• Beneath the penumbral glow: John Banville and the cinema 

  Kirwan, Mark (University College Cork, 2016)

  This study focuses on the cinematic aspects of John Banville’s work, aiming to answer how the overt cinematic interest in the cinema in his later work is to be understood in the context of his writing career as a whole. ...
• The unity of Edmund Spenser's Complaints 

  Roy, David Karl (University College Cork, 2017)

  Edmund Spenser's Complaints (1591) is a collection of nine poems; these poems are compartmentalized into four sections, each of which begins with its own frontispiece and contains a dedication to a lady. Complaints is an ...
• Mary Devenport O'Neill: writing the Free State 

  Pomeroy, Laura Mernie (University College Cork, 2016)

  This thesis explores Mary Devenport O’Neill’s (1879-1967) writing in its contemporary aesthetic contexts and considers its role in the culture of the Free State in the 1930s and 1940s. There has hitherto been no extensive ...
• "i shall / be in my segments": Dissecting and reassessing Tom Raworth’s Oeuvre and its influences 

  Cummins, James Hussein (University College Cork, 2015)

  This thesis is the first extended examination of Raworth’s poetry and in order to account for the range of Raworth’s work and associations I have offered detailed close readings of numerous texts while situating his work ...
• A critical search for the ‘self’ in adult education: Bourdieuian insights into transformative possibilities 

  Yelverton Halpin, Mary (University College Cork, 2016)

  This study investigates the ‘self’ of six Irish working-class women, all parenting alone and all returned to the field of adult education. Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field and capital are the backdrop for the study ...

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