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That book should be burned: thee contested afterlife of Bertolt Brecht
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We are men, thou and I': defining masculinity in H. Rider Haggard's 'King's Solomen's Mines' and 'She'
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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 ... -
Class divisions and the ‘mere Irish’ of colonial Ulster
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)This article seeks to delineate the class structure of indigenous society in Ulster in the period between the beginning of large-scale colonisation at the start of the 17th century, and the 1641 rising. This has been ... -
“Apotropaic” Tactics in the Matthean Temptation
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Among the Dead Sea Scrolls are a number of texts that provide insight into demonological beliefs and practices in Second Temple Judaism. Some passages are concerned principally with providing safety from demonic influence. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Black and White and Green All Over? The Emergence of Irish Female Stardom in Contemporary Mainstream Cinemas
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)This article proposes to address issues of gender and ethnicity in performances by Irish female film stars since 2000. In Acting Irish in Hollywood, Ruth Barton has noted that it has been easier, historically, for Irish ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
JOURNAL OF POSTGRADUATE RESEARCH VOLUME XIII
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Visions of the Future: Dream narratology in (Proto-)Science Fiction
(Graduate Students’ Union of the University of Dublin, Trinity College, 2014)Dream narration has a lengthy history in the Western literary tradition, functioning as the earliest iteration of the frame story. Dream narratives can be found in the Bible, and in Greek and Latin classical literature, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ...