'IRCHSS Awards' - Scheme 1: Postgraduate Scholarship 2007

Assessment Board Members

• Professor Robert Pearce,
  (Chair of Board)
  Vice-Chancellor,
  University of Wales, Lampeter.
• Dr Simon Ball,
  Department of History,
  University of Glasgow
• Professor Arnd Bohm,
  Department of English,
  Carleton University, Ottawa.
• Professor Martin Carver,
  Department of Archaeology,
  University of York.
• Professor Ann Davis,
  Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Mental Health,
  University of Birmingham.
• Professor Istemi Demirag,
  School of Management and Economics,
  Queen’s University Belfast.
• Professor Fiona Devine,
  School of Sociology,
  University of Manchester.
• 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.
• Dr. Keith Halfacre,
  Department of Geography,
  University of Wales, Swansea.
• Dr. Patrick Hanafin,
  School of Law,
  Birkbeck, University of London.
• Professor Miltiades Hatzopoulos,
  Reseach Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity,
  National Hellenic Research Foundation, Greece.
• Professor Raymond Hickey,
  School of Linguistics,
  University of Essen, Germany
• Professor Marjorie Howes,
  Department of English,
  Boston College.
• Professor Peter Messent,
  School of American and Canadian Studies,
  University of Nottingham.
• Professor Tomás Ó Cathasaigh,
  Department of Celtic Languages & Literature,
  Harvard University.
• Professor Alan Petersen,
  School of Sociology,
  University of Plymouth.
• Professor Michael Power,
  Section of Clinical & Health Psychology,
  Medical School, Edinburgh.
• Professor Keith Reader,
  School of Modern Languages,
  University of Glasgow
• Professor Jim Samson,
  Department of Music,
  Royal Holloway,
  University of London.
• Professor Rob Savage
  Director, Irish Studies,
  Boston College.
• Dr. Tanja Staehler,
  Department of Philosophy,
  University of Sussex.
• Professor Peter Weinreich,
  School of Psychology,
  University of Ulster, Jordanstown.
• Dr. Shane Weller,
  School of European and Cultural Languages,
  University of Kent.
• Professor Irene Whelan,
  Director, Irish Studies,
  Manhattan Ville College.

Postgraduate scholarships were awarded to the following applicants for 2007-8:

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

Jemimah Bailey TCD Parental experiences of infant feeding.

A.Valeria Ballarotti NUIG Mussolini’s women on screen: Femininity, Fascisms and Film (1945-1980).

Gillian Boazman UCC Theme and variations: Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland.

Christopher Borsing TCD Daniel Defoe's Novel Enterprise: Speculative Exchanges.

Lydia Frances Buckley UCC Placing the Criminal Law Relating to Child Sexual Abuse in Context: A Socio-Legal Analysis of the Law in Ireland.

Sarah-Anne Buckley UCC In the Eyes of the Law”: Class, gender and violent crime in Ireland, 1922-45.

Julie Byrne NUIM Output Collapses: Why Does Africa Suffer The Most?

Anne Marie Byrne SPD Juvenile Detention in Ireland – A Pathway to Reintegration or Recidivism?

Joanne Byrne UCD Gaeilge Chliste nó Gaeilge Bhriste: Emerging Forms of Irish in the Modern Gaelscoil Setting.

Sarah Campbell UCD ‘New’ Nationalism and the 'Scab of Civil Rights': The Development of Constitutional Nationalism in Northern Ireland, post-1969.

Treasa Campbell MIC Naturalized Epistemology and Normativity: A Humean Solution.

Ruth A. Canning UCC The Nine Years War and Old English Identity in Elizabethan Ireland, 1594-1603.

Nicola Carr TCD A Study of Traveller Children in the Criminal Justice System in Ireland.

Brian Joseph Casey NUIM A reappraisal of landlordism in Ireland: A case study of the Clancarty estate, east Galway, 1851-1914.

Maria Cassidy UCC Traveller Mothers’ Perceptions About the Health of Their Children.

Úna-Frances Clarke UCD The development of symphonic sonata form from Mahler to Shostakovich.

Marie Frances Clynes UCD Changing Professional Development Needs of Teachers: An International Perspective on Teachers, Academics and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) providers.

Robert James Comber UCC Digital Expression: Exploring Online Communities of Expression as Communities of Practice.

Aidan Corcoran TCD The Consumption Correlation Puzzle

Brian Coughlan NUIM Achill Island: Migration to and Settlement in Cleveland, Ohio (1820-1960).

Yvonne Crowe DCU A Genealogy of Irish Branding.

Claire Cumiskey UCC Trafficking in persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation: the right of the victim to protection in the asylum process.

Jean Louise Cushen TCD Governance, Control and Culture in a High Tech Organisation.

Selena Daly UCD Deconstruction, Anthropomorphism and Mechanisation: From the Prima Scapigliatura Milanese (1860-1870) to Italian Futurist Theatre (1905-1925).

John Danaher UCC Voluntary and Involuntary Actions in the Criminal Law: A Re-evaluation of the Defences of Automatism and Diminished Responsibility from a Neurophilosophical Perspective.

