Previous Years Awards - 2001

Postgraduate Scheme

Postgraduate scholarships were awarded to the
following applicants for 2001-2:

Aigner, Petra, B.Soc.Sc. (Birmingham) M.Phil. (TCD) “Discourses about Ethnic Minorities in Contemporary Upper Austria” (Department of Sociology, TCD)

Aviotte, Elodie, Masters (Sorbonne) “The Unionist Dimension in the United States of America 1995-2000” (Business School, DCU).

Barter, James Derek, B.A. (NUIM) “Anglicising Ireland: The Effects of British Popular Culture on Irish Catholic Identity, 1849-79” (Department of Modern History, NUIM).

Boldt, Andreas Dieter, Dip. (Bremen), B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “Leopold von Ranke and Ireland” (Department of Modern History, NUIM).

Boran, Lorraine, B.A. (TCD) “The Effects of Prism Adaptation on Postural Balance, Perceptual and Motor Difficulties following Right Hemisphere Stroke” (Psychology Department, TCD).

Breathnach, Colm, B.A., H.Dip.Ed. (UCD) “A Geography of Class and Identity in Dun Laoghaire 1800-1922” (Department of Geography, TCD).

Burke, Declan J., B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “Consumer Practice, Urban Space and Group Identity” (Department of Sociology, NUIM).

Burke, Susan, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “The Presence of Wollstonecraft in the Work of Mary Shelley” (Department of English, UCC).

Butler, Jennifer, B.A. (UCC), “Neo-Pagan Ritual in Ireland as Cultural Process” (Department of Folklore and Ethnology, UCC).

Butler, David J., B.A. (UCC) “Power, Identity and the Construction of Difference: The Protestants of South Tipperary County” (Department of Geography, UCC).

Byrne, Mary, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (NUIG) “The Development and Evaluation of a Mental Health Promotion Programme for Post-Primary Schools” (Department of Health Promotion, NUIG).

Byrne, Ray, B.A. (DIT), Post-Grad. Diploma (TCD), “Opiate-Related Deaths Investigated by the Dublin City and County Coroners Between 1998 and 2002” (Department of Social Studies, TCD).

Cane, John, B.A. (Open University) “Cheek by Jowl: Residential Relations and Community Identity in the Liberties” (Geography Department, UCD).

Carney, Siobhan, B.A., M.A., H.Dip.Ed. (NUIM) “Micro-Enterprises and their External Institutional Environment” (Department of Geography, TCD).

Cavatorta, Francesco, B.A. (Trieste), M.A. (Syracuse) “Adding the International Dimension to Transitions to Democracy. Is Neo-Realism the Way Forward? : The Case of Algeria” (Department of Political Science, TCD).

Cecere, Giulia, Dottore in Lettere Moderne (Pisa), H.Dip.Ed. “From “East of Europe” to Eastern Europe: an Eighteenth–Century Path to European Identity” (Combined Departments of History, UCD).

Clarke, Edward, B.A. (Oxford), “Wallace Stevens’ Conversation Poems” (School of English, TCD).

Clarke, Mary, B.A. (TCD) “Rehabilitation of Hemiplegia Using ‘Virtual Reality’” (Department of Psychology, TCD).

Comerford, Barry, B.A. (TCD) "An Investigation into the Link Between Tariffs and Growth in the late Nineteenth Century" (Department of Economics, TCD).

Condon, Denis, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (DCU) “Envisioning Ireland in Early Irish Film” (Department of English, NUIM).

Connolly, Ruth, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “Subjectivity in the Writings of Mary Boyle Rich and Katherine Boyle Jones” (Department of English UCC).

Conway, Maura, B.A. (NUIG), M.A. (UL) “Back to the Future: Anarchy, Sovereignty and Global Terrorism” (Department of Political Science, TCD).

Cremin, Derek, B.Mus., M.Phil. (UCC) “The Development of Musicological Research via the Internet” (Music Department, UCC).

Cullen, Joseph, B.A. (TCD) “International R&D Spillovers: An Examination of the Sources and Channels of Technology Diffusion across Countries” (Department of Economics, TCD).

Curran, Edel, B.A. (NUIM) “The Reception of Grimms’ Tales in France : An Analysis of Selected 19th and 20th Century French Translations of Kinder und Havsmarchen der Bruder Grimm” (German Department, NUIM).

