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McMonagle, Sarah. "The Irish Language in post-agreement Northern Ireland : Moving out of conflict." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.553868.
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This thesis enquires whether the Irish language can be removed from discourses of conflict in post-Agreement Northern Ireland. Following an inter-disciplinary examination of the relation between language and the 'national' community, emphasis will be placed on deconstructing the binary of ethnopolitical conflict within which Irish has been framed. Considering that linguistic recognition has been conferred through the Good Friday Agreement (1998), language policy in Northern Ireland must be seen as a type of conflict management. Northern Ireland's transition from conflict will be analysed in terms of political stability through renewed powersharing, a more peaceful society and sociocultural pluralisation beyond the so-called 'two communities'. This period of reconstruction emphasises skills and equality to which language and cultural recognition are key. Utilising original qualitative and quantitative data, this author will present two studies in which the Irish language may be conceived outside of the conflict-management framework. Research undertaken for the comprehensive Northern Ireland Languages Strategy (NILS) reveals a high level of public support for generally increasing language skills in Northern Ireland, alongside mixed responses to the role of Irish. A primary case study on Irish language learners in Canada will then demonstrate the global and multi cultural significance of Irish, highlighting the porosity of physical and cultural borders that discourses of conflict eschew. Government reluctance to view the Irish language as a legitimate skill and matter for the equality agenda continues to shape policy and debate. This continuing form of conflict is inconsistent with the relative success of the democratic process, as well as with the developing Celtic language regimes elsewhere. In response, this author will examine a deliberative democratic forum for language planning in Northern Ireland. This thesis thus contributes to the fields of minority language planning and democratic theory by viewing them as mutually reinforcing in Northern Ireland's transition from conflict.
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Shubin, Sergei Vitalyevich. "(Net)working out poverty and social exclusion in rural Ireland and Russia." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/1d0a9d37-ad6c-4677-bbe4-4d112ab09f71.
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This thesis uncovers complexity of poverty experiences and mechanisms contributing to social exclusion of people living in rural Ireland and Russia, as well as explores the relationship between rural poverty and policies which are supposed to deal with it. It uses networked approach to understanding rural social malaise. The emphasis is given to the explanation of network processes through which poverty and otherness are constructed within a multiplicity of spheres, including social, cultural and political domains. Drawing on empirical research presenting comparative narratives of rural poverty in three villages in Ireland and Russia this research goes beyond an examination of specific "poor" and "excluded" people, in order to consider the processes of impoverishment and marginalisation. At the same time, the thesis investigates the ways in which different knowledge and power, which are enacted in rural policies, transform and translate experiential meanings of poverty. Interpretation and critiques of current rural policy-making, which fails to address poverty-related issues, promote the need to move away from rational and logical policies which produce oversimplified, trivialised and de-sensitised constructions of poverty and otherness. Instead, the thesis refers to different postmodern and poststructural approaches to poverty and otherness which allow a more hybrid and complex understanding of these phenomena. It argues that fluid, sensuous and poetic politics of difference could broaden and deepen understanding of poverty and contribute to the alleviation of poverty-related problems. In conclusion, this thesis suggests the ways in which this research can be incorporated in existing policy practices. It demonstrates that in different countries with contrasting situation vis-a-vis poverty (in terms of scale and seriousness of problems) and anti-poverty policies (in terms of attention paid and funding allocated to rural development) the adoption of alternative approaches to dealing with poverty can alleviate rural social malaise.
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Meehan, Niall. "Tuning out the troubles in southern Ireland : revisionist history, censorship and problematic Protestants." Thesis, University of Bath, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683549.
