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, ...
The intention of this study has been to engage directly with several major novels that appeared in the wake of the fall of the Twin Towers. Although it is concerned with the trauma of the 9/11 events, its main interest is ...
Despite a lineage stretching back as far as the 1940s, it is only in recent years that Young Adult (YA) fiction has begun to shed its reputation as a niche category largely deemed unworthy of study. The current boom in ...
After the release of the film Superman Returns (2006), it was suggested
that " It was inevitable .. . that after 9/11 America's greatest superhero would
come back to protect the threatened city of Metropolis" (French ...
Massive Online Open Courses (MOOC) are still in their infancy on the surface they look like the necessary
silver bullet to provide alternate pathways to education. However, when completion rates and retention
figures ...
The position of Irish on the airwaves now and through recent history has always been closely linked to the strength of the language in society, its position in public opinion and national language policy and the place of ...
This paper describes the complex and sometimes ambiguous attitudes of Gaeltacht Irish speakers towards the intergenerational transmission of Irish. It focuses on first language speaker data that was gathered as part of a ...
This research study developed curricular specific open educational resources for the teaching of poetry at Junior Cycle in Irish post-primary schools. It aimed to capture the collaborative design and development process ...
Dundon Arthur, Aisling(University of Limerick, 2014)
The purpose of this study is to provide an insight into the behaviours and attitudes of academics regarding the diffusion of digital learning resources within Irish Universities. Rogers’ Innovation Diffusion Theory (1995) ...
The people of Ireland have a complex relationship with the Irish language. Until the middle of the nineteenth century Irish was widely spoken throughout the country, but even before the watershed of the Great Famine in the ...