Curran, Kevin, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “The Jacobean Marriage Masque: Cultural Anxiety and Problems of Representation” (Department of English, UCD).

Curtin, Catherine, B.A. (Liverpool), M.A. (London University) “A Study of the Position of Japanese Butoh in Western Intercultural Theatre” (Drama Department, TCD).

Curtis, Margaret P., B.A., HDip.Ed., M.A. (UCC) “Provincial Government and Administration in Early Stuart Ireland” (Department of History UCC).

Day, Joanna, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (Sheffield) “A Study of the Plants Depicted in Bronze Age Aegean Iconography and an Examination of their Possible Roles and Uses in Minoan Society” (School of Classics, TCD).

Delaney, Liam, B.A. (TCD) “A Study of Willingness to Pay for Cultural Public Goods: Issues and Applications” (Economics Department, TCD).

Delap, Charles, B.A., HDip. (TCD), M.Soc.Sc. (UCD) “The Housing Experiences of Low-Income, Non-Resident Fathers” (Department of Social Policy and Social Work, UCD).

De Tona, Carla, Laurea (Perugia) M.Phil. (TCD) “Italian Women in Ireland: The Extraordinary Stories of Ordinary People” (Department of Sociology, TCD).

Devine, Karen, B.A., M.A.Qual. (UCD), M.A. (UL) “A Definition and Explanation of the Irish Public’s Views of Irish Neutrality in the Post-Cold War Era” (Department of Political Science, TCD).

Dickinson, Sheila, B.A. (St. Olaf), M.Phil. (NUIG) “Irish Women Artists: Leading Experimentalists and Challengers of Tradition, with Focus on Kathy Prendergast, Dorothy Cross, Alice Maher” (History of Art Department, UCD).

Dinneen, Florence, B.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. (UCC) “The Concept of Educare in Public Day-Care Facilities in Ireland and in the Irish Psyche at the Start of the Third Millennium” (The Education Department, UCC).

Dorris, Derek, B.A., M.Litt. (UCD) “The Development and Validation of a Cognitive Model of Mental Control” (Department of Psychology, UCD).

Downey, Mary Margaret, B.A. (Open University) “Castlecomer: The Wandsforde Estate and Local Society, 1830-1970” (Department of Modern History, NUIM).

Downes, Gerard, B.A. (UL) “Implications of the Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Aspects of the WTO TRIPs Agreement for the Developing World” (Centre for Peace and Development Studies, UL).

Doyle, Orla, B.A. (TCD) “A Regional Analysis of Voting Patterns in the Czech Republic” (Department of Economics, TCD).

Duffy, Maria Jacinta, B.Th. (St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth), M.Phil. (Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium) “Between Memory and Forgetting: Narrative as a Mediation – In the Ethics of Peace (An Irish Case Study)” (Department of Moral Political Theology, St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth).

Duignan, Aoife, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Confiscation to Transplantation” (Combined Departments of History, UCD).

Dullea, John, B.A. (UCC), MPhil. (UCC) “Parliament na bhFigheadoiri” (Department of Modern Irish, UCC).

Dullea, Rhoda, B.Mus. (UCC) “Issues of Ethnicity in the Hungarian Music Tradition: The Role of the Roma in the Construction of National Identity” (Department of Music, UCC).

Dupuy, Coralline, B.A., M.A. (Brest) “The Mentor in Nineteenth-Century Fantastic Literature and Detective Fiction” (Department of English, NUIG).

Edgeworth, Gillian, B.Bus. (UL) “The Impact of Financial Development on Economic Growth in Transition Economies – An Empirical Analysis of Data in Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic” (Department of Economics, UL).

Egan, Ruth, B.A. (TCD) “Alternative Naturalist Theories to Functionalism in Philosophy of Mind” (Department of Philosophy, UCD).

Fassbender, Catherine, B.A. (UCD) “The Relationship between Sustained Attention and Inhibition” (Psychology Department , TCD).

Feeney, Thomas M., B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Sean MacEntee and the Development of Social Policy in Independent Ireland” (History Department, UCD).

Fennell, Sarah-Jane, LL.B ( TCD), B.L. (Kings Inns) “The Media, Politics and Free Speech: A Comparative Study” (School of Law, TCD).

Finucane, Jane, B.A., M.Phil. (TCD) “Propaganda and Preparation of the Public for Entry into the Thirty Days War” (Department of Modern History, TCD).

Firmo-Fontan, Victoria, B.A. (Sussex), M.A. (UL) “Peace-Building in Lebanon: Patriarchy and Social Discontent as Dynamics in a Developing Reconciliation Process” (Centre for Peace and Development Studies, UL).

Flynn, Catherine, B.Arch. (UCD), B.A. (UCC) “Representations of Psychoanalysis” (Department of English, UCC).

Flynn, Niamh, B.A. (NUIG) “An Examination of Karasek’s Job Demand Control Model using Modified Measures of its Constructs” (Department of Psychology, NUIG).

Freely, Áine, B.A. (NUIG), M.Psych.Sc. (NUIG) “Psychological Influences on Immune Responses in Atopic Asthma” (Psychology Department, NUIG).

Gallagher, Ellen, B.Soc.Sc., M.Soc.Sc. (UCD) “Irish Humour and Social Change” (Department of Sociology, UCD).

Gibson, Patricia, B.A., M.A. (Nancy) “Translating Northern Irish Novels into French : the Position and Role of the Translator in the Conflict Situation” (French Department, NUIM).

Gilbert, Jérémie, Deug (Lyon), Licence (Paris x), Masters (Montreal), Masters (NUIG) “The Protection of the Environment, a New Challenge for International Human Rights Law?” (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG).

Gilligan, Rosemarie, B.A. (University of Ulster Coleraine) "Use/Consumption of Information and Consumption Technologies (ICTs) in Households in the West of Ireland" (School of Communications, Dublin City University).

Grassick, Denise, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) H.Dip.Ed. (TCD) “A Comparative Analysis of the Spatial Variation in Prevalence of Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder in Rural Ireland” (Geography Department, NUIM).

Hallahan, Sara, B.A. (UCC) “May 1968, The Year of the Barricades” (Department of History, UCC).

Hamilton, Claire, LL.B. (TCD), B.L. (Kings Inns) “Moral Panic in Irish Society and Legislative Reform” (Faculty of Law, TCD).

Harris, Jason, B.A.(Hons) (TCD) “The Friendship Network of Abraham Ortelius” (Department of Modern History, TCD).

Hill, John G., B.A. (UL) “Comparative Advantage in Traded Services: A Quantitative Analysis of Services Liberalisation in The Peoples’ Republic of China” (Euro-Asia Centre, UL).

Hogan, Ciara, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “Not I: Masks of Self in Twentieth-Century Anglo Irish Poetry” (Department of English UCD).

Holden, Mary T., B.S.A. (Michigan) “Modelling the Effect of Relationship Structure and Communication on the Development of E-Relationships in a Business-to-Business Context” (Department of Management and Organisation, Waterford IT).

Holden, Patrick, B.A.(UCD) “E.U. Relations with North Africa since the Barcelona Convention” (Department of Government and Society, UL).

Horgan, Edward John, B.A. (UL), M.Phil (TCD) “The Holocaust of the 1990s – Should United Nations Peacekeeping Failures lead to Questionable Peace-Enforcement by Partial Regional Security Forces such as NATO” (Centre for Peace and Development Studies, UL).

Horta, José, B.A. (Porto) “A Changing Ireland: Geographical Images by Portuguese Consuls 1830-1925” (Department of Geography, UCC).

Hourihane, Maca, Dip. in Physiotherapy (UCD) M.A. (Padua) “International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law: Exploring Complimentarity” (Irish Centre for Human Rights, NUIG).


Hurley, James, BE., M.A., Grad.Dip. (UL) “The Print Media & Democracy: A Case Study of Uganda” (Department of Media and Communication Studies, MIC/UL).

Hurley, Olivia Antoinette, B.Sc., Masters (UCD) “Psychological Factors Associated with Injury Prevention and Injury Recovery in Professional Athletes” (Department of Psychology, UCD).

Jones, Heather S., B.A. (TCD), M.Phil. (Cambridge) “Political Mentalities and Wartime Incarceration: The Prisoner of War Experience in the First World War in Germany, Britain and France” (Department of History, TCD).

Kavanagh, Brendan, B.A. (Middlesex), M.A. (UCD), HDip.Ed. (UCC) “W.B. Yeats and Eastern Mysticism” (Department of English UCC).

Keane, Mary Paul, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (NUIG) “The Representation of Women in Militant Nationalism in Late-Twentieth-Century Ireland: Literature and Related Discourses” (Department of English, NUIG).

Keating, Jacqueline, B.A., M.A. (NUIG) “Galway: The ‘First Official’ Cultural Capital of the West” (Department of English, NUIG).

Keaveney, Joanne, B.A. (UCD) “Recombinative Generalisation and Reading” (Department of Psychology, NUIM).

Kelly, Elish, B.A. (TCD) “Measuring Welfare from Cultural Public Goods – A Comparison of Diversity Measures” (Department of Economics, TCD).

Kingston, Anna Karin, B.A. (Stockholm), M.A. (UCC) “Mothering Special Needs: An Ethnographic Study of Mothers of Learning Disabled Children in Ireland” (Department of Applied Social Studies, UCC).

Kirwan, Padraig, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Native Landscapes: Ecological Patterns in Native American Literature” (Department of English, UCD).

Laragy, Georgina, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “A Cultural History of Suicide in Ireland, 1840-1923” (Department of Modern History NUIM).

Leneghan, Francis, B.A. (TCD) “The Prologue to Beowolf” (School of English, TCD).

Lennon, Hilary, B.A., M.A. (NUIG) “Frank O’Connor 1930-1945” (English Department, TCD).

Lonergan, Patrick, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Internationalisation and Regionalisation in Contemporary Irish Writing” (Department of Modern English, NUIG).

Lorenzoni, Giulia, Dottore in Lingue e Letterature Straniere (Bologna), H.Dip.Ed. “From Utopia to Dystopia: The Family in Contemporary Irish Writing” (Department of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama, UCD).

McAleer, John, B.A. (TCD) “The Imperial Construction of Africa in the Colonial Landscape Imagery of Mid-Victorian Britain” (Department of The History of Art, TCD).



McAvinue, Laura, B.A. (TCD) “The Phantom Limb Phenomenon: Its Rehabilitation and Application to Brain Plasticity” (Department of Psychology, TCD).

McBrinn, Joseph, M.A. (Glasgow), M.A. (NCAD) “Mural Painting in Dublin 1850-1950” (NCAD).

Mac Carthaigh, Sean-Pol, B.A. (UCC) “Portrait of a Mind: Maurice Moynihan and Irish Statehood” (Department Of History, UCC).

McCarthy, Joanne, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “The Experience of Disability: Discourses of Social Disablement” (Department of Sociology, TCD).

MacDermott, Eithne, B.A., M.A. (NUIG) “Reform Communism and National Identity in Czechoslovakia 1956-1970” (Department of Modern History, TCD).

McGettigan, Darren, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Red Hugh O’Donnell and the Nine Years War” (Combined Department of History, UCD).

MacHale, Catherine, B.Sc., M.A.Qual. (UCC) “Infinity in Language and Literature” (Department of English, UCC).

McHugh, Jason, B.A.(Hons), HDip.Ed., M.A. (UCD) “Bishop Nicholas French of Ferns (1604-78): A Biography” (History Department, NUIG).

McMurry, Nicholas, B.A. (TCD), M.A. Qual. (UCC) “Le Due Passioni, A Study and Critical Edition of a Viennese Sepolcro” (Department of Music, UCC).

Maguire, Mark, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “On the Other side of the Hyphen: A Comparative Analysis of Identity in Vietnamese-Irish Children” (Department of Anthropology, NUIM).

Maguire, Theresa, B.Sc., M.A. (UCC) “Adult Numeracy Tutor Education and Training: A Theory-based Approach to Programme Development” (CAMET, UL).

Mallon, Rosemary, BCL. (UCD) “A Comparative Study of the Treatment of the Hague Convention on International Child Abduction” (Faculty of Law, UCD).

Mealey, Ann Marie, B.A.Th. (St. Patrick’s College Maynooth), M.A. (La Sorbonne Catholique Institute) “The Proprium of Ethical Decision Making in a Christian Context” (Theology Faculty, St. Patrick’s College Maynooth).

Molloy, Barry, B.A.(TCD) “Bronze Age Weapons and Warfare in Europe: An Experimental Archaeological Study” (Classics Department, UCD).

Monagle, James, B.A., M.A.Qual., M.A. (NUIM) “Producing Cities: Regime Analysis of the Discursive Regimes that Shape the Production of Space in Kilkenny and Ennis” (Geography Department, NUIM).

Moriarty, Elaine, B.Soc.Sc. (UCC), M.Phil. (TCD) “Intellectual Discourses of Irishness and Otherness” (Department of Sociology TCD).