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This thesis is an examination of the influence and impact of the ‘Troubles’ in Northern Ireland, post 1968, on the practice of Irish history, on southern Irish broadcast media and on the southern Irish modernisation process. I will examine the uneasy and contested transition in systems of hegemony in a society where the state is not coterminous with perceptions of nationhood, where society is anxiously suspended between conservation of its existence and popular nationalist aspirations, where southern economic dependency interacted uneasily with northern political instability and sectarianism. The thesis examines the ‘Ulsterisation’ of the War of Independence by some historians and its aftermath as an ideological project. It pays particular attention, using the case-study method, to the imposition of a sectarian character on republican forces during the war of independence by the highly influential Newfoundland historian Peter Hart, and will explain why this research is ideologically problematic within Irish historiography. I will link this to (in a second case-study) the project undertaken in the early 1970s by Irish government minister (also an academic historian and political scientist) Conor Cruise O’Brien to undermine and eradicate from popular awareness secular anti-imperialist aspects of Irish nationalist consciousness, primarily through, in case-study three, the imposition of broadcasting censorship and support for repression. I question O’Brien’s positing of a ‘Catholic nationalism’ as an overarching basis for Irish statehood by, in case-study four, an examination the largely unexplored socio-economic position of Protestants in southern Ireland and the forms of social control imposed on and within that community. The thesis examines how official reaction to the conflict combined repression and broadcasting censorship during the 1970s to revise popular perceptions of Irish history and Irish society. Control of understanding of the present was combined with attempts to take control of perceptions of the past, in order to circumscribe the parameters of what is feasible in the present, so as to preserve the socio-economic status quo. It specifically explores the impact of the post 1968 Northern Ireland conflict on: • The attempt by proponents of Irish revisionist historiography to portray Irish resistance to British rule as ‘Catholic nationalism’ and as a mirror image generally of Ulster unionist sectarianism; in the context of • The simultaneous transformational change of economic direction in the southern Irish economy and society, which imparted to this project increased impetus, opportunity and political scope.
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McGuffin, Lynn Eleanor. "Role of out-of-home eating on children's diets on the island of Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.673805.
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Out-of-home (OH) eating has been identified as one of the many contributing factors to obesity because of its increasing association with higher energy intakes. In Irish children in 2003,77% ate OH with their families at least once per week. Therefore, the aim of this thesis was to assess the role and impact of OH eating on children's diets to inform future measures that could support healthier OH food choices. National nutrition and health related policies (/155) were reviewed for guidelines on providing healthier OH food for children in the private sector. Few policies considered the private sector and those that did predominantly highlighted the impliance of providing nutrition information for consumers. Analysis of children' s menus (/1106) in the private sector revealed a paucity of healthier items for children, however this may reflect consumer demand. Subsequent discussions with parents (24 focus groups) and children (48 friendship pairs) showed that eating in the private sector was mainly viewed as a treat for families and nutritional quality was not a priority in food choice decisions. Parents also provided insight into facilitators that may improve the nutritional quality of food targeted specifically at children. Primary schools (/120) were more likely than post-primary schools (n10; P
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Neill, Gail Ann. "'A different kind of girl' : young women's experiences of growing up and 'coming out' in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709683.
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This study explores the experiences of young women, growing up and coming out as other than heterosexual in contemporary Northern Ireland as a means of examining ways in which sexualities are 'organised through economic, religious, political, familial and social conditions' (Plummer, 2003:515). Informed by an interactionist approach it considers the 'everyday' ways in which young women construct non-conventional sexualities within a hostile social context, and how their interactions with significant others, particularly through processes of coming out, shape constructions of difference. It further explores their experiences with key social institutions and their influence on the construction of personal identity and sense of self in society. In seeking to hear the experiences of those regularly overlooked within LGBT research, a feminist methodology was implemented. The research suggests a number of ways in which young women understand their sexual selves, the categorization used to explain this to others and the range of ways in which these identities are managed and negotiated in everyday life. It demonstrates that age and gender are crucial in the construction of sexual identities. Based on developmental age-related assumptions about sexuality, young women's same-sex attractions are often discredited and demeaned during this period. Further, so closely tied are expectations regarding gender and sexuality that non-heterosexual young women can experience profound feelings of 'difference' and 'failure' growing up as a ‘different kind of girl'. Overall the research demonstrates the prevalence of normative gendered heterosexuality in contemporary Northern Ireland. Such norms conferring status on particular presentations of selfhood were reflected, reproduced and privileged across many institutions with which young women interact. The pervasiveness of this, and the authority of these institutions at a time when young people are so heavily involved in, and monitored by them, it is demonstrated, makes experiences of growing up and 'coming out' complex.
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Moloney, Michelle. "Reaching out from the Archive: the role of community oral history archives in conflict transformation in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2014. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.604655.
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The Good Friday Agreement in 1998 marked a significant change in Northern Ireland and brought with it the vision of a shared future. However, divisions between communities remain steadfast' as does the lack of agreement on how best to deal with the past. Recent Loyalist protests visibly attest to the rigid boundaries between communities and an absence of "positive peace". The research addresses these issues by identifying methods and processes that can soften community divisions and contribute to dealing the past. It is located at a grass-roots community level and argues that community oral history archives can contribute to conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. The research employed a feminist approach that supports the notion that those best to determine the usefulness of community oral history archives in conflict transformation are community members. Therefore, long-term participant observation on the construction of a cross-community oral history archive supported by a range of interviews from practitioners and academics both locally and internationally provided data for this work. The research found that community oral history archives have a contribution to make to conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. The original contribution the research makes to knowledge is that construction of a cross-community oral history archive in Northern Ireland provides a platform for intra- and inter-community relationship building that facilitates explorations into the past, present and future and contributes to conflict transformation. Working together on building a cross- community oral history archive, with the contested past as the centre-point of the process, can nurture cross-community alliances, create new networks and deliver a community artefact that symbolises the experiences of a community in the throes of conflict. Most importantly, working together in a shared present shifts the notion of a shared future from a distant concept to one of mutually beneficial positive interdependence.
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Murphy, Gavin. "'The Tropes Out Movement?' : an examination of the work of three English artists dealing with the political conflict in Northern Ireland through the medium of paint." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.245807.
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Kasem, Abedallah Yousef. "Exploring the views of parents of children aged two years and under following telephone advice from nurses working in a GP out-of-hours service in Ireland." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2017. https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/417380/.
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This thesis focuses on parents’ use and experiences of general practitioner (GP) out-of-hours(OOHs) services in Ireland. The progress in the establishment of GP OOHs services is considered by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to be a highly significant quality initiative for patient care, and the health service as a whole. Outside of normal GP surgery hours, parents of children can call a dedicated telephone number, to have their urgent health concerns assessed and to be advised about the appropriate level of care. Experienced nurses, who are often based in a GP OOHs centre, assess the call over the telephone and provide advice to the callers. The spur for conducting this study arose from my personal and professional experience which, I believe, underscores the need for exploring and understanding parents’ views of GP OOHs services, in order to bring about change in nurses’ practice of delivering advice over the telephone. The overall aim of the study is to explore and understand the views of parents of children, aged two years and under, following telephone advice received from nurses in the context of a GP out-ofhoursservice. A qualitative, exploratory, descriptive design was used to examine the views and experiences ofparents of children aged two years and under, who used a GP out-of-hours service provider in reland. Nine parents who had received phone advice from a nurse were purposively sampled to take part in the study. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews by telephone. Datawere transcribed and analysed thematically. Themes included parents’ perceptions of illness in children with the need to be heard, parents’ views about accessibility to GP OOHs, parents’ expectations that the service would offer guidance and reassurance, parents’ satisfaction with the nurse’s advice, and parents’ experiences of hospital emergency departments (EDs). Suggestions for improving the GP OOHs service were made across these themes. The suggestions include:higher staffing levels, wanting a quicker call back, preference for face-to-face assessment over telephone advice and a preference for a children’s area in the GP OOHs. The study revealed that parents are satisfied with the GP OOHs service and the parental decision-making model has the potential to provide an opportunity to continue the progress of the establishment of GP OOHs services in Ireland.
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Shields, Kieran Patrick. ""Standing up not standing out" : an ethnographic study of the educational experiences of Irish Traveller children in their first year of primary education in rural Northern Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2016. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.709818.
