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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"The Troubles"”.
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The Troubles: Northern Ireland's Quest For Peace
The Troubles in Northern Ireland have proven to be one of the most intractable and enduring political, culture, and territorial disputes in Europe. The purpose of this thesis is to explain to the reader why. Furthermore, the thesis examines the evolution of American policy towards the province …
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Public Service and Politics: the BBC's Irish history programmes prior to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
This thesis examines how the BBC approached and presented Irish history in the years leading up to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It does so by examining three major Irish history projects broadcast between 1965 and 1981. By combining the BBC’s institutional history, Irish …
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Not quite the same: a personal ecology perspective on the enduring impact of growing up with the troubles
This thesis explores the enduring impact of Troubles-related memories on the lives and life-courses of individuals who grew up in Northern Ireland during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Underpinned by theories of emotions, memory, trauma, and Nigel Rapport’s life-project approach, it employs the …
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The French troubles thriller: genre, ideologies and representations (1971-1998)
While the English-language cultural response to the Troubles in Northern Ireland is well studied, French representations of the conflict have so far gone unobserved. This thesis aims to address this critical omission by examining examples of the most numerous and commercially successful of such …
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The Trouble with Hindsight Comparing Depictions of Pre-Troubles Northern Ireland in Pre-1968 and Post-1968 Fiction
… concerning significant historical events affects the writing process, with particular reference to the case of the Troubles in Northern Ireland.<br/><br/>I explore fictional depictions of Northern Ireland before the Troubles (pre-1968) and compare how novels which were written in that era (and …
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Talking stones : the politics of memorialisation in post-conflict Northern Ireland
… chapters. In Chapter 2,1 provide an overview of the theoretical background of my research, outlining the key developments, figures, academic works and trends in the conceptual fields of collective/social memory and the politics of memory. Here, I also discuss methods and ethical issues related to …
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Moral conduct in intelligence practice: lessons from the British experience in Northern Ireland, 1968-1998
The aim of this thesis is to investigate how the British state and its security establishment attempted to navigate moral conduct issues within the intelligence practice it employed during the conflict in Northern Ireland. It seeks to fill two gaps within the literature, related to both the …
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The Big House Motif in the Twentieth Century Hiberno-English Novel
<p>In this thesis we will look closely at five novels about big housed in Ireland. In order to provide the historical background necessary to understanding the context in which these novels were written, Chapter 1 briefly discusses the history of the Anglo-Irish from the time of Cromwell through …
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In a Relative Way
… and friends have helped form my life. Through the lives of those profiled here, I believe readers will get a better glimpse into the troubles I’ve been through in my own life. The many parallels I have with the lives of these family members and friends show that they have endured comparable …
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Troubling Women: Female Texts and Voices of the Northern Irish Conflict, 1969-1998
This thesis explores the bloody conflict in Northern Ireland between the Irish nationalist community, those desiring a united Ireland, and the Ulster loyalist community, those longing to remain a part of the UK, known as the Troubles (1969-1998). More specifically, this thesis centers on the strong …
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Performing Taboo: The Creation of an Aesthetic through the Exploration of Censorship in Theatre and the Challenges of Directing Killer Joe
This document explores the performance of taboo on the stage. The exploration is focused around the establishment of my personal aesthetic, which was developed through my studies at Virginia Commonwealth University. Starting with my first trip to Broadway, my journey goes through the class work …
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Saturday Nights Alone
… it difficult to divorce his creative mind from the troubles of his personal life. As a result his preoccupations with destroying his boss and taking back the girl the boss stole from him, work their way into Rick's new project. The motif of art imitating life imitating art forces Rick to …
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After Exodus : re-occupation of the metropolitan wall
The title "Exodus alludes to a restricted exclave encircled by a forbidding wall -- effect, a prison on the scale of a metropolis, and one in which people sought refuge voluntarily. Over the past forty years, similar walls have grown in the city of Belfast in an increasing effort to divide its …
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An exploration of a new heroin outbreak
… conflict, euphemistically referred to as the 'troubles' Northern Ireland (NI) began its ongoing, faltering transition toward peace. Precipitated by the arrival of the paramilitary ceasefires in August 1994, this peace process has lead to a major transformation of the political and social …
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ENDING AN ENEMY: UNITED STATES–IRAN RELATIONS
The Iran–United States relationship is often described by U.S. leaders as an intractable, zero-sum problem. In this view, the solution is to collapse the Islamic Republic by military threats and unyielding economic pressure. Since 1979, presidents of both parties have pursued this two-tool campaign …
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False Starts: A Collection of Stories
<p>The thesis project is a collection of short stories. Their loose thematic connection is that of the mental states of distress and illness like loneliness, frustration, depression, anxiety, mood disorders, and hallucinations. Most of the stories follow a magically real or surreal tone. The …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
The thesis examines how I might deploy the postmodern approaches of the metaphysical detective novel to represent a divided society’s quest to understand itself in the context of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Wary of the pitfalls of applying the certainties of traditional detective fiction to …
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Old borders, new technologies : visual culture and social change in contemporary Northern Ireland
The diverse convergence of film and visual art practices in contemporary Northern Ireland is indicative of its complex network of contested spaces; its visual culture is being radically re-shaped in the wake of the Troubles, and has become increasingly open to globally employed artistic influences …
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Dark Reflections: Fantasy and Duality in the Work of David Lynch
This thesis investigates the sexual construction of Lacanian fantasy in the work of David Lynch. Primary texts include Lynch's films <italic>Blue Velvet</italic> (1986), <italic>Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me</italic> (1992), <italic>Lost Highway</italic> (1997), and <italic>Mulholland …
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Autistic Workers: Invisible People
… about autistic workers concentrates on the troubles autistics have in the workplace; these problems are linked back to documented deficits in autistic people, thereby constructing a picture of autistic workers as people who need to be helped. There have been no academic studies asking …
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