Michael O’connell
Biographic Data
| ID | 4345939 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O’connell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O’connell |
| SIGNATURE | O’CONNELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5600-5957 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 130 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
A Comparison of Crime Victims’ Rights Laws in Six Countries: For Victims Is It ‘Same, Same But Different’
This article critically examines the comparative implementation of crime victims’ rights in India, Australia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Pakistan and South Korea, with particular attention to procedural justice, institutional accountability and victim agency. Drawing on statutory frameworks and research, it examines whether recognition of victims’ rights leads to participation and protection. Despite legislative reforms, disparities persist in enforce…
Fiscal flows and asset prices
This paper investigates whether incorporating daily U.S. fiscal flows improves the explanatory power of traditional asset pricing models. Using data from October 2005 to April 2024, we assess model performance through both classical alpha testing and Bayesian model comparison following the framework of Bryzgalova, Huang, and Julliard (2023). The results show that the inclusion of the fiscal flow measure reduces average alpha across a variety of t…
Why are students attending fee-charging second-level schools in Ireland more likely to progress to high-demand university degree courses? Evidence from the Growing Up in Ireland longitudinal survey
A small minority of Irish students attend fee-charging second-level schools. However, media analyses of the backgrounds of those students who go on to more sought-after tertiary educational institutions or degree courses suggest that a disproportionate number of them were attendees at fee-charging schools. There are a few reasons why this might be the case. In this analysis, the longitudinal data points of the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) study ar…
Holocene vegetation and flora dynamics of the west Cork/Kerry region, south-western Ireland
Sediments from a small lake, Loch Beag, in Barrees, Beara peninsula, south-western Ireland, provide a record of vegetation history that spans most of the Lateglacial and Holocene (14–0.43 ka). The detailed part of the record relates to the Holocene, which is the focus of this paper. The investigations carried out include pollen and macrofossil analyses, loss-on-ignition measurements and 14 C dating. As well as providing records for tree and shrub…
Exploring posttraumatic growth in individuals bereaved by suicide: A secondary data analysis of a national survey
This article explores the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) in individuals bereaved by suicide. The present study employs an exploratory approach to examine secondary data from a national survey. A sample of 2369 ( n = 2369) responses were examined. Various instruments were utilized to assess grief experiences, social support, and personal growth. Descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and a hierarchical regression model were used to …
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice
Gender differences in vulnerability to maternal depression during early adolescence: Girls appear more susceptible than boys
Maternal depression has consistently demonstrated reliability as a predictor of major depression in children. However, the effect of gender as a potential moderator remains under‐researched. This study examined gender differences in depression and hypothesized that maternal depression would be more greatly associated with depression in girls by early adolescence. A representative sample of 7237 participants from the Growing Up in Ireland national…
Aggression and Consistency of Self in Cybertrolling Behavior
While varying greatly across the population, aggression is a trait that is felt and displayed by most. Online, a form of aggression is cybertrolling, one of many types of cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is a harmful online behavior that is difficult to predict and prevent. To address this issue, this study examines offline aggression and online aggression (cybertrolling behavior) and the consistencies or discrepancies between offline and online self…
Unruly Audiences and the Theater of Control in Early Modern London
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Aran Islands, Western Ireland: Farming History and Environmental Change, Reconstructed from Field Surveys, Historical Sources, and Pollen Analyses
The Aran Islands are exceptional cultural landscapes at the Atlantic fringe of Europe. They are strongly influenced by human settlement and small-scale farming that is still pursued according to traditional practices. Reconstruction of changes in farming from the beginning of the early 20th century onwards, and demographic changes beginning in the early 19th century, are discussed in the light of official statistics. Field surveys, aimed mainly a…
Same Crime: Different Punishment? Investigating Sentencing Disparities Between Irish and Non-irish Nationals in the Irish Criminal Justice System
