Borders in Brian Friel`s Translations

( Bernard O`donoghue ) 한국영어영문학회 2013 영어 영문학 Vol.59 No.6

Brian Friel`s most discussed play Translations was published and first performed in 1981 at the height of the Northern Irish Troubles. Inevitably its critical reception centered on political meanings-for example, whether the play was primarily concerned with the colonial activity involved in the English renaming of Irish place names in the early nineteenth century. If the play was primarily concerned with this act of linguistic appropriation, then the question of absolute historical accuracy is crucial, so interpretations hostile to the play accused it of inaccuracies (for example such minutiae as whether rifles were armed with bayonets or not). In fact, the play is not about this kind of political appropriation at all, but about mutual misapprehension and lack of understanding. This essay analyzes several scenes of the play to show how nobody wholly understands anyone else-a social circumstance which is represented in linguistic terms, through Irish, English, Greek and Latin. The critical failure to understand the play in its own dramatic terms is ironically a modern instance of the same failure of mutual comprehension. This paper has been showing the particular ways in which Irish cultural history is heteroglossic. My intention is to focus on a particular way of how the condition of Ireland is distinctive in dealing with its linguistic amalgam and to suggest the irony that a play which has been so concerned with the complexities and confusions of borders and partitions should be suspected of having a simple or monolithic solution to such issues.

The Boat i.m. Seamus Heaney

Bernard O’Donoghue 한국예이츠학회 2014 한국예이츠 저널 Vol.43 No.-

Mature Stealing : Yeats and Heaney as Examples

Bernard O’Donoghue 한국예이츠학회 2014 한국예이츠 저널 Vol.43 No.-

20세기 시학과 평론은, T. S. 엘리엇의 「전통과 개성」(1921년)과 해롤드 블룸의 영향의 두려움 (1973년)에서부터 지금까지, 앞의 작가의 나중의 작가에 대한 영향과 전범의 개념을 많이 다루었다. 본 논문은 예이츠를 전범으로 다루는데, 예이츠 이후의 작가로 먼저 오든을 간략하게 다루고 셰이머스 히니를 집중 고찰한다. 본 논문의 주장은, 예이츠의 영향이 통상 부정적이었다는 주장이 흔하지만, 그는 히니의 시학에 대한 생각에 지속적인 영향이 있는 것이 사실이다. (히니는 1978년 이 영향에 대한 질문을 던지는 「예이츠는 전범인가?」라는 유명한 글을 썼다.) 나는 마지막으로 그 영향이 사회적 정황보다는 “예술”의 문제일 때 좋은 것이라 주장한다. 즉, “모범적인 작가”라는 표현은 어려운 정치적 시대에—옳든 그르든—정치적 관심을 초월한다고 느끼는 작가들을 칭찬하는 것을 보게 된다는 말이다. 이것은 그들의 시대에 대해서 예이츠와 히니의 평가에도 해당되는 말이다. Twentieth-century poetics and criticism have been much concerned with the ideas of example and influence of earlier writers on later, from T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent”(1921) to Harold Bloom’s Anxiety of Influence (1973), and afterwards. This paper considers the example of Yeats for his successors, first briefly for Auden but then extensively for Seamus Heaney. It argues that, while the influence of Yeats has often been said to be negative, in fact he has been a constant presence in Heaney’s thinking on poetics (he wrote in 1978 a celebrated essay “Yeats as an Example?” questioning that influence). I argue, finally, that influence seems to be agreed to be good when it is a matter of “Art” rather than public circumstance: we find the phrase “an exemplary artist” many times in praise of writers in troubled political times who are felt—rightly or not—to be “above” political concerns. This is true of the evaluation of both Yeats and Heaney in relation to their times.

Corpus Pedagogy: Analyzing Corpus Use in the Classroom and EFL Business Student Attitudes towards Corpora

John O'Donoghue,Chae Kwan Jung 팬코리아영어교육학회(구 영남영어교육학회) 2013 영어교육연구 Vol.25 No.3

For over thirty years corpus linguists have been discussing the applicability of corpora to language teaching. While their use in compiling dictionaries and shaping teaching materials has been promoted and celebrated, using corpora directly in the classroom has been propagated by some but rejected, or even ignored, by many. Those who have conducted research into such direct use of corpora have tended to select postgraduate students who have an intrinsic interest in language or linguistics. The results of such research have invariably been rather positive. This study aims to examine the application of one corpus at undergraduate level with students whose focus is on the more general area of business and establish whether similarly positive results are to be observed. The results of which indicate that the majority of participants benefited from the experience and valued their corpus activity. There was, however, some criticism concerning navigating the British National Corpus (BNC) and the time-consuming nature of corpus work. The diverse nature of students' performances reflects the wide range of student responses to engaging with corpus. The student' attitudes indicate that an active guiding role by the teacher may significantly improve the quality of such learners' involvement with corpora.

