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Enlightenment and the Republic of Letters at the Dublin Medico-Philosophical Society, 1756-1784
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)The Dublin Medico-Philosophical Society was established by John Rutty, Charles Smith and others in 1756. It was a small, self-funded and self-selecting learned society, which met on a bi-monthly basis to present and ... -
Exploring the Concept and Determinants of Mental Health of the Tibetan Community in Exile: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Globally, the focus on mental health (MH) issues has become increasingly important in recent years. However, current Western approaches based on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), have ... -
A fitful fungus from a hot, arid climate increases grain yield in cool-cultivated barley
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Purpose The fungus Piriformospora indica was first isolated from plants growing in arid, hot desert conditions and has been shown to have significant potential as a biocontrol and biofertilising organism in barley under ... -
Friendship in the Field: Ethics and Reflexivity in Auto/biographical Research
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)The aim of this paper is to explore a model of researcher reflexivity, drawn from anthropological literature and applied to an auto/biographical study of young men in university. Social scientific research can involve ... -
Governing Traveller Identity Analysing the Irish State’s Refusal to Recognise Traveller Ethnicity by
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)In November 2014, the Minister of State for Equality Aodhán Ó Riordáin said that it was “no longer tenable for this State to deny Traveller ethnicity” and that Traveller ethnicity will be “a reality” in six months (Holland, ... -
Grieving students: The response and support of educators in Irish schools
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)It is estimated that bereavement has affected between 36,000 and 60,000 young people in Ireland. Little academic research has been conducted to ascertain the response of Irish schools to bereavement and grief support. The ... -
“It’s Always the Same, and It’s Always Different” Mythologisation and the Serial Killer in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer.
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)Serial killers are important in American horror because of their ability to exist between ‘myth’ and ‘reality’. The serial killer is one of the most important American myths, but it is one firmly rooted in real life: ... -
JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH VOLUME XIII
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JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH VOLUME XIV 2015
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)It is with great pleasure that we present the fourteenth volume of Trinity College Dublin’s Journal of Postgraduate Research (JPR). The JPR provides an opportunity for postgraduate students to present original and ... -
A Narrative of Revision Documents of Performance and the Theatrical Abridgment Theory in Romeo and Juliet
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)One question lies at the heart of Shakespeare editorial studies: if multiple versions of a play were printed within his lifetime, how can we know what best represents Shakespeare’s true vision? This concern is particularly ... -
Native fungal microorganisms enhance important agronomic traits in barley by
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)Successfully addressing the challenge of providing future food security will require both improvements in crop yield as well as the cultivation of additional farmland. This may result in the steady increase of farming ... -
Photo/Memory: Recovering Memory and Identity through Photographs in Post-1945 Art and Literature
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)The use of the photograph is particularly prevalent among artists of the first post-war generation, born shortly before or after Stunde Null (Zero Hour), 1945. These artists become the inheritors of the horrors perpetrated ... -
A Practical Humanoid Robot Morphology for Operation in Civilian Environments
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Despite recent progress in robotics research and development, the effective design of multi-purpose robotic solutions for civilian and domestic environments has proven particularly elusive. Mechanically simple systems are ... -
Putting oesophageal cancer on the RACK A study of the RACK1 scaffolding protein in oesophageal adenocarcinoma
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)Purpose There is a need to identify new therapeutic targets for oesophageal adenocarcinoma. Deoxycholic acid is a component of gastro-oesophageal refluxate and is believed to promote oesophageal adenocarcinoma. RACK1 ... -
Religious Education and Islamic Religious Education in Europe Reflections for Ireland
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)Debate about the place of religion in public education, both in Europe and worldwide, has increased in the twenty-first century. The role of faith-based schools in secular societies and the need for provision of religious ... -
A Risk Worth Taking? A Study of Mature Students’ Experiences in Two Irish Universities
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Policy forecasts suggest that mature students (aged +23) will form an increasing part of a more diverse student body in Irish higher education going forward. This presents challenges for a provision that has been geared ... -
RoadRunners: An Exploratory Study of an Activity Programme for Young Offenders in North Dublin
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Purpose The Children Act 2001, in a significant departure from earlier Irish juvenile justice legislation, introduces a range of community based sanctions for young offenders including a Probation (training and activity ... -
The Supremacy of European Union Law: An Inevitable Revolution or Federalism in Action?
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)The European Union is a fully fledged, sui generis legal order. The doctrine of supremacy, developed by the European Court of Justice in the seminal case of Costa v ENEL established Union laws having primacy over domestic ... -
That book should be burned: thee contested afterlife of Bertolt Brecht
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Varieties of Untranslatability Exploring a potential system of classification for the discussion of untranslatability in literary texts
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2015)This paper outlines a new theoretical framework for the discussion of untranslatability in translation theory and practice. It reacts to the observation that the concept of untranslatability within Translation Studies ...