• The Ivory tower and the commons: exploring the institutionalisation of Irish traditional music in Irish higher education (discourse, pedagogy and practice) 

  Talty, Jack (Univeristy of Limerick, 2019)

  This dissertation explores the institutionalisation of Irish traditional music pedagogy in Irish higher education. In particular, this research examines how Irish traditional music is located in academic institutions, ...
• An exploration of L2 motivation and identity in the Japanese high school context 

  McCarthy, Andrew (University of Limerick, 2019)

  English education in Japan has been undergoing a transformation, especially in the last decade, in order to improve on the statically low levels of communicative ability in English among Japanese high school graduates, ...
• The culture of control and transformation in An Garda Síochána 

  Fenney, William D. (University of Limerick, 2019)

  In 2001 David Garland published his work on what he called “The Culture of Crime Control” relating to the systems of criminal justice in the U.K. and U.S.A. He argues that criminal justice in these large jurisdictions has, ...
• An examination of how the methods employed by the Criminal Assets Bureau move Ireland in a new direction of crime control 

  Ryan, Patrick Joseph (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This work examines how the concept and operational outcomes achieved by the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB) reflect a new model of crime control that has emerged and developed to a stage where it is a significant contributor ...
• A case study to compare collaborative vs. individual essay writing in Saudi male EFL learners 

  Alammar, Mansour (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This research is set in the Saudi Arabian third level context and investigates the impact on English language (L2) academic essay writing of writing collaboratively compared to writing individually. In the field of Applied ...
• A vulnerability theory of exploitation 

  Amin, Franz (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This thesis introduces and defends a vulnerability theory of exploitation and uses that theory to explain what is exploitative about international transactions such as commercial gestational surrogacy and clinical trials. ...
• Conceding sovereignty: negotiating Africa’s security architecture 

  Hogan, John J. (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This thesis assesses the ability of prominent international relations theories to explain the ceding of governmental authority to an international institution in a region where state sovereignty had traditionally been ...
• The transracial mother/child dyad and the politics of citizenship in Ireland 

  O'Malley, Patti (University of Limerick, 2019)

  During the last two decades, Ireland has witnessed extensive migratory change which has dramatically impacted the overall profile of the Irish population. In particular, the arrival of immigrants of a non-white phenotype ...
• The Irish tobacco business 1779-1935 

  Whitney, Seán (University of Limerick, 2019)

  This thesis chronicles the manufacture, retailing and consumption of tobacco in Ireland. Its purpose is to demonstrate that tobacco played an important part in the economic and social life of the country. The tobacco ...
• Migration nation: barriers to integration for asylum-seekers in Ireland 

  Dillon, Niamh (SAHkartelll, 2018)

  Issues relating to the welfare of asylum-seekers are relatively recent in the Irish context. This is largely due to the historically low numbers of people seeking refuge in Ireland for a variety of geographical and ...
• Persevering post-PhD: contemporary issues for early career academics 

  Karol Mullaney-DIgnam; Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Royal Irish Academy, 2014, 2014)

  The rising levels of educational attainment in the Republic of Ireland are highlighted by the 2011 Census of Population reports published by the Central Statistics Office in 2012. Configured data contained in the penultimate ...
• The making of “a product to be proud of”: an ethnographic examination of the role of the physical curriculum in the social construction of elite bodies and the social stratification of the elite educted student 

  Kennedy, Margaret (Univesity of Limerick, 2014)

  This thesis contributes to our understanding of the social reproduction of human bodies. Where in looking beyond the body’s role as “a mere input mechanism for informations that the brain then makes sense of” this thesis ...
• "What do we mean by Irish music? The politics of state-sponsored music publication in independent Ireland 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Hollitzer Verlag, 2018)

  This essay considers the politics of music publication by the Irish state in the early decades of independence alongside the prescription of 'Irishness' in education, collection and composition. It surveys the roles ...
• What was St Patrick's Day like in 1918? 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (RTE Brainstorm, 2018)

  1918 was a seminal year in Irish, European and global history. St Patrick’s Day fell on a Sunday but celebrations for the fourth national holiday since the outbreak of the First World War were muted by the world-wide ...
• Useless and extravagant? The consumption of music in the Irish country house 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Historic England, 2016)

  Despite being overlooked in much of the historiography of the European country house, music was a key facet of social and cultural life among regional landowning elites. In the medieval period it was an agent of ...
• 'Irish country house music collections: Birr Castle, Co. Offaly' 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2012)
• Review: Helen Berry, The castrato and his wife (Oxford, 2011) 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (Cumann Eire san Ochtu Cead Deag,Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society, 2012)

  no abstract available
• The FitzGeralds in Ireland 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2014)

  Sole contributor, The FitzGeralds in Ireland, KFM (local radio) history feature, aired live May 2014. Podcast online to mark the publication of Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House, ...
• Karol Mullaney-Dignam “Larkin' about" 

  Mullaney-Dignam, Karol (2013)

  no abstract available
• Ireland and our LGBT Community 

  Haynes, Amanda; Schweppe, Jennifer (callitout.ie, 2019)

  Basic figures: – A large majority of respondents agreed or strongly agreed that gay men and lesbians (88%), bisexual people (87%) and transgender people (85%) “should be free to live their own life as they wish”. – ...

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