Ganesh

Bernard O’Donoghue,Young Suck Rhee 한국예이츠학회 2012 한국예이츠 저널 Vol.39 No.-

Tariff Reduction in a Small Open Economy

Vaqar Ahmed,Cathal O'Donoghue 서울대학교 경제연구소 2010 Seoul journal of economics Vol.23 No.4

During the late 1990s, Pakistan managed to significantly liberalize its external sector, and by 2002, the average tariff rate was under 17 percent which was well below the average in comparative countries. Using a social accounting matrix (SAM) for 2002, we develop a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to evaluate the impact of tariff reduction in Pakistan. Our analysis goes beyond the usual trade-focused general equilibrium studies for Pakistan, as we also conduct a detailed sensitivity analysis to check the robustness of welfare-related results. Our findings suggest an overall positive impact of slashing tariff rates on macroeconomic, and welfare indicators.

Relative age distribution of Welsh netball players

Anna Joll,Peter G.O’Donoghue 한국코칭능력개발원 2007 International Journal of Coaching Science Vol.1 No.2

A Context-Sensitive Rule-based Architecture for a Smart Building Environment

John Herbert,John O’Donoghue,Xiang Chen 보안공학연구지원센터 2009 International Journal of Smart Home Vol.3 No.1

In a smart building environment nomadic users can benefit from specialised context-sensitive services. These can increase productivity and offer an improved lifestyle for users. The Data Management System-Context Architecture (DMS-CA) has been designed to provide these services. The DMS-CA is novel in providing a completely generic system that is both user-friendly and efficient. The system is generic in that it can be tailored by the system administrator (using XML specifications) for a particular environment of context information inputs and a set of services. In addition, the actual rules that determine which services are triggered by which combination of contextual inputs are determined by the individual user in a user-friendly manner. Thus the generic architecture can be easily deployed for a particular building and an individual user. Generic solutions are sometimes inefficient but this system has been designed to be highly efficient through using an event-based architecture and dealing with time in a special way. The DMS-CA has been deployed for a building incorporating a wireless sensor network, and shown to provide a high quality, efficient context-sensitive data delivery service.

Relative Age Effect in Netball

Laura Edwards,Peter G. O’Donoghue 한국코칭능력개발원 2014 International Journal of Coaching Science Vol.8 No.1

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the experiences of international netball players born in different parts of the school year. A total of thirteen international netball players aged 24 to 52 were interviewed (six born in the first half of the school year and seven born in the second half). A qualitative analysis of the interview data was performed using a combination of deductive and inductive analyses. The analysis focussed on five broad themes: participation motives, attrition motives, age issues, support and location issues. The two groups of players experienced similar participation motives and support from coaches, family, friends and peers. Age issues were experienced by both groups of players. Location effects and the need to balance netball with other commitments were also experienced by both groups of players. There were two differences between the two groups with all seven of the players born in the second half of the school year experiencing performance and social attrition motives. These were experienced by 3 and 4 of the 6 players born in the first half of the school year respectively. Coaches and national governing bodies need to be aware of the attrition motives experienced by players, especially those who live some distance from main netball centres. An understanding of the performance attrition motives experienced specifically by players born in the second half of the school year could help coaches to nurture talented players.

Post-Acute Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation Treatment Variables: A Mixed Methods Study

Victoria Harding,Cynthia O’Donoghue,Cara Meixner,Frank Lewis,Gordon Horn,Robert Russell 한국언어재활사협회 2017 Clinical Archives of Communication Disorders Vol.2 No.3

Purpose: This study explores gains in function, measured by the Mayo-Portland Adaptability Inventory-4 (MPAI-4) and qualitative interviews, of individuals who participated in a Post Hospital Interdisciplinary Brain Injury Rehabilitation – Residential (PHIDBIR-R) program as part of their recovery from brain injury. Methods: The study uses a mixed methods design to identify correlates and explore pathways to functional recovery. Change scores from the MPAI-4 were derived to identify participants with greatest functional improvement. Qualitative interviews were employed to understand PHIDBIR-R program constructs associated with functional improvement. MPAI-4 data were derived from a bank of 135 PHIDBIR-R programs in 22 states. Participants were adults who sustained a brain injury and participated in a PHIDBIR-R program. 57 participants were identified as highest scorers; 10 completed semi-structured interviews. Results: Data were analyzed using constant comparison procedures and rigorous credibility techniques. Thirteen themes within four categories (support, therapies, continuum of care, environment of care) emerged, reflecting participants’ understanding of constructs contributing to positive outcomes. Conclusions: The results provided a cogent framework for program development, stakeholder program selection, and advocate and legislator considerations.