Brian Dolan UCD The Social and Technological Context OF Ironworking in Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100.

Claire Downes TCD Sustainable Development and Dispersed Rural Housing: An Analysis of Policy and Practice.

Niamh Doyle UCC Pottery Production and Consumption in Ireland in the 12th-16th Century.

Elsa Marie Droog UL Hospital of the Future. Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness in Irish Hospitals: The Role of Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) Practices.

Conal Duddy NUIG Social competition, reference-dependence and economic rights.

Annabel Egan NUIG EU Human Rights Policy in Action: The Case of China.

Emer Fahy UCC An Ethnographic Study of Women Quiltmakers in Ireland.

Roja Fazaeli NUIG A Comparative and Critical Study of International Human Rights Law and Islamic Law Concerning Women in the Shi’a Tradition.

Orla Feeney DCU The role of the management accountant in new product and new process development.

Eoin Flaherty NUIM Motorways and Environmental Developments as Complex Entities: Their Physical, Social and Ecological Functions in Modern Irish Society.

Gráinne Foley UCC Baudrillard and Threat in the Contemporary World.

Mary Caroline Gallagher NUIM Church Building and Rebuilding in the Diocese of Meath during the episcopate of Thomas Lewis O'Beirne 1798-1823.

Niall Gillespie TCD Irish Jacobin literature, c. 1790-1820.

Patrick Given NUIM Calico to Whiskey: A Case Study on the Development of a Modern Distilling Industry in the Naas Excise Collection District, 1700-1860.

Kathleen Máire Hamel UCC The Reception of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the Literature and Art of 20th Century France.

Gillian Harold UCC Cities Without Sound; Re-spacing the geographies of urban deaf experience.

Richard Anthony Hawtree UCC Vox Meditans: Studies in the Anglo-Saxon Liturgical Imagination and the Unity of Old English Poetic Manuscripts.

Jason C Healy DCU Ethics in the Football Industry

Robert Hensey NUIG Ritual and Belief in the Passage Tomb Tradition of Ireland.

Claire Hogan TCD Islam and the Irish Legal System: A Comparative Analysis with Britain, France and Germany.

Veronica Johnson NUIG The representation and role of the unconscious in film: from Bunuel to Kieslowski.

Neil Johnston UCD Court and Country against the Castle: a study of the principal Catholic Palesmen and their manipulation of patronage networks in promoting their interests in Post-Cromwellian Ireland.

Michael James Kane NUIM Dialann Phríosúin Sheáin a’ Chóta.

Gordon James Kennedy SPD ‘The Brownes of Westport House: Aristocracy, Politics and the Exercise of Power in Mayo: 1796-1846’

Victoria Kennefick UCC Lonely Voices of the South: Exploring the Transatlantic dialogue of Frank O’Connor and Flannery O’Connor.

Aisling Kenny NUIM Josephine Lang and Her Poets.

Cathal Kilcline NUIG Sport and identity in Mediterranean France: Construction and Representation.

Péter Komáromy UCD Dimensions of Givenness: between Jean-Luc Marion and Jacques Derrida.

Soultana Kosmidou UCD Remembering and Forgetting Conflict: The Cultural Memory of Civil War in Post-1989 European Cinema.

Chris Lawlor SPD The establishment and evolution of an Irish village: the case of Dunlavin, County Wicklow 1650-1900.

Marie Susan Leahy UCC Defining Consent: Reform of Sexual Offences Legislation in Ireland.

Madeleine Lyes UCD Writing Urbanity: Urban Literature and Theory During the Golden Era of the New Yorker Magazine.

Clodagh Lynch NUIG Roman Hoards in Ireland Nicola Lynch UL Business Networking in Ireland: Developing an Evaluation Framework.

Aoileann Lyons UCC Historical literary analysis of the poetry of Eduardo Pondal within the context of nineteenth-century Galician and European regionalism.

Michelle Mangan MIC Epidemics, Disease and Medicine in Limerick City 1800-45.

Claire Mansfield UCC Community Development in Ireland: A Tool for Sustainability?

James Matthews UCD Increasing Physical Activity in At Risk Groups…Exploring Self Regulation in Action.

Niamh McCrea UCD Managing Migrant Rights: NGOs, Philanthropy and Public Policy in Ireland’.

Daragh McDermott NUIG Measuring Implicit and Explicit Homonegativity and the Efficacy of Interventions Designed to Reduce Negative Attitudes Toward Gay Men and Lesbian Women.

Emily McElroy TCD The Fitzwilliam episode: a multi-layered examination of the viceroyalty of Lord Fitzwilliam.

Niall McInerney TCD Essays on the Effects of Globalisation on Inflation.

Kevin McKenna NUIM Power, resistance, and ritual; landlord-tenant relations on the Clonbrock estate 1849- 1917.

Eóin McLaughlin NUIM Microcredit in Ireland: 1860 – 1914.

Jacqueline Mulhall DCU The censorship of women’s literary production in Franco’s Spain. A study to elaborate the societal norms which influenced the moral censorship of the novela neorrealista femenina - 1951-1963.

