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The Making and Remaking of Irish History: An Interview with Vincent Comerford
(SAHKartell, 2016)On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, I sat down with former head of History at Maynooth University, Professor Vincent Comerford, to chat about the current state of the discipline, about changes within history over time and the telling ... -
The Making of Tomato Red: An Interview with Director Juanita Wilson
(SAHKartell, 2017)Juanita Wilson is a Dublin-based Film Director and Writer. In 2008, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her short film, The Door, which went on to win the IFTA Award for Best Short Film. She was awarded the prestigious ... -
Marginalizing Memory: Political Commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising
(SAHKartell, 2016)The recent centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising were notable for the considerable effort the Irish government put into making them inclusive. However, inclusiveness in this context masks the fact that the ... -
Measuring Social and Psychological Outcomes from Activation Labour Market Programmes in Higher Education: A Pilot Study
(DBS Library Press, 2018)Following the 2008 recession, Ireland experienced unemployment rates as high as 15% (McGuinness, O’Connell and Kelly, 2014). Policy responses have been through the introduction of upskilling and reskilling through ... -
The Minister For Poetry Has Decreed
(SAHKartell, 2016)...after Zbigniew Herbert. A new poem by Kevin Higgins. -
Moʻokūʻauhau (genealogies) of care: curating Aliʻi collections at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
(SAHKartell, 2017)This paper explores the practice of moʻokūʻauhau (genealogy) in the care of Aliʻi (chiefly) museum collections at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (Honolulu, HI). Caring for aliʻi objects is a cultural imperative, rooted ... -
‘The old people had brooms’: Yanyuwa women, material culture and resistance
(SAHKartell, 2017)This piece investigates the complex and multiple meanings associated with one piece of Australian Aboriginal material culture, a broom made by Yanyuwa woman Emalina Evans a-Wanajabi in the 1980s. Yanyuwa people constitute ... -
On the Emergence of the Technological University
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Once a Villain Always a Villain: Edmund’s “Reformation” in King Lear, 5.3.241-42
(SAHKartell, 2015)The article examines possible motives behind the alleged change of heart shown by Edmund at the end of King Lear when, defeated by his brother Edgar, he decides to revoke his former order to execute Lear and Cordelia. ... -
Originals: How Non-Conformists Change the World
(Dublin Business School, 2017)No abstract is provided. -
Ossian & the Hare: An Experiment in Poetry and the Alchemy of Film
(SAHKartell, 2016)Ossian & the Hare is an experimental film-essay combination intended to work like two sides of the one coin. The 20-minute long film is designed to be more experiential than narrative driven, moving us through various ... -
Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
(SAHKartell, 2016)Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other ... -
Patrick Pearse: Psychobiographical Reflections on an Enigmatic, Paradoxical Personality
(SAHKartell, 2016)To date historians have focused almost exclusively on Patrick Pearse’s key role in the 1916 Easter Rising to the extent that there is much less information about his personality development and characteristics. They have ... -
Politics, indigenous rights and resource ownership: Māori customary rights to the foreshore, seabed and fresh water in New Zealand
(SAHKartell, 2017)Māori customary rights to natural resources are a contentious issue between Māori and the New Zealand government and between Maori and non-Māori. The values and principles inherent in a treaty signed in 1840 between Māori ... -
The Power of a Single Number: a Political History of GDP
(Dublin Business School, 2017)No abstract is provided. -
A Preliminary Scoping Review Study of the Progress of Social Media Adoption as an Educational Tool by Academics in Higher Education
(DBS Library Press, 2018)This paper presents a preliminary scoping review exploring the evidence landscape regarding academic staff experiences and perceptions of social media adoption as an educational tool in higher education. The goal of this ... -
Project #CyborgArt: A Teaching Case Study on the Affordances Programmable Sensors in Mixed Media Art Projects
(DBS Library Press, 2018)Modern graduates of all disciplines require proficiency with new literacies to complement and enhance traditional higher-level education. Local and multinational businesses struggle to source graduates with both practical ... -
Protecting endangered languages: The case of Irish
(SAHKartell, 2017)This article reviews the Irish experience of plurilingual aspiration from three perspectives. It first relates the case for preserving and learning the Irish language to Ireland’s cultural development as an independent ... -
Psychoanalysing Theresa: Telling It Slant in Alice McDermott’s Child of My Heart
(SAHKartell, 2017)Psychoanalytic theory, as explained by Esther Rashkin, combines with literary analysis to understand the driving force that motivates a character to tell a story. Such is the case for understanding the first-person narrator ...