'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 1: Postgraduate Scholarship 2006

Assessment Board Members

• Professor Robert Pearce,
  (Chair of Board)
  Vice-Chancellor,
  University of Wales, Lampeter.
• Professor Arnd Bohm,
  Department of English,
  Carleton University, Ottawa.
• Professor Martin Carver,
  Department of Archaeology,
  University of York.
• Dr. Marie Coleman,
  School of History & Anthropology,
  Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Istemi Demirag,
  School of Anthropological Studies,
  Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Hastings Donnan,
  School of Anthropological Studies,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Richard English,
  School of Politics and International Studies,
  The Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Tony Gallagher,
  School of English,
  Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Norman Ginsburg,
  Department of Applied Social Studies,
  London Metropolitan University.
• Professor Marjorie Howes,
  Department of English,
  Boston College.
• Professor Brian Ilbery,
  School of Science and the Environment,
  Coventry University.
• Dr. Ronan McDonald,
  School of English and American Literature,
  University of Reading.
• Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh,
  Department of Celtic Languages & Literature,
  Harvard University.
• Dr. Jacqueline O’Reilly,
  Reader in Sociology,
  University of Sussex.
• Professor Roger Pearson,
  Professor of French,
  The Queen's College,
  Oxford.
• Professor Michael Power,
  Section of Clinical & Health Psychology,
  Medical School, Edinburgh.
• Professor Jim Samson,
  Department of Music,
  Royal Holloway,
  University of London.
• Professor Rob Savage
  Director, Irish Studies,
  Boston College.
• Professor Jo Shaw,
  The School of Law,
  University of Edinburgh.
• Dr. John Skåtun,
  Senior Lecturer in Economics,
  University of Aberdeen.
• Dr. Tanja Staehler,
  Department of Philosophy,
  University of Sussex.
• Professor Peter Weinreich,
  School of Psychology,
  University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
• Dr. Clare Willsdon
  Department of History of Art,
  University of Glasgow.

Postgraduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2006-7:

A B C D E F G H - K L M Mc N O P - R S - W

Mr Michael Anderson - UCD
An Analysis of Shifting Loyalist Identities among Three Generations of Working Class Protestants in East Antrim

Ms Anne Boden - TCD
Third Reich Diaries: their publication and reception in Cold War and post Cold War Germany

Ms Anne-Marie Brady - TCD
A study of Transition Experiences, Career Expectations and Intent to Stay among Degree Graduate Nurses

Ms Karen Buckley - UL
Social Forces for Change or Consolidation? The Intersection of Regionalism and Multilateralism with Globalisation

Ms Catherine Burke - UCC
The reception of Homer in twentieth-century French Literature

Ms Marian Cadogan - UCC
Processes of Immigrant Inclusion and Exclusion

Mr. Colm Caffrey - DCU
Cognitive implications on the non-Japanese viewer of scenes that present culture specific non-verbal communication (NVC) in subtitled Japanese films.

Ms Jennifer Carroll - UCD
Governing the Judiciary: Independence and Accountability in Ireland

Ms Katrina Clerkin - UCD
The language of Desire in the Poetry of Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill

Ms Melanie Clune - UCD
Nature, extent, impact of, and recovery from Prospective Memory deficit in Traumatic Brain Injury

Ms Phyllis Marie Comerford - UCC
The role of NGOs in the enforcement of environmental law in Ireland

Ms Mairéad Conneely - UL
“ Island and Identity: A Postcolonial and Utopian Analysis of Aran Island Writing”

Mr Juan Pablo Cortez- Dieguez - UCC
Developing Online Dispute Resolution in the European Union for Consumer Electronic Contracts

Mr Rory Costello - TCD
Explaining EU Foreign Policy: an analysis of decision-making on issues relating to Latin America

Ms Arlene Crampsie - TCD
Rural District Councils in Ireland, 1898- 1925: A Historical Geography

Mr Ronan Crowley - TCD
Joyce’s Scribblings: “Circe” in 1920-21

Mr John Cunningham - NUIG
The Transplantation to Connacht 1652-1675

Mr Eamon Darcy - TCD
1641 Depositions and Contemporary Print Culture

Mr Thomas Donaghy - UCD
Breeding Horses in the Greco-Persian World

Mr Killian Driscoll - UCD
Understanding quartz technology in early prehistoric Ireland

Ms Marcella Duffy - DCU
Lesbian Women’s Lived Experiences of the Irish Health Care System

Ms Stephanie Egan - NUIG
Geographies of Domination/Resistance: IPSC as a Protesting Community

Ms Eimear Enright - UL
Co-constructing a Physical Education Curriculum: Participatory Action Research with Adolescent Girls

Mr Sebastiano Ferrari - NUIG
Language, poetry and music in the Italian “cantautori” tradition

Ms Marian Flanagan - DCU
Recycling Texts: Testing the limits of Example-Based Machine Translation (EBMT) in the translation of DVD subtitles

Ms Caitríona Foley - UCD
Ireland’s Forgotten “Plague”: the Spanish flu epidemic 1918-19

Mr Paul Gill - UCD
Political Psychology and Suicide Bombing

Ms Shirley Graham - UCD
Gender and Peacekeeping: Exploring the role of women officers in peacekeeping missions as agents of change in post-conflict societies.

