• 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 ...
• Caroline Wyndham-Quin, countess of Dunraven (1790-1870): an analysis of her discursive and material legacy 

  Clarke, Odette (University of Limerick, 2010)

  Caroline Wyndham was born on 24 May 1790 into the British gentry. The Wyndhams of Dunraven, whilst not being titled, were members of the land-owning and governing class in Glamorganshire, South Wales. In 1810 Caroline ...
• Relations between the European Union and China: viewed through a human rights lens 

  Mealy, Sharon (University of Limerick, 2002)

  The European Union's policy in relation to China was outlined in the Commission document A Long Term Policy for Europe China Relations published in 1995. These goals related to • engaging China further on the world ...
• The special relationship between Eamon de Valera & Archbishop Daniel Mannix, 1913-1963 

  Mannix, Patrick (University of Limerick, 2011)

  This dissertation is an examination and evaluation from a historical perspective of the relationship that was established and forged between the former taoiseach and President of Ireland, Eamon de Valera and the former ...
• The localisation of the PARSNIP model and authentic materials for Libyan third level EFL contexts 

  Belaid, Abdulhakim Mohamed Ali (University of Limerick, 2015)

  The chief aims of this thesis are (a) to investigate EFL learner and teacher attitudes, reactions, familiarity and use of authentic materials in a third level context and, (b) to examine the potentials of repurposing and ...
• Sean-nós singing and Oireachtas na Gaeilge: identity, romantic nationalism, and the agency of the Gaeltacht community nexus 

  Costello, Éamonn Seosamh (University of Limerick, 2015)

  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 ...
• The ethics of normative power 

  Beiniks, Stacia (University of Limerick, 2015)

  The question addressed by this research is; how can the concept of normative power be morally evaluated? In general terms, normative power is thought to be an ability or disposition, where A has normative power when it is ...
• What has been the political effect of regional concentration of newspaper ownership and production in Nigeria since 1999?: has this concentration affected the contributions Nigerian newspapers make to democracy? 

  Jatula, Babatunde Victor (University of Limerick, 2015)

  My research starts from the premise that the contemporary role of Nigeria’s regionally concentrated newspapers hubs in the current political dispensation, particularly after the return to civil rule in 1999, and their ...
• Increasing the volume on post-9/11 literature 

  King-Sheehan, Clair (University of Limerick, 2015)

  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 ...
• An investigation of ICT use for Italian and Irish language learning in a secondary level school environment: new perspectives on the digital natives/digital immigrants claim 

  Benini, Silivia (University of Limerick, 2015)

  This study investigates the use of technology for Irish and Italian language learning in two secondary schools of the Republic of Ireland. The targeted schools are characterized by different technological orientations: ...
• The removal of the consideration requirement, and the consequent clarification on duress, for verbal modifications to Irish construction contracts 

  Mooney, Conor Francis Joseph (University of Limerick, 2015)

  This thesis studies the consideration requirement for verbally-made contract variations in Irish construction contracts, and proposes how this specific circumstance can be best served by the law of contract. Construction ...
• Economic complexity, regime transition and sectoral forces: the impact of trade unions on democratization in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia 

  McCorley, Ciara (University of Limerick, 2015)

  This thesis interrogates uncertainty in transitional politics in South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. It questions why some countries transition to democracy and some stagnate or revert to authoritarianism. To address the ...

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