Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Dignitatis humanae: public funding and divesting of faith schools in a liberal state
(University of Malta, 2016)This article examines a largely overlooked element of Dignitatis Humanae:, that is, its relevance for the question of whether or not the State has a duty to fund faith schools. To this end the fragmentary remarks of a ... -
Generalized vector bundles on curves (Pre-published version)
(de Gruyter, 1998)In their paper [14] G. Harder and M.S. Narasimhan (and independently D. Quillen) have constructed a canonical flag of subbundles on any vector bundle on a complete smooth algebraic curve over a field. This flag measures ... -
Moduli schemes of generically simple Azumaya modules
(Documenta Mathematica, 2005)Let A be an Azumaya algebra over a smooth projective variety X or more generally, a torsion free coherent sheaf of algebras over X whose generic fiber is a central simple algebra. We show that generically simple torsion ... -
A review of '"Ordinary Irish Life: Music, Sport and Culture" Méabh Ní Fhuartháin and David M. Doyle eds. (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2014)This collection of nine essays, edited under the auspices of the Centre for Irish Studies at NUI Galway, seeks to broaden further the remit of Irish Studies by arguing for the place of sport, music and culture as central ... -
Dissolving boundaries: building communities of practice
(Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2006)Dr. Roger Austin and Dr. Aidan Mulkeen in 1999 identified the opportunity that the growth of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) presented to schools and founded the Dissolving Boundaries programme from an ... -
Learning Anew – Teaching and Learning for the 21st Century, 2003 - 2007
(NUI Maynooth, 2007)Many of the more interesting stories that come to us from ancient times getclouded or distorted by the course of history. For instance it’s said that during the course of his trial, allegedly for corrupting the youth of ... -
Dissolving boundaries through technology in education: making a difference with ICT
(Ablex Publishing Corporation, 2008)A total of 320 schools have participated in the Dissolving Boundaries programme since its launch in 1999. The number of schools involved increased from 146 in 2006-7 to 170 in 2007-8. All schools in Northern Ireland continue ... -
Can technology offer a solution to providing large numbers of students with effective assessment feedback? An invitation to create and join a network of critical friends to provide feedback on feedback
(2018)The aim of this roundtable discussion is to share good practice in using technology to provide holistic feedback to student teachers between higher education institutions. It is envisaged that the resulting discussions ... -
A review of "The Cambridge Companion to Schumann" Beate Perrey ed. (Pre-published version)
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A review of "Reading Musical Interpretation: Case Studies in Solo Piano Performance" by Julian Hellaby (Pre-published version)
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A review of 'Irish Women at Work 1930–1960. By Elizabeth Kiely and Máire Leane' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)This exploration of Munster women’s experience in the workplace is based on the stories of forty-two women, representing a broad spectrum of generational, social and employment backgrounds. It is one of two linked outcomes ... -
A review of 'Dublin through the Ages by Art Cosgrove' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 1990)This collection of eight studies examines the development of Dublin from the ninth century to the late 1980s, tracing the physical growth of the city, the fluctuations of its population, and the varying fortunes of its ... -
A review of 'Dublin Slums, 1800-1925: A Study in Urban Geography by Jacinta Prunty' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)This study of the development of the Dublin slums over a period of a century and a quarter investigates the interrelated themes of public health, housing and poverty, as well as the reaction thereto by central and local ... -
A review of 'Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830 by David Dickson' (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2007)David Dickson's monumental work analyzes society in the southern Irish counties of Cork, Kerry, and west Waterford in the two centuries before the Great Famine, addressing the evolution of a key region and exploring ... -
A review of 'King Dan: the rise of Daniel O'Connell, 1775-1829 by Patrick M. Geoghegan' (Pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)This very readable work is the first volume of a proposed two-volume study of the life and political career of Daniel O'Connell, concentrating on his career up to the granting of Catholic emancipation in 1829. One might ... -
Limerick regional archives
(Irish Labour History Society, 1998)Sources for labour history in the Limerick Regional Archives are to be found within a number of local administrative and estate collections. Some data on the cost of living can be found in the Were Hunt Papers, dating from ... -
A review of 'Women of the House: Women's Household Work in Ireland 1922-1961. Discourses, Experiences and Memories by Caitriona Clear'
(Galway Archaeological & Historical Society, 2001)This study is based on exhaustive research in government departmental correspondence and reports, folklore records, newspapers, handbooks, periodicals and prescriptive literature, as well as on the personal testimonies of ... -
Report to the Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism on the work of the commission 1997-2003
(The Irish Manuscripts Commission Ltd., 2004)We, the Chairman and Members of the Irish Manuscripts Commission, have the honour to present our report as required by section 1 of the terms of reference of the Commission. -
Class and status in twentieth-century Ireland: the evidence of oral history
(Irish Labour History Society, 2007)In his recent monumental study of twentieth-century Ireland, Diarmaid Ferriter has emphasised pervasiveness of class distinction, particularly in the decades up to I960. This consciousness social class in its specifically ... -
A review of 'The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History by Mary Muldowney'
(Irish Labour History Society, 2007)This book, based on interviews with twenty-seven Dublin and Belfast-born women, explores the Irish female experience during World War II. Combining personal testimonies with the evidence of contemporary newspapers, official ...