Mary Immaculate Research Repository: Recent submissions
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A review of 'The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808–1892). Bringing World Literature to France, by Wendy S. Mercer' (Pre-published version)
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Envy, jealousy, guilt and the construction of whiteness in contemporary Hollywood sport films
(2018-11-29)Taking a psychoanalytic approach the paper argues that envy of the supposedly natural ability of African American athletes and jealous resentment of their social and cultural status underpin such Hollywood sport themed ... -
Response surface designs using the generalized variance inflation factors
(Cogent OA, 2015)We study response surface designs using the generalized variance inflation factors for subsets as an extension of the variance inflation factors. -
A review of 'Népomucène Louis Lemercier, Christophe Colomb.' By Vincenzo de Santis (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2016) -
A review of 'French Romantic Travel Writing: Chateaubriand to Nerval' by C. W. Thompson (Pre-published version)
(Oxford University Press, 2013) -
“The door” stands open: liminal spaces in the later Heaney (Pre-print version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Introduction: "The soul exceeds its circumstances": the later poetry of Seamus Heaney (Pre-published version)
(University of Notre Dame Press, 2016) -
Ireland's participation in the 50th international mathematical olympiad
(Irish Mathematical Society, 2009)The 50th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) took place in Bremen (Germany) from 12th July until 22nd July 2009. With 565 participants (59 of whom were girls) from 104 countries, this was the IMO with the largest ... -
Minimizing oblique errors for robust estimating
(Irish Mathematical Society, 2008)The slope of the best fit line from minimizing the sum of the squared oblique errors is shown to be the root of a polynomial of degree four. We introduce a median estimator for the slope and, using a case study, we show ... -
Are Irish passport applicants in Britain becoming ‘more Irish’?
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We must guarantee a genuine Irish welcome for our returning diaspora (Pre-published version)
(The Irish Times, 2012) -
Loyalists and loyalism in a southern Irish community, 1921– 22 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2016)A second Irish Grants Committee met for the first time in October 1926 to deal with claims for compensation from distressed southern Irish loyalists. By the time it had ceased its work, the committee had dealt with over ... -
'Make the terror behind greater than the terror in front'? Internal discipline, forced participation, and the I.R.A., 1919–21 (pre-published version)
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)This article will explore two relatively neglected features of the Irish Republican Army’s (I.R.A.) guerrilla war between 1919 and 1921: internal discipline and forced participation. The gravest disciplinary measure was ... -
Towards the development of all-island spatial databases
(Regional Studies Association, 2007) -
Mathematical under-preparedness: The influence of the pre-tertiary mathematics experience on students’ ability to make a successful transition to tertiary level mathematics courses in Ireland (Pre-published version)
(Taylor & Francis, 2007)Internationally, the consequences of the ‘Mathematics problem’ are a source of concern for the education sector and governments alike. Growing consensus exists that the inability of students to successfully make the ... -
Exploring the spiritual dimension of the school curriculum (Pre-published version)
(Peter Lang, 2012)