• Deepening participation, deepening local democracy? The state of local participatory governance in Ireland 

  Finn, Cian (University of Limerick, 2017)

  In response to a decline in traditional forms of political participation and growing dissatisfaction with and distrust of democratic and public institutions, public authorities have engaged or have been required to engage ...
• Idé-eolaíocht agus Daonteangeolaíocht na Gaeilge: aird ar éagsúlacht teanga na Gaeilge 

  Ó Murchadha, Noel (University of Limerick, 2012)

  Bíodh is go bhfuil aitheantas follasach ag urlabhra thraidisiúnta na Gaeltachta mar mhúnla teanga don Ghaeilge ón uair a bunaíodh Conradh na Gaeilge i leith, is beag iniúchadh a deineadh ó shin ar inghlacthacht an mhúnla ...
• Maypole dancing and other body movements in a neo-pagan Bealtaine ritual in Ireland 

  Camillo, Ana Paula (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Maypole Dancing and Other Body Movements in a Neo-Pagan Bealtaine Ritual in Ireland This thesis examines the role of dance and body movements within a specific Pagan ritual in present day Ireland, namely Bealtaine. The ...
• Institutional and social teaching, learning and performing of Irish traditional music in Ennis, County Clare 1961-1980 

  Cotter, Geraldine (University of Limerick, 2013)

  Ennis, County Clare in the west of Ireland, is now considered to be one of the principal strongholds of traditional Irish music practice in the world. During the 1970s, traditional music practice became a ‘living tradition’, ...
• The changing nature of police interviewing in Ireland 

  Sweeney, Kevin (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This thesis examines the role of investigative interviewing in the Irish criminal justice system. Investigative interviewing covers all aspects of speaking to persons, in the course of a criminal investigation, to obtain ...
• “Free healthcare, free die”:the efficacy of social accountability interventions in the health sector in Sierra Leone 

  Pieterse, Pieternella M (Univeristy of Limerick, 2016)

  Since the beginning of the 21st century, aid donors, NGOs and development research institutions have turned their focus to the question of how the quality of basic public service delivery in developing countries can be ...
• Remembering the Island: insularity and memory in the contemporary Mauritian novel in French 

  O'Flaherty, Ailbhe (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Since 1979 there has been a marked increase in literary production from Mauritius, primarily in French, and Mauritian authors have been gaining in popularity amongst a French-speaking readership. Yet, within the context ...
• An opportunity lost: the entrenchment of Sinhalese nationalism in post-war Sri Lanka 

  Gaul, Anne (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This research studies the trajectory of Sinhalese nationalism during the presidency of Mahinda Rajapaksa from 2005 to 2015. The role of nationalism in the protracted conflict between Sinhalese and Tamils is well understood, ...
• The evolution of Irish peacekeeping 1978-2016 

  Colclough, Eamonn (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This thesis is concerned with how Irish peacekeeping policy and practice has evolved in response to the changing nature of international peacekeeping. It asks specific questions about how changes in international ...
• The Anglo - Irish truce: an analysis of its immediate military impact, 8 - 11 July 1921 

  Ó Ruairc, Pádraig Óg (University of Limerick, 2014)

  This thesis is a study of the dynamics of the Anglo-Irish Truce of 11 July 1921 which brought a formal conclusion to the Irish War of Independence. Although this work explores the origins, character and significance of ...
• The representations of poverty and nomadism in Irish and British art, 1760 – 1875 

  Brazil, Julie (University of Limerick, 2012)

  This dissertation examines the representation of Irish poverty and nomadism in Irish and British art during the period 1760 to 1875. It assesses how a diverse range of Irish and British artists’ visually interpreted Irish ...
• Irish financial regulatory enforcement: reforming the criminal law and administrative sanction interplay strategy 

  Elder, Shaun (University of Limerick, 2014)

  The empirical genesis for this novel inter-disciplinary dissertation was the devastating global financial crisis. A separate and simultaneous Irish crisis was located in the banking sector. The financial market domain, ...
• Processes of transmission in Irish traditional music: approaching a virtual orality 

  Ward, Francis (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This thesis charts the changing transmission processes in Irish traditional music through the medium of the Internet, and documents the emergence of a virtual orality within this arena of transmission. It accomplishes ...
• Generating states: exploring the kinaesthetic and energetic relationship between the moving body-mind and environment, through the lens of a dancer, a choreographer and a performer 

  Vaughan, Mairéad (University of Limerick, 2016)

  My dance practice research examines and reflects on what I experience as a deep symbiotic relationship between the body-mind and environment, through the creation of two original choreographic works. This mixed-mode ...
• The neoliberalisation of cultural production: an ethnography of professional Irish traditional music 

  O'Brien Bernini, Leah Marie (University of Limerick, 2016)

  Through the theoretical lenses of agency, autonomy, resistance, and resilience, this ethnographic study reveals how professional musicians and cultural workers experience the neoliberalisation of cultural production in ...
• Constructing community: the symbols of social power in competitive clogging in the Intermountain West of the United States 

  Larsen, Gary J (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This study, one of the few academic analyses of the socio-cultural aspects of contemporary competitive clogging, briefly summarises the history of group clogging from its rural beginnings in the Southeastern Appalachian ...
• Exploring the development of Irish pre-service science teachers’ scientific inquiry orientations using a pedagogical content knowledge lens within a targeted learning community 

  Lehane, Louise (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This current study reports on the findings from a two year longitudinal exploratory case study. A qualitative dominant mixed methods approach was used to establish the orientations of a cohort of Irish pre-service teachers ...
• Reconciling Ireland’s bail laws with traditional Irish constitutional values 

  Doran, Kate (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Bail is a device which provides for the pre-trial release of a criminal defendant after security has been taken for the defendant’s future appearance at trial. Ireland has traditionally adopted a liberal approach to bail. ...
• Human rights and conflict in Northern Ireland 

  Grech, Omar (University of Limerick, 2016)

  This study seeks to answer two related research questions: (i) the extent to which, and ways in which, human rights influenced the Northern Ireland conflict in its various phases (pre-conflict, during conflict and ...
• The Irelands that we dreamed of: Irish science fiction from the 1850s to the present 

  Fennell, Jack (University of Limerick, 2013)

  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 ...

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