Mulholland, Peter J., B.A. (King’s College, London) M.A. (Queens University, Belfast) “Holistic Healing and the spread of New Age Beliefs in Ireland” (Department of Anthropology, NUIM).

Murphy, Patrick Alan, B.A. (TCD) “How do Multinational Enterprises Allocate Jobs? Evidence from Firm Level Data” (Department of Economics, TCD).

Murphy, Kenneth, B.A. (NUIM), M.A. (London) “Public Service Broadcasting and Communications Policy in the Digital Age: The Case of Ireland” (School of Communications, DCU).

Murphy, Kevin, B.A., M.Sc. (TCD) “Hardware and Software Development of Real-Time Functional Imaging” (Psychology Department, TCD).

Murphy, Sinead, B.A., M.A., H.Dip.Ed. (UCC) “Historically–Effected Interpretation” (Department of Philosophy, UCC).

Murphy, William, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “Irish Political Prisoners 1910-1945” (Combined Departments of History, UCD).

Murray, Maire Aislinn, B.A. (TCD), Dip.Psych. of Criminal Beahaviour (NCI) “Unravelling the Processes Involved in Insight Problem - Solving” (Department of Psychology, TCD).

Murray, Michael, B.A. (NUIM) M.A. (DCU) “Waste Management in Ireland: A Case Study on the Impact of Transnationalisation on Governance” (Department of Sociology, NUIM).

Neff, Eleanor Mary, B.A. (UCC) “A Comparative Study of Beowulf and the Tain Bo Cuailnge” (Celtic Civilisation Department and English Department, UCC).

Nic Carthaigh, Gearoidin, B.A. (UL), M.A.(UCC), “Scealaiocht na mBan Duibhneach” (Department of Modern Irish, UCC).

Ni Ghallchobair, Eithne, B.A. (NUIG), MSc (Edinburgh), “An Edition of a 16th Century Manuscript” (Department of Irish, NUIG).

O’Brien, Sharon, B.A., M.A. (DCU) “Translatability in a Controlled Language Environment” (SALIS, DCU).

O’Brien, Thomas, B.A. (All Hallows), M.A. (NUIM) “An Epistemological Exploration of the Treatment and Rehabilitation Process for Young Adult’s Recovering from Heroin Addiction, while participating in the Crinan Youth Project, in the North-East Inner City of Dublin” (Centre for Adult and Community Education, NUIM).

O’Broin, Maire, B.A., H.Dip.Ed. (UCC), B.A. (NUIG) “Vineta in the Baltic: The Motif of the Sunken City” (German Department, NUIG).

O’Connor, Aileen, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “An Economic Evaluation of Allocation Methods which Impact Upon Higher Education in Ireland” (Department of Economics, NUIM).

O’Connor, Blaze, B.A., M.A. (Auckland) “Prehistoric Petroglyphs in the Archaeological Landscape: Contextualising Sites in Ireland and the United Kingdom” (Department of Archaeology, UCD).

O’Connor, Paul, B.A. (UCC) “Sensibility & Romanticism: The Poetics of Modernity” (Department of English, UCC).

O’Donaghue, Elizabeth, B.A. (NUIG) “Colonising the Past: The Emergence of the Antiquarian Study of the Past” (Department of Archaeology, NUIG).

Ó’Donghaile, Deaghlán, B.A. (TCD) “The Imagination of Urban Chaos: Representations of Urban Terrorism in Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction” (School of English, TCD).

O’Hanrahan, Aengus, B.A. (UL) “E-Commerce Law in Ireland: A Comparative Perspective” (School of Law, UL).

O’Hora, Denis, B.A. (UCC) “A Novel Conceptual and Empirical Approach to the Experimental Analysis of Instructional Control” (Department of Psychology, NUIM).

Olcese, Giovanni, B.A., Diploma de Licence (Montpelier), H.Dip. (NUIM) “Globalisation and Minority Languages: A Case Study of Provencal and Irish” (Department of Geography, NUIM).

O’Niell, Ailbhe, LL.B (TCD), LL.M (Cambridge) “Companies and the Irish Constitution” (Faculty of Law, TCD).

O’Reilly, John, B.A., M.A.Qual., M.A. (UCD) “A Contemporary Approach to the Synthetic A Priori” (Department of Philosophy, UCD).

O’Riordan, Thomas Anthony, B.A., M.Phil., H.Dip.Ed. (UCC) “Pre-Famine Famines: Harvest variability, dietary change and Subsistence crises in 18th century Ireland” (Department of History, UCC).