Ireland’s economic growth from the late 1990s prompted sustained and diverse inward migration, resulting in substantial changes in the population and reshaping the social and cultural landscape. These shifts have also been visible among those processed by the criminal justice system, with a marked increase in the number of non-Irish nationals committed to Irish prisons. International research suggests that racism is a significant issue within cri…
Mid- and late-Holocene environmental change in western Ireland: New evidence from coastal peats and fossil timbers with particular reference to relative sea-level change
The results of radiocarbon dating and dendrochronological investigations of timbers (mainly pine and oak) preserved in coastal peats on the Atlantic coast of mid-western Ireland are reported. These are complemented by the results of pollen analytical investigations, including a detailed pollen profile from Lough Atalia, a brackish lake located within present-day Galway city and immediately to the east of the medieval town. The results from the fo…
The Glorious Impossible”
Alice McDermott’s work is often cited as being an exemplar of the best that contemporary Catholic literature has to offer, and yet sustained close readings of her fiction are lacking. In this essay, I discuss how her work fits in the larger conversation about contemporary literature of belief, focusing on her novels Charming Billy and Someone . In Charming Billy , McDermott connects the act of storytelling to the practice of belief, emphasizing h…
Changes in Roman Catholic Beliefs and Practices in Ireland between 1981 and 2008 and the Emergence of the Liberal Catholic
This study aimed to investigate the changes that have occurred in the religious beliefs and practices of Roman Catholics in Ireland between 1981 and 2008 and to examine the extent to which Catholics have become liberal in their attitudes towards social issues over this period. Data were derived from 23 religious indicators and six social items sourced from the European Values Study (EVS). Only Roman Catholic respondents (n=3810) were included in …
A 7000-year record of environmental change, including early farming impact, based on lake-sediment geochemistry and pollen data from County Sligo, western Ireland
Detailed, chronologically tightly constrained, lake-sediment-based geochemical and pollen records have enabled local changes in soil erosion, woodland cover and composition, and prehistoric farming impact to be reconstructed in considerable detail. The profile opens shortly after 7800 BC when tall canopy trees were well-established and presumably in equilibrium with their environment. A distinct perturbation that involved an increase in pine and …
Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Environmental change and the expansion of late Neolithic cultures in central and western Europe: An overview of the evidence provided by high-resolution palaeoecological records
Early Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics with particular reference to the 8.2 ka event: Pollen and macrofossil evidence from a small lake in western Ireland
The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second‐level students
Early school‐leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties in school, deprived economic background and disengagement with the educational process. The attitudes and background of a representative sample of 1311 Irish second‐level students were assessed. Data were gathered on intentio…
Flow Among Musicians: Measuring Peak Experiences of Student Performers
“Flow” is a highly coveted yet elusive state of mind that is characterized by complete absorption in the task at hand as well as by enhanced skilled performance. Unfortunately, because most measures of this construct have been developed in physical activity and sport settings, little is known about the applicability of flow scales to the experiences of performers in other domains such as music. To fill this gap in the research literature, the pre…
Late Holocene land-use and vegetation dynamics in an upland karst region based on pollen and coprophilous fungal spore analyses: An example from the Burren, western Ireland
Victimology: A Social Science in Waiting
Victimology was first proposed as a social science in the 1940s during a shift in interest in victims to gain a better understanding of crime. The early victimologists focused on the role that victims played in crime, which resulted in the concept that some victims contribute to, or precipitate, their victimisation. Later victimologists focused on the process of victimisation, including the treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. The…
Achievement-related attitudes and the fate of “at-risk” groups in society
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
The Need for a Federal, Australia-Wide Approach to Issues Concerning Crime Victims
There are now a number of significant Federal crimes that do involve natural persons as crime victims; there are more international instruments and issues that concern victims; and benefits and support for crime victims have increased, raising important Federal questions where crimes are committed overseas against Australians or where residents of one Australian jurisdiction are victimised in another jurisdiction. It is the major contention of th…
