• Constructing and contesting the echo chamber: a study of print media discourse on the final year of the 1976-1983 dictatorship in Argentina 

  Prendergast, Muireann (University of Limerick, 2018)

  For post-dictatorship countries attempting to come to terms with and understand their past, historical media studies have a particularly important role to play. In identifying discursive strategies, objective and subjective ...
• Life after debt: a critical analysis of the engagement/non-engagement of debtors with the insolvency service of Ireland 

  Roche, Zachariah John Joseph (University of Limerick, 2018)

  The state established the Insolvency Service of Ireland (ISI) in 2013 to respond to an arrears crisis involving almost 150,000 mortgages. The ISI’s strategy has focused upon teaching financial skills to insolvent debtors ...
• Undermining the “Community Method”: the role of the European Council and legislative actors in shaping the response of the EU to the European sovereign debt crisis 

  Moloney, David (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This doctoral thesis describes and explains the bargaining success of the member states and the European Parliament party groups (intra-institutional actors), and the Council of Ministers, the European Commission, the ...
• Mincéirs Siúladh: an ethnographic study of young Travellers’ experiences of racism in an Irish city 

  Joyce, Sindy (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This thesis is an ethnography of how young Travellers experience and negotiate urban space in the city of Galway, Ireland. This research builds upon the understanding that our relationships to space are mediated through ...
• An examination of the community service order in Ireland: recommendations for change 

  Guilfoyle, Eoin (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This thesis explores what a Community Service Order (CSO) is in Ireland and how it operates in practice. It identifies issues and problems with the sanction in its current form and suggests changes that could be made to ...
• Position of the embryo (foetus) in private law: a comparative analysis 

  Duggan, Magdalena (Univesity of Limerick, 2018)

  The concept of ‘foetal rights’ is most frequently associated with the notion of ‘foetal right to life’ and the problem of legality of abortion. Seemingly, such is also the tone of the Irish scholarly debate, where the ...
• “The limits of my language are the limits of my world”: teacher development through dialogic reflection in cross-disciplinary collaborative action research in a second level mathematics classroom in Ireland 

  Baumgart, Joanna (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This research focuses on classroom discourse in a second level multicultural mathematics classroom in Ireland and seeks to bring together new approaches from linguistics and subject specific pedagogy and teacher education ...
• The ‘indivisible’ truth: The public and private writings of Frank Gallagher, 1911-65 

  Jackson, Declan (University of Limerick, 2014)

  Frank Gallagher, as journalist, electioneer, polemicist and diarist, gave public voice to Irish republican thinking and morals at crucial points in the twentieth century. This thesis argues that his work played a role not ...
• Songs between worlds: enchantment and entrapment in the Irish otherworld song tradition 

  McLaughlin, Mary Theresa (University of Limerick, 2018)

  In this thesis I examine the portrayal of the Otherworld in Irish traditional song through the lenses of enchantment and entrapment. I focus on two songs which exemplify this theme from different angles: An Mhaighdean ...
• Teaching English vocabulary via digital games to 3rd level Saudi male students: issues and attitudes 

  Alsayegh, Abdulaziz Abdullah (University of Limerick, 2016)

  The integration of technology into educational contexts typically presents its own challenges. The integration of technology into conservative and culturally-sensitive educational contexts presents its own specific and ...
• Experiencing the digital image in popular cinema: a perspective on the horror and crime genres 

  O'Shea, Noel Gerard (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The discourse surrounding digital technology in popular film has usually focused on computer-generated imagery (CGI), overlooking the method of image-capture involving digital cameras. I argue that the replacement of ...
• Inventing Anais Nin: celebrity authorship and the creation of an icon 

  Jarczok, Anita (University of Limerick, 2011)

  This thesis examines the process of the construction of Anaїs Nin’s public persona (or rather personae) by herself and by the popular media in the United States from 1966 onwards, with a special focus on socio-cultural ...
• Policing 'wayward' youth: law, society and youth criminality in Berlin, 1939-1953 

  Meeres, David (University of Limerick, 2014)

  The thesis is at once a legal, social, and everyday history of youth crime in Germany between 1939 and 1953. Its overarching tenet is that the so-­‐called Zero Hour of 8 May 1945 as a s ...
• Current approaches to separate legal personality of a company in Ireland, the State of Delaware in the United States of America and Nigeria 

  Jombo, Franco (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This my Postgraduate LL.M studies by research focusing on the concept ‘Separate Legal Personality’ of a company’. It is a Company Law topic. The Thesis explores and analyses the creation of ‘Separate Legal Personality’ of ...
• Young composers in Irish traditional music c. 2004-2016: compositions, process and tradition 

  Ó Meachair, Tadhg Donncha Tomás (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This dissertation is an examination of the compositional styles and imperatives of young composers locating within the Irish music tradition from the years c.2004 – 2016. Over the course of this paper, four case studies ...
• Transfer of Master of Public Information Administration [MPA] program and implementation in China 

  Di, Hu (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Current comparative studies exploring Chinese administrative reforms within the broader international context of administration tend to compare Chinese administrative reforms with industrial democracies. In other words, ...
• The risks posed by mixed DNA evidence to the presumption of innocence in Ireland 

  Stevenson, Michelle-Thérèse (University of Limerick, 2018)

  DNA is powerful evidence that is popularly celebrated as a forensic “gold standard.”1 Underneath the hyperbole, however, there is a darker side to this impressive biotechnology. Although DNA has a well-earned reputation ...
• Political dynasties and personal political machines 

  Scully, Diarmuid (University of Limerick, 2018)

  This thesis proposes an electoral system-based explanation for the observable variations in the rate of family following in the parliaments of mature, developed, democratic states. Electoral systems that foster intra-party ...
• Discretion in the decision-making practices of public servants: a case study of the habitual residence condition in Ireland 

  Ryan, Majka Monika (University of Limerick, 2017)

  This interpretive study explores how decision-makers in welfare institutions deploy discretion. This thesis is based on a case study of decision-making on the Habitual Residence Condition (HRC). Citing the need to safeguard ...
• Social media as an English language learning tool among foreign language learners in Libya: a study of opportunities and challenges 

  Altaleb, Sana Bashir Hussein (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Social media have numerous positive benefits for students‘ learning (Hwang, Kessler, & Francesco, 2004). Besides their easy access, social media platforms enable students to improve communications and language skills, ...

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