• Spectacular language and creative marketing in a Singapore tailor shop 

  Hult, Francis M.; Kelly-Holmes, Helen (Taylor and Francis Ltd, 2019)

  A tailor shop located in Singapore's Chinatown is explored as a case of creative linguistic marketing practice, examining how such practice can be understood in relation to the interaction of local and global forces on the ...
• The applications of mainstream music technology to facilitate access to creative musical experiences for people with disabilities 

  Noone, Jason Francis (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This study investigated applications of mainstream music technology for creative music making by people with disabilities within a person centred music therapy context. The research was undertaken with service users from ...
• Mobility, connectivity and non-resident citizenship: migrant social media campaigns in the Irish Marriage Equality referendum 

  Gray, Breda (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  The proliferation of migrant social media campaigns calling for a ‘Yes’ vote in the Irish Marriage Equality referendum (May 2015) raises new questions about the conventions of political participation and non-resident ...
• ‘Leaving Dublin’: Photographic portrayals of post-Celtic Tiger emigration – a sociological analysis 

  Gray, Breda (SAGE Publications, 2018)

  .This article analyses David Monahan’s photographic portrait series of over 120 people before emigrating from post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, entitled ‘Leaving Dublin’. As a digital series that circulates across multiple media ...
• Constructing and contesting the echo chamber: a study of print media discourse on the final year of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina 

  Prendergast, Muireann (University of Limerick, 2018)

  For post-dictatorship countries attempting to come to terms with and understand their past, historical media studies have a particularly important role to play. In identifying discursive strategies, objective and subjective ...
• Life after debt: a critical analysis of the engagement/non-engagement of debtors with the insolvency service of Ireland 

  Roche, Zachariah John Joseph (University of Limerick, 2018)

  The state established the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) in 2013 to respond to an arrears crisis involving almost 150,000 mortgages. The ISI’s strategy has focused upon teaching financial skills to insolvent debtors ...
• Undermining the “Community Method”: the role of the European Council and legislative actors in shaping the response of the EU to the European sovereign debt crisis 

  Moloney, David (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This doctoral thesis describes and explains the bargaining success of the member states and the European Parliament party groups (intra-institutional actors), and the Council of Ministers, the European Commission, the ...
• Mincéirs Siúladh: an ethnographic study of young Travellers’ experiences of racism in an Irish city 

  Joyce, Sindy (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This thesis is an ethnography of how young Travellers experience and negotiate urban space in the city of Galway, Ireland. This research builds upon the understanding that our relationships to space are mediated through ...
• An examination of the community service order in Ireland: recommendations for change 

  Guilfoyle, Eoin (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This thesis explores what a Community Service Order (CSO) is in Ireland and how it operates in practice. It identifies issues and problems with the sanction in its current form and suggests changes that could be made to ...
• Position of the embryo (foetus) in private law: a comparative analysis 

  Duggan, Magdalena (Univesity of Limerick, 2018)

  The concept of ‘foetal rights’ is most frequently associated with the notion of ‘foetal right to life’ and the problem of legality of abortion. Seemingly, such is also the tone of the Irish scholarly debate, where the ...
• “The limits of my language are the limits of my world”: teacher development through dialogic reflection in cross-disciplinary collaborative action research in a second level mathematics classroom in Ireland 

  Baumgart, Joanna (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This research focuses on classroom discourse in a second level multicultural mathematics classroom in Ireland and seeks to bring together new approaches from linguistics and subject specific pedagogy and teacher education ...
• The ‘indivisible’ truth: The public and private writings of Frank Gallagher, 1911-65 

  Jackson, Declan (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Frank Gallagher, as journalist, electioneer, polemicist and diarist, gave public voice to Irish republican thinking and morals at crucial points in the twentieth century. This thesis argues that his work played a role not ...
• Further reflections on being a utopian in these times 

  Moylan, Tom (2018)

  In this essay (a revision of my contribution at the closing session of the Imaginaries of the Future Leverhulme Network held in London in September 2017), I offer a situated commentary (by ‘me’) on ‘ourselves’ (and I know ...
• The victim in law - the emergence of a new juridical subject in the crime conflict 

  Kilcommins, Shane (2018)

  There has been growing recognition of the interests and needs of victims in the law arena, where previous emphasis had been predominantly on the rights of the accused and the offender.1 The result, in Ireland and in other ...
• Defining corporate, white collar and regulatory crime: offences, defences and procedure 

  Kilcommins, Shane; Spain, Eimear (Clarus Press, 2019)

  White-collar crime has become an area of significant interest for academics, practitioners, policy makers, and those with an interest in corporate affairs. However, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of ...
• Gendered policing and policing gender: The Trans Community and An Garda Síochána 

  Schweppe, Jennifer; Haynes, Amanda (2019)

  The relationship between the police service and the communities it serves is vital to an open and functioning democracy. While Ireland’s police force, An Garda Síochána, enjoy very high levels of public confidence overall, ...
• Music therapy and recovery in mental health: seeking a way forward. 

  McCaffrey, Tríona Mary; Carr, Catherine; Solli, Hans Petter; Hense, Cherry (Bergen Open Access Publishing, 2018)

  As recovery is a prevailing vision for modern mental health services internationally, it is timely to consider its current state of play in relation to music therapy practice. This paper offers a theoretical perspective ...
• The ideological space in Irish politics: comparing voters and parties 

  Costello, Rory (2017)

  Drawing on an original survey of voters and parties, this article examines the policy space in Irish politics in the context of the 2016 general election. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses show that four broad ...
• A fragment of an early modern tract on grammar and metrics 

  Ó Riain, Gordon (Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2017)

  This contribution presents an edition, with textual notes and translation, of a fragment of a tract which is concerned with the formation of compound words and alliteration. The contents of the text are examined in detail ...
• Four conceptions of linguistic disadvantage 

  Shorten, Andrew (2017)

  Policymakers need a conception of linguistic disadvantage to supply guidance about the relative priority of inequalities with a linguistic dimension and to inform decisions about whether such inequalities require correction ...

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