Late Holocene land-use and vegetation dynamics in an upland karst region based on pollen and coprophilous fungal spore analyses: An example from the Burren, western Ireland
Taking Wrongs Seriously: Public Perceptions of Crime Seriousness
This article sets out to investigate three issues central to the study of the public perception of crime seriousness, based on empirical data arising from a survey of a representative sample of Irish (Dublin) citizens. The firstissue is that of the ‘meaning’ of seriousness and some evidence is found for the notion that seriousness may be a complex variable reflecting the relative weights given to the wrongfulness and harmfulness of an offence. Se…
Interpretation of charcoal and pollen data relating to a late Iron Age ritual site in eastern Ireland: A holistic approach
Economic forces and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe: A paradox in search of an explanation
Greater economic hardship is widely conceived as conducive to higher \nlevels of majority hostility towards minority groups. Research in the classical social- \npsychological tradition as well as data on political trends support such a view. \nHowever, more recent survey and experimental findings cast doubt on the economic \ndeprivation model of out-group hostility. O’Connell examines responses to sections \nof the European Social Survey that sug…
Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias
Despite relatively low crime rates, the Irish public believes itself to be experiencing a law and order crisis. In this article, it is argued that a plausible explanation for the public misperception is the distorted image of crime in the media. A sample of over 2000 Irish newspaper articles dealing with crime is analysed and it is argued that there are four ways in which the press skews the representation of crime. These are the bias towards ext…
Early Holocene vegetation and climate dynamics with particular reference to the 8.2 ka event: Pollen and macrofossil evidence from a small lake in western Ireland
Flow Among Musicians: Measuring Peak Experiences of Student Performers
“Flow” is a highly coveted yet elusive state of mind that is characterized by complete absorption in the task at hand as well as by enhanced skilled performance. Unfortunately, because most measures of this construct have been developed in physical activity and sport settings, little is known about the applicability of flow scales to the experiences of performers in other domains such as music. To fill this gap in the research literature, the pre…
Palaeolimnological impacts of early prehistoric farming at Lough Dargan, County Sligo, Ireland
Tephrostratigraphy of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland: Implications for Holocene tephrochronology in the northeastern Atlantic region
Twelve definable cryptotephra layers younger than c. 8600cal. BP are reported from lacustrine core material taken from An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland. The geochemistry of these shard layers, which represent more Holocene tephras than previously geochemically characterized from any European site outside the proximal volcanic influence of Italy or Iceland, is presented. Of these tephras, four may correlate with known Iceland-…
The importance of parental ability for cognitive ability and student achievement: Implications for social stratification theory and practice
Same Crime: Different Punishment? Investigating Sentencing Disparities Between Irish and Non-irish Nationals in the Irish Criminal Justice System
Ireland’s economic growth from the late 1990s prompted sustained and diverse inward migration, resulting in substantial changes in the population and reshaping the social and cultural landscape. These shifts have also been visible among those processed by the criminal justice system, with a marked increase in the number of non-Irish nationals committed to Irish prisons. International research suggests that racism is a significant issue within cri…
Victimology: A Social Science in Waiting
Victimology was first proposed as a social science in the 1940s during a shift in interest in victims to gain a better understanding of crime. The early victimologists focused on the role that victims played in crime, which resulted in the concept that some victims contribute to, or precipitate, their victimisation. Later victimologists focused on the process of victimisation, including the treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. The…
Anti 'Social Capital'. Civic Values versus Economic Equality in the EU
The concept of social capital proposes that societies with denser social networks tend to have more effective political institutions, be more cohesive and record stronger economic performances. However the causal foundations of this influential model have not been critically examined. Some evidence put forward in Putnam's analysis of the Italian regions is questioned. An empirical assessment of the model in relation to European Union member state…
Changes in Roman Catholic Beliefs and Practices in Ireland between 1981 and 2008 and the Emergence of the Liberal Catholic
This study aimed to investigate the changes that have occurred in the religious beliefs and practices of Roman Catholics in Ireland between 1981 and 2008 and to examine the extent to which Catholics have become liberal in their attitudes towards social issues over this period. Data were derived from 23 religious indicators and six social items sourced from the European Values Study (EVS). Only Roman Catholic respondents (n=3810) were included in …
