Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Identity"
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'The development of Irish identity: political aspiration and literary conceptions, 600-919
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis examines the development of an Irish identity in the early medieval period. It covers roughly three centuries, from 600 to 919, and it focuses for the most part on the formation of an Irish political identity, ... -
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 ... -
Justice for all? Access by ethnic groups to the English royal courts in Ireland, 1252-1318
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The notion that all Gaelic people were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in c.1169, has become so established in the national consciousness of Ireland ... -
Writing Ireland in the Latin chronicles and histories of early Plantagenet England
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers a fresh examination of Latin writers' attitudes towards and depictions of Ireland, its affairs and its people in early Plantagenet England. Moving beyond the 'Geraldine paradigm' that has hitherto now ...
