http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10178 Mon, 20 May 2013 13:54:39 GMT 2013-05-20T13:54:39Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10678 Title: Beneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean Author: Saunders, Emma Abstract: This project began as an attempt to explain why the Minoan islanders developed and nurtured this marine interest, while neighbouring island cultures did not. In order to understand the enduring popularity of the sea in Minoan art, it is necessary to examine the wider social and religious role of the sea in Bronze Age Crete. As an avid scuba diver, I am also eager to apply marine biological research to identify behavioural observations and to test the accuracy of the Minoan depictions of marine life. My main area of research concerns the role of marine imagery and artefacts in ritual and funerary contexts. By exploring the marine aspect of Minoan religious ritual, I have found that the Minoans frequently offered marine objects such as painted shells and model boats in their shrines, and many of these shrines have a direct visual relationship with the sea. The Minoans also used vessels decorated with marine imagery as well as real marine shells, such as the large triton shell, as cult equipment. Triton shells, for example, were modified for use as ritual trumpets and as libation vessels (for pouring liquid offerings). The marine world also extended to funerary contexts, where octopus cut-outs were often sewn to funerary shrouds and marine creatures such as octopi and giant fish were used to decorate coffins larnakes). One aspect of my project involves assessing the extent to which marine motifs found in funerary contexts may relate to complex funerary beliefs concerning regeneration, fertility and an afterworld located overseas. The sea, which was so omnipresent in Minoan art, also permeated every aspect of Minoan life and death. Contextual analysis of marine imagery and artefacts suggests that marine motifs were not only decorative but could act as multi-referential visual symbols, with a range of different associations which careful study can bring to light. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10678 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10662 Title: An Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary Schools Author: Willoughby, Karen Abstract: Recent government reports highlight potential delays in the implementation of the revisions to writing instruction outlined in the 1999 English Curriculum for primary schools. Although delays appear to exist, the nature and origin of these delays has yet to be examined in explicit detail. The overall aim of this study is to conduct an in-depth examination of the approaches to compositional writing instruction used in Irish primary schools. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10662 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10661 Title: Constructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920 Author: Ther, Vanessa Abstract: The fall of Weimar democracy in 1933 has evoked massive interest among historians and the general public and numerous attempts have been made to explain Hitler's rise to power. In this context, many historians have explained the rhetorical exploitation of the war as a significant factor in right-wing ideology during the Weimar Republic. Vanessa Ther's thesis aims to address the fact that in this narrative, the republican attempts to deal with the legacy of the First World War have been largely neglected. The research for this project encompasses a broad range of republican journals and newspapers as well as a large number of political leaflets and pamphlets. On the basis of this source material it could be established that the specifically republican narrative of the war did not reflect an inability to exploit the issue but distinctly attempted to seize the population's war weariness in order to rally political support for the republic. Right-wing attacks on the legitimacy and the achievements of the republic and republican inter-party rivalries, however, led to inconsistencies and misjudgements in the narrative of revolution, which made the republic more vulnerable. It can furthermore be suggested that the republican propaganda was also weakened by the inability to define a rhetoric of dissent that diverged from the war propaganda which had been appropriated from the right wing. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10661 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10660 Title: The Spanish Flu in Leinster Author: Milne, Ida Abstract: The 'Spanish' Influenza pandemic killed 40 to 100 million people during 1918 and 1919, and probably infected about one fifth of the world's population. It disrupted society and economies, debilitated all the armed forces involved in WWI, forced international health authorities to set up influenza monitoring systems and left a lasting legacy of health problem for survivors. On the island of Ireland, the virus killed a conservative 20,051 people, and infected perhaps 800,000 people. Its introduction and dispersal was facilitated by the return of soldiers from the area of the war. But it has been generally ignored by Irish historiography, as historians have been more concerned with political and military issues. This research project looks at what happened in Dublin and the rest of Leinster during the pandemic. Strands include how influenza exacerbated some of the political issues of the day, including tensions over the treatment of political prisoners and Sinn Féin members 'on the run'. It examines the extent to which the Spanish flu disrupted the economy and society, and looks at how hospitals, health authorities and families struggled to treat the ill, curtail the spread of disease and bury the dead. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10660 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10659 Title: The Campus Martius, Rome Author: Hargis, Siobhán Abstract: The Campus Martius was an area in Rome located on a flood plain in the bend of the River Tiber. A pomerium (a sacred boundary associated with the foundation of Rome) ran to the South of the Campus Martius. This boundary prevented the area from being incorporated into the city proper and meant that a number of activities and building projects that were seen as unsuitable for the city centre could be accommodated in this area. The military could also use this area as it was outside the city limits. During the Empire the pomerium was extended northwards, thereby allowing for further urbanisation in the southern Campus. The variety of buildings in the Campus Martius is particularly interesting. As the area was not regarded as part of the city proper, a greater flexibility was allowed when it came to building design, materials and ultimately the manner in which they were utilised. Therefore leisure complexes were constructed, temples were built from marble and architectural elements influenced from the Greek east and from Egypt were allowed to be displayed. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10659 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10658 Title: A Woman's Way Through Times of Social Change Author: Carpenter, Laura Abstract: This study attempts to track the images and representations of mature women in a long-running Irish women's magazine: Woman's Way, from its inception in 1963, to 1990. In my research I am interested to find out whether these representations have been consistent over the years, or if there are signs of change with time. What do the representations tell us about norms of femininity in a youth and beauty culture? Are older women taken seriously? What do articles tell us about their role/place in Irish society? Is age appreciated for its wisdom, or as something to be hidden away? In attempt to answer these questions, I am carrying out a detailed content analysis, looking at visual images of and references to older women within the magazine. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10658 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10645 Title: Irish Foreign Policy and Sub-Saharan Africa 1956-1976 Author: O' Sullivan, Kevin Abstract: Using a wide variety of sources, from archival and printed works to the interviews with those involved in policy-making, this project uses the example of sub-Saharan African policy to explore the internationalisation of Irish foreign policy and its interaction with global politics. The narrative of Ireland's involvement in the decolonisation of Africa, policy on apartheid and minority rule, the importance of missionaries, and the evolution of an Irish development aid programme is inter-woven into a broader analysis of policy that looks at the growing influence of Europe, public opinion, and the changing international environment on Irish government policy. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10645 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10644 Title: Moving Histories: Discourses on Irish Women's Emigration to England Examined, 1922-1948 Author: Redmond, Jennifer Abstract: This thesis looks at the public and private discourses on Irish women's emigration to England in the post-independence, pre-Republic era. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10644 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10643 Title: The "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project: Mapping the Neuro-Architecture of Modernity Author: O' Connor, Theresa Abstract: Like "Second Skin", a dynamic model of architecture pioneered by Marcos Lutyens at the Architectural Association in London, Finnegans Wake asks the reader to extend his/her consciousness to become a co-producer of an emergent architecture, in this case, a virtual city Joyce calls "Doublends Jined." Joyce's work does not provide answers. It offers an experimental playground in which a coming architecture and a coming model of identity as a multi-focal entity might be mapped out. The aim of the "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project is to uncover the "brain plan" of "Doublends" and build a brain navigator to guide us through its memory space, its landscape/mindscape. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10643 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10642 Title: Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: A Poststructuralist Approach Author: Recht, Larke Abstract: This project will provide a theoretical comparative analysis of the archaeological, iconographic and literary evidence concerning sacrifice in the civilisations of the Aegean and Near East in the Bronze Age. It will offer both an overview of the 'meaning' of sacrifice to the different civilisations in this period and a theoretical re-evaluation of the traditional archaelogical/anthropological approaches to Bronze Age sacrifice, in the light of poststructuralism and postmodernism. Description: Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007 Tue, 12 Jun 2007 23:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2262/10642 2007-06-12T23:00:00Z