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
Post‐materialist values and political preference: Some unlikely findings from Northern Ireland
Post–materialist values (PMVs) in Northern Ireland are less widespread than in most European countries. This is in accordance with Inglehart's argument that PMVs are less likely to arise among groups that have spent their formative years in physical and economic insecurity. However there has also been an increase in PMVs since the early 1970s which has continued steadily into the 1980s when the cohort which spent its formative years in the ‘Troub…
Growth in career earnings and the role of achievement-related traits
Holocene vegetation and flora dynamics of the west Cork/Kerry region, south-western Ireland
Sediments from a small lake, Loch Beag, in Barrees, Beara peninsula, south-western Ireland, provide a record of vegetation history that spans most of the Lateglacial and Holocene (14–0.43 ka). The detailed part of the record relates to the Holocene, which is the focus of this paper. The investigations carried out include pollen and macrofossil analyses, loss-on-ignition measurements and 14 C dating. As well as providing records for tree and shrub…
Exploring posttraumatic growth in individuals bereaved by suicide: A secondary data analysis of a national survey
This article explores the concept of posttraumatic growth (PTG) in individuals bereaved by suicide. The present study employs an exploratory approach to examine secondary data from a national survey. A sample of 2369 ( n = 2369) responses were examined. Various instruments were utilized to assess grief experiences, social support, and personal growth. Descriptive statistics, correlational analysis and a hierarchical regression model were used to …
The predictors of the intention to leave school early among a representative sample of Irish second‐level students
Early school‐leaving exerts substantial costs on the individual and society. The literature indicates that quitting school early is predicted by an enmeshed group of indicators including academic and behavioural difficulties in school, deprived economic background and disengagement with the educational process. The attitudes and background of a representative sample of 1311 Irish second‐level students were assessed. Data were gathered on intentio…
Achievement-related attitudes and the fate of “at-risk” groups in society
Institutionalization and Cognitive Functioning of Schizophrenics
Cognitive dysfunctions, which are frequently attributed as wholly due to schizophrenia, may partly arise from the institutionalization to which schizophrenics are subjected rather than from schizophrenia itself. To test this, 60 schizophrenics were divided into 4 groups on the basis of total duration of disorder and percent time spent in an institution. When their Rorschach protocols were rated blindly, total institutionalization time had a signi…
Music and Sense in Handel's Setting of Milton's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso
MORE THAN ANY OTHER BAROQUE COMPOSER, Handel has provided us with fortunate conjunctions of music and English poetry. Among his successful unions of voice and verse, none is more ambitious in its attempt to advance poetic meaning than his setting of Milton's L'Allegro and II Penseroso. But even to recognize such ambition, to employ music to advance the meaning of a text, compels us to acknowledge our distance from what the eighteenth century unde…
Uselessness of APA's clinical journals
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm, Anti-Theatricalism, and the Image of the Elizabethan Theater
Festschrift: Udelgard körber-grohne: Der prahistorische Mensch and seine Umwelt
The Theater of Devotion: East Anglian Drama and Society in the Late Middle Ages
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Report on the 8th International Palynological Congress, Aix-en-Provence, 1992
Taking Wrongs Seriously: Public Perceptions of Crime Seriousness
This article sets out to investigate three issues central to the study of the public perception of crime seriousness, based on empirical data arising from a survey of a representative sample of Irish (Dublin) citizens. The firstissue is that of the ‘meaning’ of seriousness and some evidence is found for the notion that seriousness may be a complex variable reflecting the relative weights given to the wrongfulness and harmfulness of an offence. Se…
The Specter of Dido: Spenser and Virgilian Epic
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Is Irish Public Opinion towards Crime Distorted by Media Bias
Despite relatively low crime rates, the Irish public believes itself to be experiencing a law and order crisis. In this article, it is argued that a plausible explanation for the public misperception is the distorted image of crime in the media. A sample of over 2000 Irish newspaper articles dealing with crime is analysed and it is argued that there are four ways in which the press skews the representation of crime. These are the bias towards ext…
The Idolatrous Eye: Iconoclasm and Theater in Early-Modern England