Ms Helen Graham - UCD
Policing the Body: the Spectacle of Death and Disease in late Nineteenth Century Paris

Ms Lisa-Marie Griffith - TCD
Social Mobility and Dublin Merchants 1760-1785

Mr Stephen Hanaphy - TCD
The Reading of Peter of Blois: An analysis of the classical and patristic learning of a twelfth-century intellectual.

Mr Niall Hanlon - UCD
Masculine Identities and Affective Equality: a study of the role of care and love in men’s lives.

Ms Maebh Harding - UCD
The Constitutionalisation of Marriage and its Legal Effects

Mr Rory Hearne - TCD
Public Private Partnership (PPP) in the delivery of public services and infrastructure in Ireland: origins, outcomes and impacts

Ms Lucy Hearne - WIT
This study proposes to determine whether “progression” can be effectively measured within longitudinal tracking systems in adult guidance provision.

Mr Fintan Hoey - UCD
The Foreign Policy of Satô Eisaku, Prime Minister of Japan (1964-1972)

Mr Mark Jones - TCD
German and Italian Agents of Violence in the Post-War Period 1919-1922

Ms Catherine Keating - NUIG
The evolution of the Sub-Saharan African Novel by women: Senegal, Mali, Burkina Faso

Mr David Kelly - UCC
The Adoption of Open vs. Closed Interoperability Standards for Complex Network-Based information Systems: An Exploratory Study of Ambient Intelligence

Ms Marie Bridget Kelly - UCD
Revolution and Innovation in Irish Theatre: An analysis of ground breaking theatre and performance practices in the dramatic work of Tom MacIntyre

Ms Christina Kelly - UCD
A History of Sociology in Ireland

Mr Daniel Kennedy - UCC
Transgression, Textual Violation and the New Narrative

Ms Nuala Kenny - UCD
Gender and Memory in the Novels of Josefina Aldecoa:

Mr Gregory Kerr - TCD
Utopian Urbanism and Poetic Prose in Nineteenth Century France

Mr David Landy - TCD
“ Counter-hegemonic social movements in minority ethnic groups: The mobilisation of Israel-critical diaspora Jews”

Ms Susan Mary Lawlor - NUIM
Young People living with congenital anomalies in Ireland: moving beyond a medical perspective

Mr Wulf Lüdicke - TCD
“ Domenichino as Architect – An Eclecticist in informed by imitation and innovation.”

Ms Orla Lynch - UCC
Islam and Identity: The Case of Ireland and the UK

Ms Elizabeth Sarah Matthews - NUIM
Mainstreaming of Deaf Education in Ireland: An international reflection

Ms Margaret Matthews - TCD
Jane Austen and the Development of English National Identity

Mr Owen Dermot McCarney - UCD
Talking up the Tiger – A critical analysis of a decade of Irish Government discourse on emerging social issues.

Ms Elaine McDonald - DCU
Keepers of a Dangerous Memory: An Irish Perspective on the Educational Legacy of Mary Ward, Foundress of the Loreto Sisters.

Mr James McKeon - NUIG
Frontier Urban Settlement in the Plantagenet Realm 1216-1377: Studies from South Connacht

Mr Aiden McKiernan - UCD
Design and evaluation of a group cognitive-behavioural intervention for breast cancer patients in the Republic of Ireland

Ms Eileen McMahon - UL
“ Curriculum Decision-Making: The Voice of the Students”

Ms Roisin Morris - NUIG
Nursing Work: Person, Task and Context

Ms Carol Murphy - NUIM
Derived Mands of Progressive Complexity with Children with Autism: a Synthesis of Skinner’s Verbal Behaviour and Relational Frame Theory

Mr Brian Hugh Murray - TCD
Exploration Literature and Modernity

Ms Eleanor Murtagh - NUIM
The relationship between the Gaelic Irish and the Old English in the early modern period, c. 1590 to c.1650

Ms Una Newell - UCD
Evolution or revolution? Politics and the populace: County Galway 1922-1932

Ms Méabh Ní Fhuartháin - NUIG
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Eireann: Tradition and Identity.

