This document aims to inform evidence-based practice in outcomes for children in care by synthesising and critically analysing Irish and international research literature. In particular, it aims to offer practitioners a ...

This thesis examines the relationship between a style of Irish vernacular song, commonly known as sean-nós, and the Oireachtas na Gaeilge festival, Ireland’s oldest arts festival. The Oireachtas is essentially an Irish ...

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The author was employed to evaluate the potential for music therapy in an elderly rehabilitation and continuing care service. She was required to review current service provision, provide recommendations for a future ...

Strategic planning has become a cornerstone in the management of Irish universities, responding initially to the 1997 Universities Act and more recently to a national and international policy environment. Irish universities ...

This article examines the connections between Thomas Pynchon's V. and the work of W. B. Yeats, arguing that it is not only Yeats as poet, but also Yeats as mage, who interests Pynchon. It shows what part is played in V. ...

This chapter explores how a pop song can become (and remain) a critical site for counter-hegemonic expression, through the creative manipulation of discursive, structural, sonic, and somatic elements. ‘The Slum Mums’, ...

New and emerging technologies have transformed the classroom (Mishra and Koehler, 2006) and continue to do so, and it has been reported that teachers and teacher educators now work in ever evolving environments (Elliott, ...

This paper considers the barriers that people with disabilities in Ireland face in accessing justice through the criminal justice system when they are victims of crime. It draws on qualitative research with key actors ...

In the collegial model the basis for appointment to senior management is nomination by a community of scholars, whereas it is by line management in the managerial one. This article focuses on the basis of appointments in ...