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Showing 1 to 20 of 1482 for “"Irish"”.
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Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction
Regular Wild Irish: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in Irish American Fiction examines the ways in which Irish American writers construct "Irishness" in fictional texts which borrow from and respond to literary and cultural discourses in the United States and Ireland in the nineteenth and early …
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Irish Shipping Limited 1939-45 and its Influence on Irish Neutrality
… was adopted for two reasons, firstly as the Irish defence forces were ill equipped to partake in a modern war with no airforce or anti-aircraft guns with which to defend the country, and secondly it was affirmation to a global audience o f Irelands sovereignty and the fact that Britain no …
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Theorising Irish company law: locating Irish company law within entity theory
… entity theory as a framework for studying Irish company law and indeed other company law regimes that are built on the doctrines of limited liability and corporate personality. Third, it will show that Irish company law and most corporate law frameworks enable and support managerial …
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An Irish apostle: articulating and actualising apostolicity in the early Irish church
… as evidence for a seventh-century debate on Irish apostolicity. While often dismissed as mere propaganda, this thesis shows they are highly sophisticated demonstrations of the continuing connection that Kildare and Armagh had to their patron saints and their authority. It examines the …
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The Relationship between the Irish Sign Language Campaign and the Irish Deaf Community
… study is to explore the relationship between the Irish Sign Language Recognition campaign and the Irish Deaf community. The dissertation reviews the literature theories of Deafhood, social activism and language rights; applying the theories into the analysis of the findings. The purpose of the …
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The Irish theatre of today
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Irish modernism and the machine
… Instead of an affirmation, I posit that Irish modernists issue a qualification, suggesting that Ireland’s technological development must be accompanied by ideological advancement. Irish modernists thus cast machines as vehicles that operate beyond the bounds of their mechanistic …
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Thieves Apostates and Bloody Viragos: Female Irish Catholic Rebels in the Irish Rebellion of 1641.
… of this thesis is to discuss the roles played by Irish Catholic women in the Irish Rebellion of 1641. The primary goal is to examine the factors that determined the nature of those roles. To achieve this end, I used the information contained in the 1641 depositions, a collection of sworn …
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Irish Life and Character in Anglo-Irish and English Fiction During the Career of Maria Edgeworth
… examining in the light of Ireland's history the Irish characters and scenes in the Anglo-Irish and English fiction of the early nineteenth century, I have found that the abnormal times were productive of many of the strange types portrayed by the novelists. Reference to the traditions, social …
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Irish Sea : a socio-ecological system
… management. Key to this was to approach the Irish Sea as an interacting human-marine system, and to explore methodologies appropriate to interdisciplinary research in order to analyse why marine conservation is failing to deliver. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), a spatial …
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The Irish Army in the Congo
… the Free State (F.S.) had as its forerunner the Irish Republican Army (I.R.A.). Many who fought in the Anglo Irish war with the I.R.A. continued their service with the N.A. in the civil war of 1922/3. Although there was heavy recruitment to the NA at the start of the civil war, the veteran …
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Satirical narrative in early Irish literature
When critics formerly considered satire in early Irish literature their main focus was áer. Satire in the more modern sense has received comparatively little attention. This thesis attempts to redress that balance by analysing a number of specific texts for satirical content as it is conventionally …
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Narratives in early Irish law tracts
… The significant presence of narratives in early Irish law tracts appears at odds with the normal conception of law texts as consisting solely of provisions, and therefore needs to be accounted for. Since no systematic study has been conducted of these legal narratives, this thesis serves as an …
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Textual criticism and medieval Irish studies
… are those written by scholars of Old and Middle Irish in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Where Machan aims to articulate the textual and cultural factors that characterise Middle English works as Middle English, the purposes of this thesis are (a) to identify the underlying …
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Beyond the tune: new Irish music
The Irish musician is in an interesting position in relation to other post-colonial world cultures. As a colonised nation we have much in common with other colonised or formerly colonised peoples but we are also a first world country firmly ensconced as part of the “Western World”. As an Irish …
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