Ms Grainne Ni Mhaille - TCD
Technology, Chronic Illness and Self: A Study of Cancer and Renal Patients

Ms Ríona Nic Congail - UCD
Anailís Chriticiúil ar shaol agus ar shaothar An Ollaimh Úna Ní Fhaircheallaigh (1874-1951) mar scoláire Gaeilge, mar oideachasóir, mar ghníomhaí polaitiúil, mar leasaitheoir sóisialta agus mar phearsa litríochta ag tús an fhiciú haois.

Ms Triona Nicholl - UCD
Houses, dwelling spaces and daily life in early medieval Ireland: an experimental archaeological approach

Ms Audrey Nicholls - UCD
Temptation and Transgression: Representations of the Adulteress in Venetian Narrative Painting 1475-1600

Mr Carl Séan O’Brien - TCD
“ Secondary Gods and Devine Mediators: Studies in the Development of the Demiurge in the Platonic, Hermetic, Gnostic and Christian Traditions.”

Ms Eaven Mary O’Brien - TCD
“ No es tragico fin sino el mas felice que se pudo dar”: Ramifications of Female Inter-relations in the Prose of Maria de Zayas

Mr John O’Callaghan - UL
County Limerick and the Irish Revolution, 1912-23

Mr Gearoid O’Donnchadha - UCD
Comhreir na Faisneise Ainmiuil sa Ghaeilge(The Syntax of Nominal Prediction in Irish)

Ms Anna Marie O’Driscoll - UCD
Constructions of Melancholy in Contemporary German Literature

Ms Ailbhe O’Flaherty - UL
Les identités en mutation. Memory and Identity in the Contemporary Mauritian Novel in French.

Ms Lynsey Rose O’Keefe - UCD
An investigation of the relationship between children’s mental health and gender stereotyping

Ms Siobhan O’Sullivan - UCC
How the Global Meets the Local: Land Reform Politics in Post-Colonial Nations

Ms Catriona O’Toole - NUIM
Derived Stimulus Relations versus Classical Conditioning: Developing a Model of Fear Acquisition and Maintenance using the Implicit Association Test and Event Related Potentials.
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Ms Christine Parsons - NUIM
The Emergence of bi-literacy in the Irish English Context

Ms Mary Phipps - NUIM
From Housewife to Domestic Goddess: An Exploration into the Significance of women’s role as food providers in a contempory Irish context.

Mr Gerald Power - NUIG
The Nobility of the English Pale in the 16th Century

Mr Jamie Power - WIT
Evaluating the Development of HRM to line managers: the case of an Irish Semi-State

Ms Sinead Aine Quirke - UCD
Architecture and Identity: The Houses of Plantation-Era Munster, c. 1580 – c. 1650

Mr Mark Michael John Raferty-Skehan - TCD
Imagination and the Sign: Mallarme as read by Derrida and the Hegelian Phenomenological Tradition

Mr Conor Reidy - UL
Becoming a “useful member of society”: an analysis of policy approaches and treatment of the young offender in the borstal system in Ireland, Clonmel 1906-21

Mr Nathan Reilly - TCD
The Unfair Commercial Practices Directive and its Impact on Irish Law

Ms Martina Relihan - UCD
The Church of Ireland and its Relationship with the Irish Language Issue within the Educational System 1922-32

Mr Andrew Rock - UL
Developmental Relationships: A management and leadership development network perspective

Ms Sarah Roddy - NUIG
A Comparison of Methodologies for the Assessment of Implicit Cognition: Comparing the IRAP with the IAT and the EAST in the assessment of Negative Attitudes to Overweight Individuals

Ms Sarah Roddy - TCD
Emigration and Irish churches in the nineteenth century

Mr Duncan George Russell - UCD
The Concept of Mythology in Adorno’s Dialectical Philosophy

Mr Paraic Joseph Scanlon - NUIM
Behavioural and Electrophysiological markers of memory in normal and abnormal ageing

Mr Andrew Smith - UCD
“ The Art of Failure, the Failure of Art: A comparative analysis of T. W. Adorno & Samuel Beckett”

Ms Jennifer Niamh Sullivan - UCD
Phrase Tones and Intermediate Phrases: their Existence or Absence with Specific Reference to Hiberno-English

Ms Eva Kristina Urban - UCD
Community and Identity in Northern Irish Drama: Political Vision and Dramatic Representation.

Mr Garret Wade - UL
A Macro and Microeconomic Expenditure Analysis of the North-American Tourist Market from an Irish Economic Perspective.

Ms Krisztina Zimanyi - DCU
Intercultural Communication in Multilingual Encounters in Contemporary Ireland: A Case Study

Funded by the Irish Government under the National Development Plan 2000-2006.