Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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An examination of the elite development pathways for male golfers in Ireland (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2019-11-01)Research question: In recent years, Irish men’s professional golf has enjoyed global success, resulting in an increased focus on golfer development and talent pathways in Ireland. Using the SPLISS model as a guiding ... -
'Wow these girls can play’: sex integration in professional golf (Pre-published)
(Routledge, 2020-02-20)Men and women typically operate in separate spaces in the sporting world, with sport being one of the few social institutions that continues to segregate the two sexes. The culture of golf, like sport more broadly, is ... -
An exploration of teachers’ perceptions of how the classroom environment can support pupils with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in the mainstream primary school (Pre-published)
(Elsevier, 2021)This study sought to explore teachers’ perceptions of how the classroom environment can be used to support learners with Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). While knowledge about educational interventions for children with ... -
Exemptions from Irish: an Inclusion dilemma (Pre-published)
(Elsevier, 2018)While exemptions from Irish are periodically reported in the media, they have attracted little academic commentary. Learners with certain special educational needs (SEN) qualify for an exemption from Irish when clear ... -
An examination of the special education teacher allocation model to support inclusion in Irish primary schools
(2021-11-18)The global movement towards inclusive education (Anderson et al. 2007; Garrote et al. 2017) sees a fundamental obligation on State to provide an effective model which supports and enables school staff to include and cater ... -
An enquiry into contemporary relativism: arguing in favour of irrealist metaethics
(2021-11-08)This project will firstly set out to argue that relativism is a viable and defensible stance which can be taken up in many contemporary philosophical debates. This will be achieved firstly by drafting an overview of the ... -
Transatlantic exchange, urban development and heterogeneous engineering in the west of Ireland: Belmullet's unbuilt railways, c. 1820-1920 (Pre Published)
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-09)This chapter focuses on technological and geo-spatial dreams of modernity through a study of the unexecuted proposals for developing the town of Belmullet in Co. Mayo as a transatlantic packet station. It adds to the growing ... -
The foundation documents of Pocklington School, Yorkshire, 1514-2014 (Pre published)
(Esson Print, 2014)This volume contains translations of the foundation documents for Pocklington School, Yorkshire, to mark its 500th anniversary in 2014. It also features a brief introduction to the history of education in Ireland and a ... -
From the hoof to the hook: an investigation of beef processor influence on Irish farm policy and politics, 1950-1986
(2021-06-11)This thesis traces the development of the Irish beef processing industry through its first thirty-six years from 1950 to 1986. It asks how and why meat processing firms became so influential in Irish farming, documenting ... -
All Saints, Drimoleague, and Catholic visual culture under Bishop Cornelius Lucey in Cork, 1952-9 (Pre published)
(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2015)All Saints, Drimoleague, designed by Cork architect Frank Murphy and built in 1954-6, was the first church built in a modernist architectural style in the Cork and Ross diocese since Christ the King, Turner’s Cross, in the ... -
All Saints, Drimoleague: clarifications and new discoveries (Pre published)
(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2016)Since the publication of my article on Catholic visual culture in Cork in the 1950s in last year’s journal, some new material has come to my attention that allows for both some clarifications as well as some new insights. ... -
Elizabeth Shaw (1920-1992): the Irish caricaturist who left her mark on East-German children’s literature (Pre-published)
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2015)One of my favourite picture books as a child was Der kleine Angsthase, a present from an aunt who lived in the former German Democratic Republic. It was somewhat exotic, like everything else which arrived in the Christmas ... -
Report on human trafficking and exploitation on the island of Ireland (Pre-published)
(Mary Immaculate College, 2021)The Human Trafficking & Exploitation Project on the Island of Ireland (HTEPII) is the culmination of a cooperative project involving several collaborators. This unique mixed-methods research project brings together senior ... -
Trasteangú san oideachas lán-Ghaeilge- deiseanna agus dúshláin (Pre-published)
(St. Mary's University College, Belfast, 2020)Is éard atá i gceist le trasteangú ná malartú córasach idir dhá theanga sa seomra ranga tumoideachais, chun tacú le foghlaim an ábhair agus le forbairt inniúlachta sa dá theanga de réir mar a théann na daltaí i dtaithí ar ... -
Oideolaíocht an trasteangaithe i mbunscoileanna na hÉireann: páipéar seasaimh ar a poitéinseal i gcomhthéacsanna áirithe (Pre-published)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2017)Is fealsúnacht oideachais é an trasteangú (Trawsieithu sa Bhreatnais agus Translanguaging sa Bhéarla) atá tagtha go mór chun cinn le fiche bliain anuas i réimse an oideachais dhátheangaigh. Tagraíonn sé d’idéeolaíocht ... -
Saintréithe an luath-oideachais ghaeltachta: léargais úra ó chás-staidéar i ngaeltacht chonamara (Pre-published)
(National University of Ireland, Galway, 2016)Déanfar anailís chriticiúil san alt seo, ar an múnla luath-oideachais dhátheangaigh atá i bhfeidhm i mbunscoil amháin i nGaeltacht Chonamara (Catagóir A). Breathnófar ar athróga éagsúla dá múnla oideachais lena n-áirítear: ... -
Cork’s courthouses, the landed elite and the Rockite rebellion: architectural responses to agrarian violence, 1820-27 (Pre published)
(Liverpool University Press, 2016-06-29)Excerpt from pre-published version of Crime, Violence and the Irish in the Nineteenth Century published by Liverpool University Press: The study of architectural history has been fertile ground for revisionist approaches ... -
A historical analysis of senior cycle state examinations in the school subject English from 1878-2016: a longitudinal study
(2021-05-04)This thesis critically examines senior cycle examination in Ireland for the school subject English from colonial to modern times. It explores the development of examinations as a method of senior cycle assessment and, in ... -
St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Bantry: a history (Pre published)
(Bantry Historical Society, 2017-12-11)St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church in Bantry has a long and rich history, and is widely regarded as one of the most important buildings in the town and surrounding area. It has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment, ... -
Coventry: the making of a modern city, 1939-73 (Historic England, Swindon, 2016). By Jeremy Gould and Caroline Gould (review)
(Routledge, 2016-08-30)Review of book: Coventry: the making of a modern city, 1939-73 (Historic England, Swindon, 2016). By Jeremy Gould and Caroline Gould