Orschel, Vera, Zwischenprüfung (Mainz), B.A., M.A. (NUIG) “Intellectual Exchanges between Ireland and Europe from the 7th to the 12th Centuries: Personalities and Places” (Department of History, NUIG).

O’Sullivan, Loretta, B.A. (TCD) “The Dublin Housing Market: Inflation Determinants and Policy Aspects” (Economics Department, TCD).

O’Sullivan, Michael, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “Where is the Ethics in Ethical Criticism?” (English Department, UCC).

O’Sullivan, Michelle, B.A. (UL) “An Investigation into the Operation of Joint Labour Committees and their Relationship with Centralised Wage Agreements” (Department of Personnel & Employment Relations, UL).

O’Tuairisg, Lochlainn, B.A., M.A. (NUIG) “Agrarian Societies in Pre-Famine Ireland” (Department of History, UCD).

Owens, Antonia, B.A. (St. Patrick’s College), M.A. (DCU) “An Exploration of the Links Between Male Identity and the Development of Men’s Community Education in Ireland” (Educational Disadvantage Support Unit, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra).

Pairalo, Anna, B.A., M.A. (University Of Zaragoza) “Studying Creative Writing Theory and Practice: Bridging the Gap Between Teaching and Learning” (English Department, NUIG).

Palcic, Dónal, B.BS. (UL) “The Political Economy of Privatisation in Ireland: Rival Explanations of Progress to Date” (Economics Department, UL).

Patton, John Martin, B.A., (NUIM) “Elite Irish Catholic Families, 1820-80” (Department of Modern History, NUIM).

Pierse, Mary, B.A. (UCC) “Rattling the Railings: George Moore’s Creative Literary Resistance to Late – Victorian Society” (Department Of English, UCC).

Pine, Emilie, B.A. (TCD) “The Sublime in Irish Film and Drama” (Department of Drama, TCD).

Quartermain, Jeremy Alexander, B.A. (Cambridge University), M.A. (TCD) “A Study of 11th Century Byzantine Papal Relations with Particular Reference to the Joint Greek and Latin Monastic Communities Established in the West” (Department of Medieval History, TCD).

Rankin, Kieran, B.A.., M.S.c. (University of London), "The Evolution and Entrenchment of the Irish Border, 1911-1926: A Political Geography" (Department of Geography, UCD).

Reidy, Eileen Theresa, B.A., M.Sc. (UCC) “The Case for Political Budget Cycles” (Department of Government, UCC).

Roche, Helen, B.A., M.A. (UCD) “A Study of Bronze Age Coarse Ware in Ireland” (Department of Archaeology, UCD).

Ronnes, Hanneke, M.A. (UCD), M.A. (Amsterdam) M.A. (Free University) “Domestic Architecture of Polite Culture in Ireland, AD 1550-1650, and its International Context: A Study in Comparative Social Archaeology” (Department of Archaeology, UCD).

Roycroft, Maria Pizzuti, Dip. Fine Art (DIT), M.A. (UCD) “Matter, the Maker and the Made. An Exploration of the Relationship Between the Artist and his Medium” (Department of Philosophy, UCD).

Ryan, Dermot, B.A.(Hons) (NUIM), H.Dip.Psych. (UCD) “Psychological Distress among Asylum Seekers in Dublin” (Department of Psychology, UCD).

Ryan, Eoin, B.E., B.A., M.Eng.Sc. (UCD) “Intentionality and Narrativity: A Critique of Daniel Dennet” (Department of Philosophy, UCD).

Ryan, Kevin, B.A. (NUIG) “The Category of Social Exclusion: Culture, Identity, Ontology” (Department of Sociology and Political Science, NUIG).

Ryan, Raymond, B.A., M.A. (UCC) “Farmers, Agriculture and Politics in the Irish Free State Area, 1919-1936” (Department of History, UCC).

Sayers, Brian, B.A. (NUIM) “John O’Mahony: Fenian, Chieftan and Scholar, 1815-77” (Department of Modern History, NUIM).

Scahill, Adrian, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) M.A. (Q.U.B) “The Authenticity of Accompaniment in Traditional Irish Music” (Music Department, UCD).

Scarlett, Neville, B.A. (UCC) “A Comparative Study of Czech and Irish Nationalism – Literature and Theatre 1870-1920” (Department of History, UCC).

