to create public value 

  Kirby, Carmel (University of Limerick, 2021)

  This research explores the potential to create public value in the various governance mechanisms which have been established in the evolving landscape of local governance in Ireland. Public Value Management (PVM) is a ...
• An examination of evidence admissibility rulings in trials on indictment in Ireland 

  Kennedy, Denis Seán (University of Limerick, 2021)

  Evidence is the lifeblood of a trial in the common law world and the admissibility of evidence in criminal trials is, in particular, an area of immense tension and import. This thesis endeavours to shine a light upon ...
• Looking East and West on advance decision-making in pregnancy: the pregnant advance directive holder in Irish, English and New York state law 

  Finnerty, Aoife Marie (University of Limerick, 2021)

  In Western society, the point in a woman’s life when she routinely ceases having control over her person in a treatment context – if such a point in time arises – is pregnancy. The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) ...
• Yeats's ideal others: the Dantean mask of Yeats's late phase 

  Barry, Caron (University of Limerick, 2021)

  W. B. Yeats was a poet deeply concerned with making and remaking himself through his work. As a part of that mission Yeats tended very often to follow the example of his most beloved precursors. However, Yeats’s ...

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