Hugh O'Donnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 6211152 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hugh O'Donnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hugh |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Donnell |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELL H O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0009-0000-4534-6898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historically-Structured Boardgames and Historical Memory Education
This study examines the pedagogical potential of historically-structured boardgames (HSBGs) for teaching contested histories, addressing a gap in simulation-based approaches to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Using Historical Memory Education (HME) as an analytical framework, the paper evaluates how a representative HSBG, The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland (2028), aligns with key pedagogical principles for engaging learners with divisive…
Exploring ethical and moral complexities of the troubles through simulation and empathy
Purpose This study investigates whether historically structured board game (HSBG) simulations can foster historical empathy and moral reasoning when teaching the Northern Ireland Troubles – a contested history largely absent from formal curricula. It examines participant perceptions of simulation appropriateness, the relationship between empathy and moral justification and how demographic factors shape engagement with politically sensitive histor…
Simulating the troubles
The design of The Troubles
Reporting the Road to Brexit
This edited collection brings together leading international scholars to explore the connection between Brexit and the media. The referendum and the activism on both sides of the campaign have been of significant interest to the media in the UK and around the world. How these factors have been represented in the media and the role of the media in constructing the referendum narrative are central to assisting the development in our understanding o…
Reporting the Road to Brexit
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Measuring up? Non-profit and commercial language policies in Gaelic-speaking Scotland
The juxtaposition of majority and minority languages gives rise to issues of language rights, maintenance and promotion. Within organisations, language policies can be used to direct language use and encourage bilingual or multilingual practice. However, critical attention to the component parts of language policies is currently fixed on the public governmental sector. This paper presents the findings of a textual analysis of two organisations' G…
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
High Drama, Low Key
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
Fitba Crazy? Saturday Super Scoreboard and the Dialectis of Political Debate
Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities
(2000). Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate? Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-22
Mapping the Mythical
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
Mapping the Mythical
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
High Drama, Low Key
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
Mapping the Mythical
This article examines a number of stereotypes of national character which appear regularly in the sports reporting of 15 European countries. Having documented the major stereotypes, it argues that, though apparently independent, they should be seen as local entry-points into a much larger discursive network. This network constitutes a macrodiscourse which is geopolitical in scope, its ideological function being to further local elite interests by…
Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities
(2000). Current developments in media sport, and the politics of local identities: A ‘postmodern’ debate? Culture, Sport, Society: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 1-22
Fitba Crazy? Saturday Super Scoreboard and the Dialectis of Political Debate
High Drama, Low Key
This paper is the (no doubt provisional) result of an attempt to analyse the long-running serials recently and currently available on Spanish television—in both its state-wide and its “autonomous” institutional forms—on the basis of what seemed at first sight to be relatively obvious, and straightforward, stylistic differences. Programmes like Goenkale in the Basque Country, El cor de la ciutat in Catalonia or Arrayaacuten in Andalusia seemed for…
Measuring up? Non-profit and commercial language policies in Gaelic-speaking Scotland
The juxtaposition of majority and minority languages gives rise to issues of language rights, maintenance and promotion. Within organisations, language policies can be used to direct language use and encourage bilingual or multilingual practice. However, critical attention to the component parts of language policies is currently fixed on the public governmental sector. This paper presents the findings of a textual analysis of two organisations' G…
Telling it like it is? Social and linguistic realism in Scottish and Catalan soaps
Those involved in the production of soap operas frequently make strong claims regarding the particularly close relationship between their products and ‘reality’, simultaneously distancing themselves from any suggestion of ‘construction’. Perhaps the best-known such claim (in the UK at least) was the assertion made by Julia Smith, then producer of the English soap EastEnders, to the effect that ‘we don’t make life, we reflect it’ (Geraghty, 1991: …
Neighbourhood squabbles or claims of right
It is in the explanation of conflicts that narratives of confrontation are most clearly deployed. In the definition of the problems, in the roles embodied by the different subjects, in the lexical choices made when referring to territories or symbolic objects, we establish differences in terms of how such confrontations are (to be) understood. These narratives are articulated through structures which work to construct the origin of the problem, t…
Reporting the Road to Brexit
This edited collection brings together leading international scholars to explore the connection between Brexit and the media. The referendum and the activism on both sides of the campaign have been of significant interest to the media in the UK and around the world. How these factors have been represented in the media and the role of the media in constructing the referendum narrative are central to assisting the development in our understanding o…
Reporting the Road to Brexit
The design of The Troubles
Historically-Structured Boardgames and Historical Memory Education
This study examines the pedagogical potential of historically-structured boardgames (HSBGs) for teaching contested histories, addressing a gap in simulation-based approaches to the Northern Ireland Troubles. Using Historical Memory Education (HME) as an analytical framework, the paper evaluates how a representative HSBG, The Troubles: Shadow War in Northern Ireland (2028), aligns with key pedagogical principles for engaging learners with divisive…
Exploring ethical and moral complexities of the troubles through simulation and empathy
Purpose This study investigates whether historically structured board game (HSBG) simulations can foster historical empathy and moral reasoning when teaching the Northern Ireland Troubles – a contested history largely absent from formal curricula. It examines participant perceptions of simulation appropriateness, the relationship between empathy and moral justification and how demographic factors shape engagement with politically sensitive histor…
Simulating the troubles
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy (3 works) · History (3 works)