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    • 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 ...

    • Connecting Gender, Age and Social Engagement 

      O' Donnell, Deirdre (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Social Structures and cultural norms have powerful prescriptive qualities. I have come to this project with the belief that both gender and age are simultaneously constructed by social and cultural structures, while ...

    • 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 II) 

      M.Phil. in Reformation and Enlightnement Studies (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)

    • 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 Clash of Empires in Africa: The First World War in the British and German Colonies 

      Steinbach, Daniel (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      From its very beginnings the First World War was a global war. The most severe fighting outside Europe took place in the tropical German colonies of the Cameroons and German East Africa (present-day Tanzania), as well as ...

    • 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 ...

    • Harmonia Macrocosmica: Andreas Cellarius, 1596-1665 (Part I) 

      M.Phil. in Reformation and Enlightnement Studies (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      The publication of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1660 represented the completion of an ambitious cartographic project begun over twenty years earlier by the family of Johannes Jansonnius. Jansonnius had ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...

    • Risteard O Glaisne (1927-2003): Scribhneoir, beathaisneisi, iriseoir, craoltoir, muinteoir agus gaeilgeoir 

      ni Ghormain, Caoimhe (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Born in Bandon, Co. Cork in 1927, Risteard O Glaisne was educated at Bandon Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. He is best known in Irish-speaking circles for his books on such diverse subjects as Dr Ian Paisley, ...

    • 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.

    • An Examination of Compositional Writing Instruction in Irish Primary Schools 

      Willoughby, Karen (Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)
      Recent government reports highlight potential delays in the implementation of the revisions to writing instruction outlined in the 1999 English Curriculum for primary schools. Although delays appear to exist, the nature ...

    • LibViz: a visualisation toolkit to support the preservation of the Old Library 

      Ruhland, Kerstin; Trinity College Dublin. Graphics Vision and Visualisation Group; Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Media Informatics Group (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      The Graphics, Vision and Visualisation (GV2) group in TCD's School of Computer Science and Statistics is working with the Preservation and Conservation Department of the Library, to develop a fully interactive 3-D model ...

    • The role of memory in revenge tragedy drama of the early modern period 

      Loughnane, Rory (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      This project addresses the role that memory plays in revenge tragedy drama of the early modern period. The project asserts the primary cultural importance of memory studies in this period, and examines how contemporary ...

    • The Bridge-IT Project: digitally connecting academic research with the wider community in Ireland 

      Redmond, Jennifer; Trinity College Dublin. School of English; Trinity College Dublin. Department of Electrronic and Electrical Engineering; Trinity College Dublin. Library (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      The Bridge-IT Project will interview older men and women in Ireland using multimedia technologies. The data generated from the interviews will be used to produce experimental and highly innovative content that will be ...

    • Spatial music performance with the hexaphonic guitar 

      Bates, Enda (Trinity College Dublin. Long Room Hub, 2008)
      Spatial music can be defined as any form of music in which the spatial location of performers or sounds is used as an explicit compositional parameter. Most spatial music is not performed live but rather consists of either ...