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This study explores the early educational experiences of a small group of Irish Traveller children as they transitioned into the first year of their formal primary school education in a rural primary school in Northern Ireland. Informed in part by some theoretical concepts associated with the work of Bourdieu, Jenkins and the sociology of childhood, the study aimed to better understand how young Traveller children lived out and experienced their first days of school. Using an ethnographic approach that involved some classroom observations of and interviews with Traveller children, the study highlights the interface between the school culture and aspects of the Traveller children’s culture and the challenges and complexities for both them and their teachers in finding an accommodation between the two. Through specific examples in the school setting the study shows the challenges and complexities for teachers as they strive to meet organisational imperatives while also attempting to attend to the individual needs presented by some Traveller children. The study also shows how normative school teacher practices, the school culture and ethos aim to support Traveller children and yet, sometimes in practice, can have unintended less positive impacts. The indicates a concern that the twin aims of inclusion, which is perceived and practiced as integration, versus respect for diversity and difference may appear incompatible and yet there are a number of small changes that could be made within the school setting to bridge the gap between these two positions. The thesis ends by outlining these suggested changes to policy and practice.
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Heaney, James Francis. "Northern Ireland and the Anglo-Irish agreement: peace in our time?" Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80078.
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The Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 represented a watershed in Anglo-Irish relations. Its specific aim has been the removal of the unionist veto which has frustrated attempts to settle the Irish Question since the partition of Northern Ireland from the rest of the island in 1921. Heralded initially by many as the "solution" to the "troubles", the Agreement had much to live up to. To an extent initial accolades were functions of wishful thinking and condemnation that of knee-jerk reaction based upon instinctive fear. One can only hope that a path to resolution had been created despite such misgivings and high expectations. One thing has been evident, there has been a general confusion among nationalists and unionists as to what the Agreement allows for.
This paper attempts to analyze where the Anglo-Irish Agreement fits into the scheme of things in the political context of Northern Ireland. In the third year since its passing there seems to be little external sign of resolution to the conflict, certainly nothing that might justify the grand expectations of those who would have seen it realize the ultimate withdrawal of Britain from Ireland. The Agreement remains as contentious now after three years as it was in the days after its passing. This raises the necessity of a re-appraisal of the situation and forces the question, can there ever be a peaceful solution if there continues to be such a fundamental disagreement as to what is at stake? One of the few certainties about Northern Ireland is that if the parties involved continue to approach the problem from opposite and intransigent perspectives, no agreement reached between Britain and Ireland on the future of Northern Ireland which "threatens" to succeed will be allowed to do so peacefully.Master of Arts
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Tierney, J. "Absenteism and local government in Ireland : who is managing our absent colleagues?" Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.517521.
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Feeney, Linda. "Our Gods?: celebrity worship among Catholic and Protestant young people in Northern Ireland." Thesis, Ulster University, 2008. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.491486.
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There is increasing psychological interest in the impact of celebrity adoration in contemporary society. Such work has primarily been built around the Celebrity Attitude Scale among adult samples, and has examined the relationship of this measure with various aspects of psychological well-being. However, little work has focused on the place of celebrity adoration within the life of young people. Research among adolescents is of particular interest given their developing identities, as well as their explicit interest with figures in the media and popular culture. The present research among a sample of Northern Irish had six related aims: first, to provide a critical review of the celebrity worship literature, and in particular that relating to the development and deployment of the Celebrity Attitude Scale; second, to establish the level of celebrity worship among young adolescents in Northern Ireland; third, to identify the types and characteristics of the celebrities worshipped; fourth, to examine the appeal of fame among Protestant and Catholic adolescents; fifth, to identify sex differences in the conceptualisation of celebrity idols; and sixth, to examine the commonalities between the two religious communities (Protestant and Catholic) in terms of celebrities adored. A convenience sample of 806, adolescents aged between 11 and 19 years, were drawn from five schools in Northern Ireland. All respondents completed the Celebrity Attitude Scale, a revised version of the 10-item Parasocial Interaction Scale and qualitative items on celebrity adoration. All measures were completed during class time. First, a theoretical literature review was presented. Second, methodological issues surrounding the Celebrity Attitude Scale were highlighted. Third, psychometric structure of the Celebrity Attitude Scale was evaluated in terms of factor structure and temporal stability. Fourth, the level of celebrity worship among the present sample of Protestant and Catholic adolescents was computed and compared to previously published scores. Fifth, qualitative and quantitative differences in celebrity adoration by males and female adolescents were highlighted. Sixth, commonalities and differences between the two religious communities (Protestant and Catholic) in terms of the types and characteristics of the celebrities were explored. The overall findings indicated that in the lives of young people in Northern Ireland, like elsewhere, celebrity worship has an important place. As such, there are a number of important policy related issues. Finally, it is proposed that shared heroes or celebrity figures chosen between Catholics and Protestant may provide the focus for cross-community contact.
