Long Room Hub: Recent submissions

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    • Flesh wounds?: new ways of understanding self-injury 

      Inckle, Kay (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      My research uses methodological and representational practices from the humanities and arts in order to develop a non-medical understanding of self-injury. The aims of the project are: to use creative practices to promote ...

    • Towards a research platform for the 1641 Depositions: new technologies and the humanities 

      LAWLESS, SEAMUS; WADE, VINCENT PATRICK; O SIOCHRU, MICHEAL (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      This project will investigate innovative technology to structure and lend meaning to a large corpus of unstructured information. The objectives of this project are: to investigate how text analytics and semantic mark-up ...

    • Second language acquisition and native language maintenance in the Polish diaspora in Ireland and France 

      Kopeckova, Romana; Singleton, David; Regan, Vera; Debaene, Ewelina (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      Since the accession of ten new member states to the EU on May 1st 2004, the Republic of Ireland has experienced a significant reversal in the direction of migration - from outward to inward. Large numbers of Polish nationals ...

    • Identity, conflict and community art 

      Guzzanti, Paula; Trinity College Dublin. Irish School of Ecumenics (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      This research, based on an ethnographic study of a community art project from the Atlas Women's Centre in Lisburn, Northern Ireland, examines the contribution of such art programmes to the processes of conflict transformation. ...

    • Research Ethics Module 

      Junker-Kenny, Maureen; Trinity College Dublin. Irish School of Ecumenics; Trinity College Dublin. School of Religions and Theology (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      Aimed at postgraduate students, the Research Ethics module is run as a Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) project by TCD's Irish School of Ecumenics and School of Religions and Theology in collaboration with UCC and NUIG. The ...

    • The Fagel Project 

      Jackson, Tim; McGowan, Moray; Van Berlo, Martine (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      The East Pavilion of the Old Library houses the Fagel Collection - the books, pamphlets and maps amassed by a powerful Dutch family by the end of the 18th century. The Fagels having fallen on hard times as a result of the ...

    • The Bridge-IT Project: digitally connecting academic research with the wider community in Ireland 

      Redmond, Jennifer; Trinity College Dublin. School of English; Trinity College Dublin. Department of Electrronic and Electrical Engineering; Trinity College Dublin. Library (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      The Bridge-IT Project will interview older men and women in Ireland using multimedia technologies. The data generated from the interviews will be used to produce experimental and highly innovative content that will be ...

    • Beneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean 

      Saunders, Emma (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project began as an attempt to explain why the Minoan islanders developed and nurtured this marine interest, while neighbouring island cultures did not. In order to understand the enduring popularity of the sea in ...

    • An Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary Schools 

      Willoughby, Karen (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Recent government reports highlight potential delays in the implementation of the revisions to writing instruction outlined in the 1999 English Curriculum for primary schools. Although delays appear to exist, the nature ...

    • Constructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920 

      Ther, Vanessa (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The fall of Weimar democracy in 1933 has evoked massive interest among historians and the general public and numerous attempts have been made to explain Hitler's rise to power. In this context, many historians have explained ...

    • The Spanish Flu in Leinster 

      Milne, Ida (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The 'Spanish' Influenza pandemic killed 40 to 100 million people during 1918 and 1919, and probably infected about one fifth of the world's population. It disrupted society and economies, debilitated all the armed forces ...

    • The Campus Martius, Rome 

      Hargis, Siobhan (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The Campus Martius was an area in Rome located on a flood plain in the bend of the River Tiber. A pomerium (a sacred boundary associated with the foundation of Rome) ran to the South of the Campus Martius. This boundary ...

    • A Woman's Way Through Times of Social Change 

      Carpenter, Laura (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This study attempts to track the images and representations of mature women in a long-running Irish women's magazine: Woman's Way, from its inception in 1963, to 1990. In my research I am interested to find out whether ...

    • Irish Foreign Policy and Sub-Saharan Africa 1956-1976 

      O' Sullivan, Kevin (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Using a wide variety of sources, from archival and printed works to the interviews with those involved in policy-making, this project uses the example of sub-Saharan African policy to explore the internationalisation of ...

    • Moving Histories: Discourses on Irish Women's Emigration to England Examined, 1922-1948 

      Redmond, Jennifer (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This thesis looks at the public and private discourses on Irish women's emigration to England in the post-independence, pre-Republic era.

    • The "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project: Mapping the Neuro-Architecture of Modernity 

      O' Connor, Theresa (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Like "Second Skin", a dynamic model of architecture pioneered by Marcos Lutyens at the Architectural Association in London, Finnegans Wake asks the reader to extend his/her consciousness to become a co-producer of an ...

    • Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: A Poststructuralist Approach 

      Recht, Laerke (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project will provide a theoretical comparative analysis of the archaeological, iconographic and literary evidence concerning sacrifice in the civilisations of the Aegean and Near East in the Bronze Age. It will offer ...

    • Migration and Cultural Identity in Ulster and Southwest Scotland, 1690-1715 

      Middleton, Katherine (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The 1690s probably saw the largest migration from Scotland to Ulster in any single decade. Fifty thousand is a conservative estimate that is frequently quoted. The movement of such a number of people reshaped both places ...

    • Policing and the Roman Empire 

      Couper, James Grant (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The Roman Empire, from the beginning of the Principate (28 BC onwards), had no full-time dedicated police force as we understand the concept. However the state had to deal with individuals and groups who were intent on ...

    • The Return of the Broad University Curriculum 

      Heffron, Rachel (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      How should the modern university resolve the conflict of whether to meet the demands of the economy or student preferences? Circumstances of economic prosperity, coupled with individual liberty as well as social justice ...