This study argues that the century after the Reformation saw a crisis in the way that Europeans expressed their religious experience. Focusing specifically on how this crisis affected the drama of England, O’Connell shows that Reformation culture was preoccupied with idolatry and that the theatre was frequently attacked as idolatrous. This anti-theatricalism notably targeted the traditional cycles of mystery plays--a type of vernacular, popular b…
Post‐materialist values and political preference: Some unlikely findings from Northern Ireland
Post–materialist values (PMVs) in Northern Ireland are less widespread than in most European countries. This is in accordance with Inglehart's argument that PMVs are less likely to arise among groups that have spent their formative years in physical and economic insecurity. However there has also been an increase in PMVs since the early 1970s which has continued steadily into the 1980s when the cohort which spent its formative years in the ‘Troub…
Practicing Renaissance Scholarship: Plays and Pageants, Patrons and Politics
David M. Bergeron, Practicing Renaissance Scholarship: Plays and Pageants, Patrons and Politics. Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 2000. ix + 221 pp. $55. ISBN: 0-8207-0313-3. - Volume 54 Issue 4-Part2
Anti 'Social Capital'. Civic Values versus Economic Equality in the EU
The concept of social capital proposes that societies with denser social networks tend to have more effective political institutions, be more cohesive and record stronger economic performances. However the causal foundations of this influential model have not been critically examined. Some evidence put forward in Putnam's analysis of the Italian regions is questioned. An empirical assessment of the model in relation to European Union member state…
Holocene vegetation and land-use dynamics in the karstic environment of Inis Oı́rr, Aran Islands, western Ireland: Pollen analytical evidence evaluated in light of the archaeological record
Tephrostratigraphy of An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, western Ireland: Implications for Holocene tephrochronology in the northeastern Atlantic region
Twelve definable cryptotephra layers younger than c. 8600cal. BP are reported from lacustrine core material taken from An Loch Mór, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands, western Ireland. The geochemistry of these shard layers, which represent more Holocene tephras than previously geochemically characterized from any European site outside the proximal volcanic influence of Italy or Iceland, is presented. Of these tephras, four may correlate with known Iceland-…
Fairly satisfied: Economic equality, wealth and satisfaction
Economic forces and anti-immigrant attitudes in Western Europe: A paradox in search of an explanation
Greater economic hardship is widely conceived as conducive to higher \nlevels of majority hostility towards minority groups. Research in the classical social- \npsychological tradition as well as data on political trends support such a view. \nHowever, more recent survey and experimental findings cast doubt on the economic \ndeprivation model of out-group hostility. O’Connell examines responses to sections \nof the European Social Survey that sug…
Interpretation of charcoal and pollen data relating to a late Iron Age ritual site in eastern Ireland: A holistic approach
The Need for a Federal, Australia-Wide Approach to Issues Concerning Crime Victims
There are now a number of significant Federal crimes that do involve natural persons as crime victims; there are more international instruments and issues that concern victims; and benefits and support for crime victims have increased, raising important Federal questions where crimes are committed overseas against Australians or where residents of one Australian jurisdiction are victimised in another jurisdiction. It is the major contention of th…
Growth in career earnings and the role of achievement-related traits
Early Responses to Renaissance Drama
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Victimology: A Social Science in Waiting
Victimology was first proposed as a social science in the 1940s during a shift in interest in victims to gain a better understanding of crime. The early victimologists focused on the role that victims played in crime, which resulted in the concept that some victims contribute to, or precipitate, their victimisation. Later victimologists focused on the process of victimisation, including the treatment of victims in the criminal justice system. The…
Achievement-related attitudes and the fate of “at-risk” groups in society
Fine-spatial Paleoecological Investigations Towards Reconstructing Late Holocene Environmental Change, Landscape Evolution, and Farming Activity in Barrees, Beara Peninsula, Southwestern Ireland
Long-term environmental change and human impact have been reconstructed at fine spatial and temporal resolutions in an archaeologically rich, and floristically interesting, part of southwestern Ireland, namely the Beara peninsula, County Cork. Detailed pollen and macrofossil analyses, and radiocarbon dating have been carried out on several short peat monoliths, and on a peat core and a lake core from small basins. Landscape evolution, vegetation …
Psychology (19 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Holocene (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)