PhD, research masters and taught masters theses completed by previous students can be a valuable source of information.
Copies of theses can be found online at a number of locations.
You might start with Research@THEA for institute of technology theses, RIAN for Irish university theses and OPENDOAR for international theses. You could also try the research repositories of individual institutions such as Dublin Institute of Technology.
Research@THEA contains theses, research articles and other material from the Irish institutes of technology.