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Fahy, Colm V. "No way out? : the search of an international legal response to Northern Ireland's Separatist Nationalists." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/MQ50930.pdf.
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Habel, Chad Sean, and chad habel@gmail com. "Ancestral Narratives in History and Fiction: Transforming Identities." Flinders University. Humanities, 2006. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20071108.133216.
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This thesis is an exploration of ancestral narratives in the fiction of Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch. Initially, ancestry in literature creates an historical relationship which articulates the link between the past and the present. In this sense ancestry functions as a type of cultural memory where various issues of inheritance can be negotiated. However, the real value of ancestral narratives lies in their power to aid in the construction of both personal and communal identities. They have the potential to transform these identities, to transgress natural boundaries and to reshape conventional identities in the light of historical experience.
For Keneally, ancestral narratives depict national forbears who narrate the nation into being. His earlier fictions present ancestors of the nation within a mythic and symbolic framework to outline Australian national identity. This identity is static, oppositional, and characterized by the delineation of boundaries which set nations apart from one another. However, Keneallys more recent work transforms this conventional construction of national identity. It depicts an Irish-Australian diasporic identity which is hyphenated and transgressive: it transcends the conventional notion of nations as separate entities pitted against one another. In this way Keneallys ancestral narratives enact the potential for transforming identity through ancestral narrative.
On the other hand, Kochs work is primarily concerned with the intergenerational trauma causes by losing or forgetting ones ancestral narrative. His novels are concerned with male gender identity and the fragmentation which characterizes a self-destructive idea of maleness. While Keneallys characters recover their lost ancestries in an effort to reshape their idea of what it is to be Australian, Kochs main protagonist lives in ignorance of his ancestors life. He is thus unable to take the opportunity to transform his masculinity due to the pervasive cultural amnesia surrounding his family history and its role in Tasmanias past.
While Keneally and Koch depict different outcomes in their fictional ancestral narratives they are both deeply concerned with the potential to transform national and gender identities through ancestry.
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Craig, Steven. "'Our Gothic bard' : Shakespeare and appropriation, 1764-1800." Thesis, University of Stirling, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/3067.
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In recent years, Gothic literary studies have increasingly acknowledged the role played by Shakespeare in authorial acts of appropriation. Such acknowledgement is most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares (eds. Drakakis and Townshend, 2008) and Shakespearean Gothic (eds. Desmet and Williams, 2009), both of which base their analyses of the Shakespeare-Gothic intersection on the premise that Shakespearean quotations, characters and events are valuable objects in their own right which mediate on behalf of the 'present' concerns of the agents of textual appropriation. In light of this scholarship, this thesis argues the case for the presence of 'Gothic Shakespeare' in Gothic writing during the latter half of the eighteenth century and, in doing so, it acknowledges the conceptual gap whereby literary borrowings were often denounced as acts of plagiarism. Despite this conceptual problem, it is possible to trace distinct 'Gothic' Shakespeares that dismantle the concept of Shakespeare as a singular ineffable genius by virtue of a textual practice that challenges the concept of the 'genius' Shakespeare as the figurehead of genuine emotion and textual authenticity. This thesis begins by acknowledging the eighteenth-century provenance of Shakespeare's 'Genius', thereby distinguishing between the malevolent barbarian Gothic of Shakespeare's own time and the eighteenth-century Gothic Shakespeares discussed under the term 'appropriation'. It proceeds to examine the Shakespeares of canonical Gothic writers (Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe and Matthew Lewis) as well as their lesser-known contemporaries (T.J. Horsley Curties and W.H. Ireland). For instance, Walpole conscripts Hamlet in order to mediate his experience of living in England after the death of his father, the first Prime Minister Robert Walpole. The thesis then argues for the centrality of Shakespeare in the Gothic romance's undercutting of the emergent discourses of emotion (or 'passion'), as represented by the fictions of Radcliffe and Lewis, before moving on to consider Curties's attempted recuperation - in Ethelwina; or, the House of Fitz-Auburne (1799) - of authentic passion, which is mediated through the authenticity apparatus of Edmond Malone's 1790 editions of Shakespeare's plays. It concludes with W.H. Ireland's dismantling of Malone's ceoncept of the 'authentic' Shakespeare through the contemporary transgressions of literary forgery and the evocation of an illicit Shakespeare in his first Gothic romance, The Abbess, also published in 1799.
