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Postgraduate Research Day presentations

There were 13 presentations at the annual Postgraduate Research Day organised by the Arts Postgraduate Studies Office. The event is designed to enable postgraduate students to present an aspect of their research and meet colleagues from other areas.

It was held in the University Industry Centre on 2 March. The subjects included ‘The Changing Ethnic Make-up of the British State’ by Kevin Howard; ‘unconscious and Unconscious: a comparison of cognitive and dynamic outlooks with a view to reconciliation’ by Marek McGann; ‘Gender and Voter Appeal in Irish elections, 1948-1997’ by Michael O’Kelly; ‘Beyond mimesis: an exploration of the dynamics of theatrical space in Anne Devlin’s plays’ by Maria Enrica Cerquoni; ‘you’ve seen a strawberry/that’s had a struggle’: The Poetry of War in Marianne Moore’s Nevertheless’ by David Chan; ‘Jane Austen’s Regency Rakes’ by Carmel Nolan; ‘Hiberno-England: Irish Literature 1800-1916’ by Aidan Curran; Annie M P Smithson - Romantic Novelist/Revolutionary Nurse’ by Marie Bashford-Synnott; ‘Shapechanging: metamorphosis in Ciaran Carson’s The Twelfth of Never’ by Omaar Hena; ‘If a Picture Paints a Thousand Words ... Recommending a Subject Indexing Vocabulary for the Thomas MacGreevy Hypertext Chronology’ by Sinéad O’Gorman; ‘Foreign language learners who spend time abroad are better than learners who don’t, right? On the role of study abroad’ by Martin Howard; ‘Binjamin Wilkomerski’s rhetoric of horror’ by Angela Reinicke’ and ‘La géographie de "l’Orient de l’Europe": mapping "civilisation" in the eighteenth century’ by Giulia Cecere.

Sessions were chaired by Senator Kathleen O’Meara; Professor Catherine O’Brien, Department of Italian, NUI Galway; Professor Declan Kiberd of the Department of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama; and Professor C E J Caldicott of the Department of French.

During the day, the directory of postgraduate research in progress, Pages 99, was launched by the Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Dr Garret FitzGerald.

The Chancellor of the National University of Ireland, Dr Garrett Fitzgerald, at the launch of Pages 99 during Arts Postgraduate Research Day, pictured with the dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Fergus D’Arcy and a group of the postgraduate students.