Ó Riain, Gordon(National Universiy of Ireland, 2010)
The subject of the poem edited here, Brian Óg Ó Néill, was a son of
Brian (d. 1401 /2) and grandson of Éinrí Aimhréidh (d. 1392).' The
branch of the Í Néill to which he belonged was antagonistic to
the reigning Ó Neill, ...
Ó Riain, Gordon(JSTOR on Behalf of Royal Irish Academy, 2011)
The three quatrains edited below form part of a controversy which arose in
the late seventeenth century, as to which family could legitimately lay claim
to the heraldic symbol of the Red Hand.1 The controversy is relatively ...
Ó Riain, Gordon(JSTOR on behalf of Royal Irish Academy, 2013)
A list of a number of the Ulstermen’s exploits forms part of a poem in the
later recension of Cath Maighe Rath which was edited by O’Donovan in
1842 and suggested by Dillon to date from the late-thirteenth or ...
This paper examines how caregivers in a bilingual family discursively link Gaelic to a school context when interacting with Maggie, an eight year-old who is currently enrolled in Gaelic Medium Education on the Isle of Skye, ...
This paper focuses on the significant developments in the area of open education, in particular the role that Open Educational
Repositories (OER) can play in higher education, teaching, learning and scholarship. The ...
Feminism is of itself an educational project.When feminist activists in the early
1970s questioned the status quo, they began to unpick their own socialisation,
read against the grain, challenge hegemonies, and reconstruct ...
The emergence of the second wave of the women’s movement in Ireland tends to
be associated chiefly with campaigns concerning reproductive rights and equality
in employment. Against this backdrop, the ways in which the ...
The area of feminist culture(s), specifically the kinds of cultural production that
emerged during the second-wave women’s movement in Ireland, is one which
remains largely under-researched and under-represented. In ...
Cleary, Yvonne(Society for Technical Communication, 2012)
Purpose: To examine how blogs reflect practitioner views of professionalization topics (such as education, professional societies, and value and status).Method: Content analysis of 10 practitioner blogs, focusing on ...
The self-service nature of today's society means that technical communicators are needed more than ever before since users may find themselves struggling to make sense of online documentation with minimal support from the ...
Research problem: In Ireland, technical communication has developed as an academic and occupational
field since the late 20th century. Research on the field in Ireland is limited. Research questions: (1) To what extent ...
My original contribution to knowledge is a synthesis between ‘mythological’ and
‘historical’ definitions of science fiction, a synthesis which I believe allows for a more
nuanced understanding of postcolonial SF. In this ...
‘Books continue each other’,Virginia Woolf suggests, ‘in spite of our
habit of judging them separately’. Elizabeth Bowen’s final work Eva
Trout (1968) is clearly a case in point in that in order to fully realize ...
Monique Wittig, addressing ideological activism and social change at
the end of the twentieth century, proposes the Trojan Horse as a model
for counter-cultural movements and avant-garde writers: ‘at the time it is
produced, ...
Over the past ten years, a number of major scholarly projects based in Ireland have sought by original research to make visible women’s contribution to culture and society, and have focused critical attention on the ...
IN TANDEM WITH the stirrings of first-wave feminism, the literary work of
"New Woman"l writers came to the fore in the early 1890s. Replacing the
Victorian "angel in the house", these writers depicted desires never ...
O'Toole, Tina(John Hopkins University Press, 2014)
The name of George Egerton (Mary Chavelita Dunne Bright)
(1859–1945) became practically synonymous with decadence
when Elkin Mathews and John Lane’s partnership, the Bodley
Head, published her sexually bold first ...
William Trevor’s short story ‘The Ballroom of Romance’ (1972) has attained iconic status in Irish culture in the forty years since its publication. The title and ambience of the story, evoking memories of dancehall days, ...