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Wade-Woolley, Lesly A. (Lesly Ann). "For-to complements in Appalachian English." Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=59236.
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This thesis investigates the phenomenon of for-to complements in several dialects, focusing primarily on Appalachian English, though Belfast English and Ottawa Valley English are also examined. Following Chomsky's Government and Binding theory, we develop an analysis of for-to that predicts the distribution of for-to complements based on the requirements of Case, and the varieties of licit movement of features allowed by each dialect. To do this, we propose a Revised Case Filter which requires functional categories bearing Case features to discharge Case. We also show that the features of functional categories can move either by head movement (allowing movement of to into for) or by feature transmission (allowing for to move into to).Each of these mechanisms generates a specific range of well-formed for-to complements; the distribution of these complements can be predicted by the ways in which the dialects allow features to move. Appalachian English and Ottawa Valley English allow head movement of features only, while Belfast English allows features to move via head movement and feature transmission. Thus for-to complements are more wide-spread in Belfast English than in the other for-to dialects. Standard English, which does not allow features to move unless they are accompanied by lexical material, does not exhibit for-to complements at all.
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Pecoraro, Luke. ""Mr. Gookin out of Ireland, wholly upon his owne adventure": an archaeological study of intercolonial and transatlantic connections in the seventeenth century." Thesis, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/15679.
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English colonization of Virginia is characterized as boldly intrusive, spreading quickly from the first toehold at Jamestown into the hinterlands and leading to open hostility with native peoples almost from the start. In this dissertation, I examine links between practices in the home country and Virginia through the actions and back-story of one particular colonizer: Daniel Gookin Jr. (1612-1687), an English Puritan adventurer who migrated from Ireland to Virginia and later to Maryland and Massachusetts. I use archaeological evidence from both Ireland and southeastern Virginia to demonstrate that Irish influences on 17th-century colonial projects in Virginia were greater than previously thought.
Prior to emigrating to the colonies, Gookin was one of a number of Puritans owning property in County Cork, Ireland. I surveyed the ruins of 12 fortified houses and four archaeological sites in County Cork that were either owned or leased by Gookin, or were properties of his associates. In Virginia, Gookin is credited with building the Nansemond Fort Site (44SK192), a ca.1637 inland fortified bawn in Suffolk. The Nansemond Fort's similarities with bawns from the same period in Ireland's Munster Plantation indicate that the Virginia property was also built for the dual purposes of personal defense and animal husbandry. The plantation system Gookin learned in Ireland he replicated in North America--raising cattle and corn for transatlantic and intercolonial provisioning, maintaining a tight trading network of Puritan family members in Ireland and Puritans in other British colonies, and negotiation with indigenous people--resulting in his acquisition of three plantations in Maryland and Virginia and five in New England. I draw on archaeological evidence from four sites in Virginia and from Massachusetts shipping records to illustrate the Puritan network that Gookin operated within during Britain's Commonwealth period (1649-1660).
I use microhistory, archaeological biography, and landscape archaeology to situate the trajectory of Daniel Gookin Jr.'s career within a comparative transatlantic setting. In building a firm context for one family's history, I tie together sites, people, and materials on an Atlantic scale, and so add to our understanding of the materiality of colonialism in the British Atlantic.