The present thesis consists of three parts: a commentary, edition, and translation of the Computus Einsidlensis (CE), an early medieval textbook on the calculation of the date of Easter (computus) from Ireland. The commentary ...

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 ...

The aim of this research was to establish how a self-governed Ireland's economic future had been imagined and evolved during the period 1893-1923 and commence the exploration of the consequent impact on the new state. Along ...

This thesis explores the experience of the female prisoner in the Irish justice system from c.1922-1947. It focuses on that group of women who made up the bulk of those imprisoned by the state -those convicted of relatively ...

This thesis starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted 'power' in a very narrow way. Engagement with the rich corpus of international literature on power reveals the sheer complexity and ...

By the mid-twentieth century missionary activity to pagan countries had become an integral feature of Irish Catholic culture. In 1955 it was estimated that over 4,500 Irish men and women were working abroad with the aim ...

This thesis investigates the development and establishment of a distinctive commemorative culture by British popular radicalism, and in particular by Chartism, in the nineteenth century. At the intersection of memory ...

China’s experience of foreign encroachment in the second half of the nineteenth century was what John Fitzgerald calls a wave of awakening among the intelligentsia. It was in this context that educational reform became ...

Interpretations of the period following the disintegration of the Carolingian empire in Western Europe at the end of the ninth century have long divided historians, between those who believe a violent rupture in political ...