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    • Theodore de Mayerne (Part II) 

      M.Phil. in Reformation and Enlightnement Studies (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
    • Parliament, power and patronage, the career of Speaker William Conolly, 1662-1729 

      Walsh, Patrick (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The aim of this project is not to write a biography of Conolly but rather to examine particular facets of his career. His political career has previously been outlined in the political histories of the period and does not ...
    • The Land War in County Westmeath 

      Clarke, Frances (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      In 2003, Trinity College Library acquired the papers of the Smythe family of Barbavilla, Collinstown, Co Westmeath (MS 11198). The collection traces the family's long connection with Westmeath, from their acquisition of ...
    • Moving Histories: Discourses on Irish Women's Emigration to England Examined, 1922-1948 

      Redmond, Jennifer (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This thesis looks at the public and private discourses on Irish women's emigration to England in the post-independence, pre-Republic era.
    • Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Schreber Case 

      Lees, Lorna (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was a lawyer and judge, who wrote and published an account of his experiences in an asylum. This account was analysed by Freud, who believed that Schreber's dementia paranoides was the ...
    • Streets of the Ancient Near East: Design and Decoration 

      Fitzgerald, Aoife (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The cities of the Near East display some of the best archaeological evidence for urban design and decoration in the Roman Empire. The plans of Apamea (Syria), Palmyra (Syria) and Jerash (Jordan) are perfect examples of ...
    • Female artists during the First World War in Germany, 1914-1918 

      Siebrecht, Claudia (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1918. Their artistic interpretation and observations of the conflict represented the artist's own as well as more general wartime ...
    • Dublin Local Politics and Government, 1898 to 1920 

      Wallace, Ciaran (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This research aims to assess the performance of the parties and leading personalities involved in Dublin local politics and government from 1898 to 1920 by tracing newspaper reports, political campaigns and electoral ...
    • DoppleGang's (Sub)Version of Oz 

      Murphy, Megan (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      For the 2006 Dublin Fringe Festival, DoppleGang expanded their performance from a song-based cabaret to a theatre piece with songs, dance, and dialogue. Their performance, entitled 'Oz: A Fairytale Plot,' borrows songs, ...
    • Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: A Poststructuralist Approach 

      Recht, Laerke (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project will provide a theoretical comparative analysis of the archaeological, iconographic and literary evidence concerning sacrifice in the civilisations of the Aegean and Near East in the Bronze Age. It will offer ...
    • Theodore de Mayerne (Part I) 

      M.Phil. in Reformation and Enlightnement Studies (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Theodore de Mayerne was one of Europe's foremost physicians in the early seventeenth century. A Hugenot educated at Montpellier, he moved to Paris upon receiving his doctorate, but soon became embroiled in controversy with ...
    • The "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project: Mapping the Neuro-Architecture of Modernity 

      O' Connor, Theresa (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Like "Second Skin", a dynamic model of architecture pioneered by Marcos Lutyens at the Architectural Association in London, Finnegans Wake asks the reader to extend his/her consciousness to become a co-producer of an ...
    • Merchants and Mobility: Dublin 1760-1800 

      Griffith, Lisa-Marie (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The aim of this project is to examine the fluidity between social classes and to assess the 'openness' of Dublin society in the eighteenth century. It will determine the ability of merchants, in particular, to enter the ...
    • Images of older people in Irish children's books 

      Dickson, Katie; Piesse, Amanda (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This study captures an overview of a variety of images of older people in Irish children's books published in the last fifty years. It examines how different models of the older person function in different texts, and how ...
    • Neither Here nor There: Liminal Space in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence 

      Carroll, Jane Suzanne (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project is concerned with the relationship between Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence and older texts which explore the idea of the border between the world of consensual reality and that of magic and fantasty. ...
    • Beneath the Wine-Dark Sea: Marine Imagery and Artefacts from the Bronze Age Aegean 

      Saunders, Emma (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project began as an attempt to explain why the Minoan islanders developed and nurtured this marine interest, while neighbouring island cultures did not. In order to understand the enduring popularity of the sea in ...
    • Trinity College Dublin Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts 

      O'Mahony, Felicity (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The Manuscripts Department in Trinity College Library houses an internationally-renowned body of medieval manuscripts. At the heart of the Collection are the early Christian manuscripts dating from the seventh to ninth ...
    • A Woman's Way Through Times of Social Change 

      Carpenter, Laura (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This study attempts to track the images and representations of mature women in a long-running Irish women's magazine: Woman's Way, from its inception in 1963, to 1990. In my research I am interested to find out whether ...
    • The History of Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914 

      Harding, Timothy (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This project investigates how and why the once elite game of chess became popular in Victorian times, and the phases of its development up to the caesura caused by the First World War. The research will throw light on ...
    • Wilderness Experience in the Promotion of Sustainable Reconciliation 

      McMullen, Henry G. (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      This research will examine the role and value of wilderness and nature-based activities for the healing of those traumatised by violence, and in the building of sustainable peace.