In adapting Paul Auster s postmodern detective story City of Glass as a graphic novel, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli succeeded in producing a visual translation of an often non-visual text. Focussing on Auster ...

While practice is paramount to achieve fluency and accuracy in a foreign language, Higher Education is understandably limited in the amount of language practice it can offer to its students. The initiative discussed here ...

The importance of pensions as a source of family wealth has attracted increased attention during the first decades of the twenty-first century. In particular, ever-greater focus is now being placed in many jurisdictions ...

                           This study investigated the purpose and effectiveness of giving outpatients receiving dialysis treatment an opportunity to engage in art activities while receiving care. A mixed method study ...

Purpose of study To investigate the perceptions of healthcare providers on music therapy and their recommendations on wider adoption in a hospital setting. Design and methods A qualitative exploratory study employing ...

It is not difficult to find, in Ireland, traces of what David Garland would call the "crime complex". Such phenomena include the politicisation of law and order, increases in maximum sentences, prison expansionism, the ...

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 ...

Drawing on a feminist institutional perspective combined with nego-feminism, this article explores the ways in which women in a mining community in Zimbabwe experience and access power within a patriarchal social structure. ...

A 1984 performance of Sicut Cervus by Palestrina raised in this writer’s mind questions regarding the performance of Renaissance polyphony by non-specialist choirs. The initial questions developed into one which asked ...

.The continuous rise of socio-economic inequality over the past decades with its connected political outcomes such as the Brexit vote in the UK, and the election of Donald Trump are currently a matter of intense debate ...