Karen Murphy UCD Religious and Cultural Freedom in the ‘Age of Terror’: An Exploration of the Balance between the Preservation of Human Rights and National Security”.

Léan Ní Chléirigh TCD 12th Century Western Attitudes Towards Byzantium.

Máire Ní Íceadha UCC The Political Vision Poetry of Eoghan Ruadh Ua Súilleabháin.

Mary Louise O' Donnell UL Custodians of Culture: A Social, Musicological and Cultural History of the Irish Harp and its Patronage from 1790-1840.

Darren O' Donovan UCC The Irish Travelling Community, Cultural Claims and Minority Rights: The protection of Travellers’ nomadic identity under international human rights law.

Diana O' Dwyer DCU Global Civil Society and Global Governance: Reform or Transformation?

Séin Ó Muineacháin TCD Investigation into the relationship between institutional design and factions of political parties

Suzanne O' Neill TCD ‘The Architectural and Cultural Reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its Frieze.’

Aileen O' Reilly UCD The Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation of International Third-Level Students in Ireland: A Longitudinal Study.

Tonaí Ó Roduibh NUIG Prices and Inflation in Dublin during the Price Revolution and Colonial Period, c.1500-1641.

Helen O' Sullivan TCD A Study of 'Mundigkeit' and Symbolic Power in Language acquisition as Represented in Language Learners Memoirs

Patrick O'Brien UCD A Glosser in Paradise: mendicant disciples of crooked interpretation in colonial Ireland.

Sarah O'Brien MIC Irish Associational Culture and Identity in Birmingham after World War II. Sam O'Brien UCD Policing and Race in Contemporary Ireland.

Paloma Pérez-Valdés UCD From Postmodernism to Neomodernism in the Contemporary Spanish Novel: Carmen Martín Gaite´s Nubosidad variable, Rosa Regàs’ Azul and Soledad Puértolas’ Queda la noche.

John Power WIT Revisiting Congruence: The Interplay Between Human and Brand Personality.

Eoghan Quigley TCD Harm Reduction in Irish Healthcare: Policy and Provision for Illicit Drug Users 1996-2006.

Kathy Reilly NUIG Opportunity, Perception and Regional Social Reproduction: The Role of Compulsory and Non Compulsory Education in the E.U.

Maria Ridge UCD An Exploration of Refugee, Asylum Seeking and Migrant Women’s (RASMW) Access to and Experiences of Abortion in Ireland.

Elaine Riordan UL Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in Language Teacher Education (LTE) for Critical Reflection Within a Community of Practising Student Teachers.

Katherine Ellen Roddy TCD Anti-Clerical Satire and Literary Form 1380-1558.

Jim Rogers DCU Law, Broadcasting and the Shaping of the Domestic Recording Market.

Marisa Ronan UCD Evangelising Postmodernism: Christian Fiction and the Pursuit of a New Evangelical Christianity.

Vivien Rooney UCC The impact of technology on social relationships: Can intimate relationships be continued in cyberspace?

James Ryan UCC Lenin’s Terror: an assessment of the significance of ideology for soviet state violence, 1917-1923.

Martin Ryan UCD A Microeconomic Analysis of Ph.D. Outcomes: Returns to Education, Educational Mismatch and Satisfaction with Educational Attainment.

Lorraine Ryan UL The Empowerment of Republican Memory in Spain’s New Historical Novel.

Gwendolyn Scarbrough IT Sligo Public houses in Ireland: A genuine ‘Third Place’? A case study of pubs and public drinking in the North West of Ireland.

Jonathan Schachter TCD The Puzzle of Public Health Policy

Rosalinde Schut UCD Restoration Literati: A critical assessment of the Dublin Castle coterie, 1662-1663.

Máire Áine Sheehan UCC Annihilation or Survival? The Gaelic Professional Classes, 1580s – 1620s.

Linda Shine TCD Interactions between the Anglo-Normans and the Gaelic-Irish; the settlement evidence in the baronies of Iverk, county Kilkenny and Clanmahon, county Cavan in the high and later medieval periods.

Peter Slattery UCD Motor Cognition in Action: Exploring the relationship between Expertise and Visual Search Strategies.

Alan D. Sloane UCC Rural Broadband – Globally Connected and Locally Disconnected?

Heather Stedman TCD The Duke of Wellington, Empire and Monumental Landscapes.

John Toner UCD How does reinvestment contribute to the breakdown of skilled performance under pressure?

Matthew Wall TCD An empirical investigation of the relationship between public opinion, electoral systems and the dispersion of parties’ policy positions.

Martin Wall UCC Ireland and the European Economic Community, 1973-1977

Ciarán Wallace TCD Dublin Municipal Politics 1898 to 1924

Maria Walls NUIG Comparative analysis on the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities across diverse jurisdictions.

David Whelan UCD Landscape, settlement and society in west Waterford,AD1600-1900:an historical archaeology

Karl Whitney UCD OuLiPo and the Situationist International: A History of Everyday Life.

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