History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Hitler as military commander : from Blau to Edelweiß, January - November 1942
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)The following thesis addresses the role of Adolf Hitler as a military commander from a subjective point of view. It deals with his strategy in relation to the war against the Soviet Union in 1942 as well as his operational ... -
Youth movements and Ireland, 1888-1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The methodologies used in this thesis have been empirical and statistical research. Employing these methods has situated these organisations in their proper historical context and provided vital information about the ... -
The social and economic impact of the Williamite war on Ireland, 1689-91
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)Events during the Williamite war in Ireland (1689-91) such as the siege of Derry, the battle of the Boyne and the signing of the treaty of Limerick, remain well-known incidents in popular Irish history, while the Jacobite ... -
Conscription, community and counter-revolution, the Aveyron : 1780-1820
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis investigates the part of conscription in resistance to the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, in a rural environment in south-central France. Of necessity it also examines local economic, religious and ... -
The confederacy of pirates in early seventeenth century southwest Ireland : trade plunder and settlement : a historical and archaeological study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This study of piracy in the early part of the seventeenth century in southwest Ireland combined the disciplines of history, archaeology and cartography. Contemporary documentary and printed sources combined with secondary ... -
The 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ireland : a Leinster perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)The ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic killed between 40 and 100 million people during 1918 and 1919, infecting an estimated one fifth or more of the world’s population. It disrupted society and economies, debilitated the armed ... -
Crime and policing in Dublin, Brisbane and London c.1850-1900
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The aim of this project was to examine the Dublin Metropolitan Police, its history and structure, from the perspective of the men who made up the force, their history and the impact they had on other contemporary policing ... -
The anglicisation of the Gaelic Irish nobility c.1169-c.1366
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis explores the extent to which the Gaelic Irish nobility became acculturated in the circa two hundred years after the English invasion, and the forms which this Anglicisation took. The subject is examined in three ... -
Peace-making and propaganda: an examination of alternate succession as a means of justification and consolidation of power in early medieval Ireland, c. 500-1000
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2025)This thesis is an examination of the role and function of alternate succession as it existed in early medieval Ireland, as well as in areas of Irish influence in Scotland. Alternate succession refers to a phenomenon whereby ... -
The English Elite's Perceptions of Marine Life in the North Atlantic, c. 1550-1640
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, Department of History, School of Histories and Humanities, 2025)This thesis examines the English elite's perceptions of marine life in the North Atlantic world by presenting a narrative account of the experiences of the elite during their westward voyages to the North Atlantic, exploring ... -
Imagining Ireland's self-governed economic future, 1893-1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2025)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 ... -
The Work of Art in the Age of Recombinant Appropriation: Exploring Data Curation in the GLAM sector through Classical Art Memes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2025)This interdisciplinary dissertation explores the evolution of Walter Benjamin's aura through the lens of Classical Art Memes (CAMs), a unique style of internet meme, which recontextualises digitised works of art with ... -
The impact on Ireland of French maritime warfare, 1692-1713
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Historical research on early-modern Ireland bypassed the period between 1691 and 1770 for a long time. Yet this period saw the beginnings of long-term economic growth that eventually changed Irish society drastically. ... -
Translating Cambrensis : the history of the late medieval English Conquest of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis examines the fifteenth-century English translation of Giraldus Cambrensis’s twelfth-century Expugnatio Hibernica. Interrogating the extant manuscript corpus of this narrative, the Conquest of Ireland, allows ... -
Colonials in conflict : Europeans in British and German East Africa and the First World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis analyses the experience of conflict in the colonies of British and German East Africa in the context of the First World War. In particular, the focus of this research is on the, to date under-examined, perspectives ... -
Dublin's artisans and radical politics 1779 - 1803
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis examines the phenomenon of popular politicization in Dublin c. 1779-1803, particularly the connection between radical politics and early trade unions. It explores the emergence of coherent working class ... -
Internment of the Anti-Treaty I.R.A. in the Irish Free State 1922-4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of Anti-Treaty I.R.A. internment during the Irish Civil War, a period of Irish history, which marked a bitter end to the revolutionary years. On the eve of the Truce in July 1921, there were some ... -
Salus Populi : the eschatological imagination of Saint Peter Damian (c.1007 - 1072)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Peter Damian (c. 1007 - 1072) was an influential voice in the monastic, papal and ecclesiastical movements for spiritual and institutional reform in the eleventh century. He served as a rhetorician in the schools of Northern ... -
Divided neutrality 1914 - 1918 : the impact of the First World War on Swiss Francophone and Swiss Germanophone opinion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis has shown that while neutral Switzerland had its own experience of the First World War, simply opting out of the maelstrom that swept Europe as a whole was not a possibility. Despite neutrality, the war was ... -
Taking Play Seriously: Children's Education and Nation-building in Modern China, 1897-1937
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, School of Histories and Humanities, 2025)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 ...
