Student teachers and teacher educators, when thinking about the kinds of materials they ideally want to use during their pre-service or in-service programmes, will immediately think of words like: relevant, based on real ...

This research investigates some politeness features used by Irish politicians during Question Time (QT) in the national parliament of Ireland, through the prism of some corpus linguistics tools and an examination of some ...

As a general rule, witnesses in criminal trials are deemed to be fully competent to testify to matters that are within their own knowledge, and the evidence of a lone witness, if believed, is enough to support a finding ...

This thesis presents an interactive system for investigating the emotive content of music. This system takes an empirical, computational approach that involves the subject directly in the process of creating emotional ...

It is clear that Ireland has witnessed evidence of a ‘tooling up’ of the state in the fight against crime over the last two decades. Crime control analyses—often relying upon the use of stark juxtaposition—are very useful ...

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This article critically appraises the success of the Back To Education Allowance (BTEA) in removing barriers to participation in 3rd level education for welfare recipients in Ireland. The paper is based on empirical data ...

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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, ...

The doctrine of adverse possession has generated a lot of controversy over the last 10 years or so. My paper today focuses on only one small aspect of the important questions that have been raised about the doctrine and ...