Fourteen postgraduate students in the Faculty of Arts will present papers at Arts Postgraduate Research Day on 8 March, in the University Industry Centre.
Their subjects are CES Enlargement: Impact on the EU and Ireland in Particular by Carmel Roche, Centre of European Economic and Public Affairs; Information retrieval from the Internet: An Evaluation by Monica Brinkley of the Department of Library and Information Studies; Narrative and Identity in Beckett's Trilogy by Brian Duffy of the Department of French; The Spartan Exiles 190-180BC by Paul Hunt of the Department of Classics; "Function Verb Structures": Their features, usage and effective exemplification in more advanced teaching of German by Paul Cannon of the Department of German; Educational Influences on the Emergence of Professional Women - Pre- and Post-Independence by Margaret Ó hÓgartaigh of the Department of History; The Gender Restructuring of Welfare: Social Welfare in Ireland by Nicola Yeates of the Centre for Women's Studies; An Investigation of Factors affecting the Role of Dependence in Urban Elderly by Karen Lyons of the Department of Psychology; The Sites of Philosphy by Timothy MacNaughton of the Department of Philosophy; The Unpublished Poetry of Thomas MacGreevy: An Exploration by Susan Schreibman of the Department of English; Late 17th Century and Early 18th Century Ritual Practices in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin by David Murphy of the Department of History; Event Passives in Old English by Clodagh Lynam of the Department of Linguistics; The Rationalisation of Death - Lessons from Auschwitz by Eoin O'Mahony of the Department of Sociology; and The War of Words - Testimonial Narrative in Latin America by Sinead Canning of the Spanish Department.
The second publication of research work by postgraduate students in the faculty, Pages Vol 2 will be launched at the event by the President, Dr Cosgrove, at 12.45pm.