Browsing Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin: Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Women's descriptive representation in national parliaments
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2013)This dissertation studies the descriptive (i.e. numeric) representation of women in national parliaments in three related but independent papers. The empirical analysis presented in the papers is based on two original data ... -
Women's Experiences of Attempted Access to Alternative Birth Models in Contemporary Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2022)Maternity care in contemporary Ireland is situated within a medical model of birth that conceptualises pregnancy and labour as potentially pathological and inherently risky. Grounded within this paradigm, maternity services ... -
Women's mental health and resilience in the perinatal period and five years after first-time motherhood: a mixed methods study
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Nursing & Midwifery. Discipline of Nursing, 2024)Background: Although motherhood is associated with joy and celebration, adverse mental health outcomes are widely documented in international literature. Yet, publications concerning maternal mental health in an Irish ... -
Women's parliamentary representation in 27 western democracies : cultural, socio-economic and political obstacles to entry
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2000)This study examines obstacles to women's parliamentary representation in 27 western democracies. Women’s political underrepresentation internationally is a cause of concern to international organisations such as the UN, ... -
Women's peacebuilding iniatives in the Benue Valley, Nigeria : gender, fundamental human needs and conflict resolution
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2014)In this research, I investigate and provide a multi-disciplinary scholarly analysis of four grassroots groups of women peacebuilding in the multi-communal Benue Valley, Nigeria (BVN): to offer analysis of the causes of ... -
Women, republicanism, radicalism, and street politics in Ireland: 1956-1973
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Wooden, wounded, defaced : performing the body in Irish theatre 1983-1993
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Drama, 2002)Wooden. Wounded. Defaced-Performing the Body in Irish Theatre 1983-1993 uses a four-chapter structure to consider the issues of performance and representation in Irish theatre, the specific circumstances within which Irish ... -
Woodland vegetation change through space and time : impacts of large herbivores
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Botany, 2014)Semi-natural woodlands are a globally important ecosystem. The functioning of these woodlands are being impacted through a range of anthropogenic activities, which induce vegetation changes, including climate change, ... -
'The word this worldes cause entriketh': Negotiating Fallen Signs in John Gower's Confessio Amantis
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2018)This thesis argues that the Confessio Amantis is a study in the inadequacy of language and its constructs. It asserts that, like his fourteenth-century contemporary authors, Gower explores the mutable condition of language, ... -
Work-related decision-making among older workers in the Irish civil service
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Social Work and Social Policy, 2010)This thesis is an exploratory study of work-related decision-making among mid-life to older workers in the Irish Civil Service. The issue of older workers is under-researched generally and is of significant policy interest ... -
Work/Retirement, Family Relations, and Perceptions on the Pension Regime of Middle-aged Citizens in Urban China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2020)Focusing on urban areas of contemporary China, this thesis interrogates the interactions between the pension and retirement policy and the pathways of middle-aged citizens to retirement. At present, the pension regime in ... -
The Worker and the Constitution: A Theory of Constitutional Labour Law
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Law. Discipline of Law, 2023)This thesis constructs a theoretical justification for the phenomenon of ?constitutional labour law? ? that is, legal decisions about the interaction between constitutional norms, including human rights, and the labour ... -
Working Principle of Tunable PlasmonicReflect-Array Metasurfaces
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2021)This thesis will explore the way in which plasmonic metasurfaces, hosting nano-scale metallic resonator elements, can be used as beam-steering devices. We will propose our own devices that will demonstrate anomalous ... -
Working-class Dublin in fiction and plays, 1954-2004
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis explores the depiction of working-class Dublin in fiction and plays from 1954 to 2004. It examines how proletarian identity is depicted in this body of writing, the common themes and ideas it sustains, and what ... -
"The world is losing this little girl": An exploration of hospital-based Children's End of Life Care through a Narrative Lens
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2021)The death of a child is a profound and life-changing loss for all families. The majority of children continue to die in hospital due to the nature of the child's illness, the suddenness of their deterioration, and, at ... -
The Worship Music of Dublin's Church of Ireland Parishes and Other Protestant Denominations in the Long Eighteenth Century: Sources, Repertoire and Cultural Context
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Music, 2022)Studies of music in eighteenth-century Dublin have, to date, typically focussed on the musical culture of the upper-class Protestant Ascendancy, and even more specifically, on secular music. Research into sacred music has ... -
Writing 'that animal darkness': Galway Kinnell, Gary Snyder, James Merrill
As humanity’s most evident other, at once deeply similar to and fundamentally different from the human, the animal is a valuable poetical trope. This thesis examines the representation and function of animals and animality ... -
Writing and reading history : a study of Ezra Pound's Malatesta, Jefferson and Adams Cantos
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)This thesis examines Pound's claim that The Cantos are "a poem including history" (Pound's definition of an epic). The principal focus is on the three sequences usually referred to as the Malatesta Cantos (VIII-XI), the ... -
Writing Ireland in the Latin chronicles and histories of early Plantagenet England
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers a fresh examination of Latin writers' attitudes towards and depictions of Ireland, its affairs and its people in early Plantagenet England. Moving beyond the 'Geraldine paradigm' that has hitherto now ... -
Writing strategies of Saudi Arabian ESP learners : competence, apprehension and the role of strategy instruction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2014)This study explores the writing strategies of 121 second-year undergraduate Saudi student writers who are studying English as a foreign language and for specific purposes in one of the Saudi industrial colleges: Jubail ...