Schot, Roseanne, B.A. (NUIG) “The Hill of Uisneach in Archaeology and History” (Department of Archaeology, NUIG).

Scobie, William, B.A., M.Phil. (UCC) “The Late Medieval Rondeau: Style, Register and Genre” (Music Department, UCC).

Sheehan, Cormac, B.A., M.A. (NUIM) “Suicide and Self-Harming Behaviour in Dublin: Empirical Phenomena, Social Concomitants and Cultural Meanings” (Department of Anthropology, NUIM).

Sibley, Christopher, B.A., M.A. (UCD), P.Grad.Dip. (TCD) “Understanding Inequality and Growth: Using the Transition Process in Poland as a Natural Experiment” (Department of Ecomomics, TCD).

Solon, Eleanor, B.A., M.A.Qual., M.A. (UCC) “A Comparative Analysis of the Management, Development and Promotion of Recreational Angling Resources of Lough Derg and Lough Corrib: Prospects for Tourist Development” (Geography Department, UCC).

Speed, Ewen, B.A. (Glasgow Caledonian University), M.Sc. (Strathclyde) “An Investigation into Mental Health Service Users and Mental Health Service Users Social Movements in the Republic of Ireland” (Department of Sociology, TCD).

Strapatsas, Nicolaos, LLB (Montreal), LLM (NUIG) “The International Criminal Court: A New World Order?” (Centre for Human Rights, NUIG).

Strati, Irene, B.Sc. (Pisa) “Historical Geographies of Dublin City Parks” (Department of Geography, TCD).

Stuart, Alan, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (UCD) “Industrial Specialisation and Trade Liberalisation between the European Union and Eastern Europe” (Department of Economics, UCD).

Sundlöv, Eva Birgitta, B.A. (UCD) “Paternal Involvement in Childcare: Ireland and Sweden Compared” (Department of Psychology, UCD).

Sullivan, Paul, B.A., H.Dip.Ed. (UCC) “The Experience of Artists making Art” (Department of Psychology, UCC).

Swan, Davina, B.A. (DCU) H.Dip. (UCC) “Understanding the Experience of Creative Writing” (Department of Applied Psychology, UCC).

Taaffe, Carol, B.A. (TCD), M.A. (York) “Brian O’Nolan and Irish Cultural Debate” (Department of English, TCD).

Tobin, Emma Mary, B.A. (UCD) “Dennett’s Intentional Stance and Quine’s Indeterminacy Thesis” (Department of Philosophy, TCD).

Torrance, Isabelle, B.A. (TCD) “Iphigenia in Tauris and Euripidean Tragedy” (Classics Department, TCD).

Treacy, Matthew, B.A. (TCD) “The Politics of the Republican Movement, 1962-1969” (Department of Modern History, TCD).

Van Egeraat, Christiaan, Propedeutisch Examen, (Utrecht University) “New High Volume Production Concepts and Geographical Configuration of Production Networks” (Business School, DCU).

Vitale, Agata, Masters (Palermo) “Analysing the Relational Frame of Comparison: Developmental and Intervention Studies” (Department of Psychology, NUIM).

Verstraten, Freya, Doctoraal Examen (Groningen) “Anglicisation in Medieval Ireland” (Department of Medieval History, TCD).

Warner, Tracy, B.A., H.Dip. (NUIM) “Cead Mile Failte? Refugees and the Lower Working Class in Ireland” (Department of Sociology, NUIM).

Weston, Celia, B.Sc. (North London) “Can Bureaucracies Create Enterprise” (Department of Management and Marketing, UCC).

Whelan, Owen, M.B.S (University of Limerick) "A Study of E-Commerce Evaluation Techniques in Irish Indigenous Companies" (Centre for Information & Knowledge Management, University of Limerick).

Whelton, Marie, B.A. (St, Patrick’s College, Maynooth), H.Dip.Ed. (NUIM) M.A. (NUIM,) “Apostrophe in Irish Poetry” (Department of Modern Irish, NUIM).

Winters, Marion, Diplom über setzerin (Heidelberg) “A Corpus-Based Investigation of Creativity in Source and Translated Texts” (School of Applied Language and Intercultural Studies, DCU).

Yvard, Catherine, B.A. (TCD) “From the Scribe to the Press: A Study of French Books of Hours (1400-1571) Present in Dublin Libraries” (Art History Department, TCD)