Glucksman Memorial Symposium Posters 2007http://hdl.handle.net/2262/101782024-02-24T14:51:30Z2024-02-24T14:51:30ZBeneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age AegeanSaunders, Emmahttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/106782016-09-09T15:56:43Z2007-06-13T00:00:00ZBeneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean
Saunders, Emma
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.
Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007
2007-06-13T00:00:00ZAn Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary SchoolsWilloughby, Karenhttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/106622016-09-09T15:57:11Z2007-06-13T00:00:00ZAn Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary Schools
Willoughby, Karen
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.
Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007
2007-06-13T00:00:00ZConstructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920Ther, Vanessahttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/106612016-09-09T15:56:41Z2007-06-13T00:00:00ZConstructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920
Ther, Vanessa
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.
Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007
2007-06-13T00:00:00ZThe Spanish Flu in LeinsterMilne, Idahttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/106602016-09-09T15:56:40Z2007-06-13T00:00:00ZThe Spanish Flu in Leinster
Milne, Ida
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 Fein 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.
Exhibited at the second Glucksman Memorial Symposium on June 13th 2007
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