Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Furnished insular Scandinavian burial : artefacts & landscape in the early Viking age
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Gaelicisation and identity in the 'four obedient shires' of Ireland, 1399-1534
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis examines gaelicisation in the ‘four obedient shires’ of the English colony in Ireland from 1399-1543. This region was thought of by contemporaries, and subsequently has been treated by historians, as the most ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gladstone, Irish nationalism and the Home Rule question, 1882-93, with particular reference to the Ulster problem
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1984) -
Government policy, strategies of negotiation and the politics of protest in early seventeenth-century Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the reaction of Irish Catholics to government policy from the accession of James I in 1603 to the arrival of Thomas Wentworth in 1633. During this period the Dublin ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
Guerrilla warfare and the dynamics of violence in the Irish War of Independence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)Drawing on a long tradition of area studies on irregular warfare and county studies in Irish history, this thesis examines the Irish War of Independence in the counties of Dublin and Roscommon. The thesis centres on the ... -
History and Identity in Restoration Ireland, 1660-91
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis demonstrates how history mattered in the politics and society of seventeenth-century Ireland, how authors used the distant past in their arguments about the post-Restoration political and religious settlement ... -
The History of Ireland's Marine Fisheries, 1500 to 1603
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis illuminates the history of Irish fisheries from 1500 to 1603 by utilising a range of digital research methods. Previous monographs on the history of Irish fisheries have been unfocused and anecdotal. In contrast, ... -
Hugh Bishop of Die and Archbishop of Lyons (1073-1106) : an agent of papal reform in France
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996)The aim of the thesis is to examine the career of Hugh of Die and Lyons and to evaluate his position as the principal agent of the papal reform movement in France. -
Hutcheson in Dublin: the crucible of his thought
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Imaging the Byzantines : Latin perceptions, representations, and memory, c.1095-c.1230
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)On 16 April 1204, Constantinople fell to the armies of the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire was dismembered among its conquerors. More than six hundred years later, a controversy over the diversion of the Fourth ... -
In Search of a Cultural Republic: Intellectual and Literary Periodical Publishing in Dublin 1930-55
The subject of this thesis is intellectual and literary periodical publishing in Dublin from 1930 to 1955. Close analysis has focused on The Capuchin Annual, The Dublin Magazine, Motley, Ireland To-Day, Commentary, The ... -
?An Incalculable Amount of Misery?: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3 and the South Dublin Union
(2018)From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ... -
Interrogation, ill-treatment and intelligence : Northern Ireland, 1971-78
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Drawing extensively upon archival material, complemented by official reports, legal documents and secondary sources from a range of disciplines, this thesis examines the origins, nature, and outcomes of the alleged systematic ... -
Inventing fascism : Benito Mussolini and the Great War 1914-1919
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The thesis analyses the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini in the First World War and in the winter and spring following the armistice. It seeks to locate Mussolini's position in relation to the State's reluctance ... -
Inventing the commercial consumer : an historical study of Books I and II of David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)The aim of the thesis is to present a contextualised interpretation of David Hume’s theory of the individual in Books I and II of A Treatise of Human Nature. The Introduction (Chapter 1) argues that insufficient attention ... -
Ireland and Chartism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1959) -
Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa, 1955-75 : a changing mission
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis uses the example of sub-Saharan as a framework through which to analyse the evolution of Irish foreign policy between 1955 and 1975. It was a period of considerable change. When Ireland joined the United Nations ...
