Sökning: "Contemporary Ireland"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Contemporary Ireland.
1. Processing death: Oval brooches and Viking graves in Britain, Ireland and Iceland
Sammanfattning : Burials with oval brooches from the Viking Age settlements in Britain, Ireland, and Iceland have frequently been interpreted as the graves of a specific and uniform group of people: (pagan) Scandinavian women of relatively high status. This interpretation is partly a result of the way in which the material has been treated, as static entities with more or less fixed meanings. LÄS MER
2. Irish Scene and Sound : Identity, Authenticity and Transnationality among Young Musicians
Sammanfattning : Ireland has long been famous for its rich traditional music. Yet the recent global success of Irish pop, rock and traditional music has transformed the Irish music scene into a world centre attracting musicians, tourists, fans and the music industry from both Ireland and abroad. LÄS MER
3. The Recontextualisation of Social Pedagogy. A study of three curricula in the Netherlands, Norway and Ireland
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to describe, analyse, and compare the recontextualisation of social pedagogy in three different curricula; in Nijmegen (NL), Lillehammer (N), and Sligo (IRL). The curricula represent different academic orientations and are located in different social-political contexts. LÄS MER
4. Protestant Women Novelists and Irish Society 1879-1922
Sammanfattning : This thesis reviews a great number of novels by Anglo-Irish women novelists that - with few exceptions - have attracted little attention from contemporary and modern literary critics. My main focus is on the literature and its society. LÄS MER
5. Analyzing Competitive Victimhood : Narratives of recognition and nonrecognition in the pursuit of reconciliation
Sammanfattning : This dissertation analyzes the narrative manifestation of competitive victimhood and its variations within reconciliation processes. Competitive victimhood (CV) emerges when opposing groups assert themselves to be the sole or primary victims of conflict or use their historical suffering to rationalize ingroup transgressions. LÄS MER