• 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 ...
• 'Juggling', 'Guilt' and 'Having it All' social representations and the working mother identity in Ireland 

  Vine, Megan (2017)

  Working mothers are often portrayed as struggling to manage the incompatible demands of family and work. A combination of structural inequalities, gender stereotypes and social representations impact on women’s lives and ...
• 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, ...
• Native and non-native speaker English language teachers in an EFL context: a study of teachers' self-perception, students' attitudes, and institutional regulations in Libya 

  Elkbuli, Ahmed Lotfi Moh (University of Limerick, 2018)

  The main aims of this study are to investigate the attitudes of Libyan students towards Native and Non-native English language teachers in an EFL context, teachers‘ self-perceptions in relation to their teaching abilities, ...
• The impact of blended learning on medical students' engagement and achievement with English language terminology: a case study of teachers’ and students' self-efficacy and attitudes at Jazan University Saudi Arabia 

  Banafi, Norah Hussain (University of Limerick, 2018)

  Over the last decade, blended learning (BL) strategies that focused on the combination of traditional face-to face learning and the incorporation of technology have started to become more popular and captured the attention ...
• Complimenting behaviour in the performance of native speakers of Irish English and Iraqi Arabic: a cross-cultural pragmatics study 

  Al-Hilu, Mazin Jasim (University of Limerick, 2017)

  The present study seeks to identify and contrast the linguistic patterns used by native speakers of Irish English (NSIrE) and native speakers of Iraqi Arabic (NSIA) in producing the speech behaviour of complimenting, with ...
• Missale Vetus:liturgy, palaeography and repertories in the notated missal EXcl 3515 

  Mannion, Anne (University of Limerick, 2012)

  EXcl 3515 is a notated missal located in Exeter Cathedral. To date, it has received very little attention from chant scholars. This neglect is due possibly to the absence of a liturgical Kalendar and evidence of local ...
• A corpus-based lexico-grammatical analysis of the Limerick corpus of Irish English (L-CIE) : some nominal and verbal features 

  Forde, Kieran (University of Limerick, 2005)

  This study proposes to use a corpus-based approach to identify and evaluate some of the discrete features of spoken Southern Irish English. The features to be analysed were chosen on the basis that they were identified ...
• Phrased notation and renaissance polyphony: exploring a new solution to an old problem. An arts practice exploration of a modified music notation system, drawing on Irish based renaissance sources 

  O'Carroll, Kevin Fintan (University of Limerick, 2017)

  A 1984 performance of Sicut Cervus by Palestrina raised in this writer’s mind questions regarding the performance of Renaissance polyphony by non-specialist choirs. The initial questions developed into one which asked ...
• 'Déanta I nÉirinn': the reconstruction of Irish stereotypes, 1888-1914 

  O'Connor, John Philip (Univeristy of Limerick, 2012)

  This thesis shows how the synthesis between model Irish villages and picture postcards led to a reconstruction of Irish stereotypes on ephemera and commercial goods between 1888 and 1914. During this period Ireland became ...

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