History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Wealth, Violance and Status: Lay and Ecclesiastical Élites in the Middle Loire Valley, c. 850- c. 1150
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)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 ... -
Kingship, lordship, and resistance: a study of power in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)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 ... -
Languages of war: How Italian combat officers wrote about the great war 1915-1918
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)An investigation of the impact of the war experience on language, mentalities and writing activity through the analysis of fifteen war writings, including diaries and letter collections. The content, style, writing attitudes ... -
East India company career of Sir Robert Cowen in Bombay and the western Indian ocean, C. 1719-35.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis explores the life and career of Sir Robert Cowan, governor of Bombay 1729-34. The broad date range stretches from 1680 to 1750, whilst the primary focus has been on the period 1719-35. This reflects Cowan's ... -
Debating Contraception, Abortion And Divorce In An Era Of Controversy And Change: New Agendas And RTÉ Radio And Television Programmes 1968-2018
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)The study begins with the publication in 1968 of the papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, forbidding all forms of artificial contraception, and ends in 2018 with the repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, ... -
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 ... -
Completing the Union : the politics of implementation in Ireland, 1801-1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Act of Union came into operation on 1 January 1801. Its implementation took years to effect. By examining the administrations of the three viceroys immediately concerned with implementing the union, Hardwicke, Bedford, ... -
Kingship in the political thought of Pope Gregory V11 (1073 - 85)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Gregory VII is remembered as the pope who initiated the notion of the supremacy of the apostolic see in temporal as well as ecclesiastical matters. The assumption in the twentieth and twenty-first century secondary literature ... -
The life and writings of Odo of Deuil : Abbot of Saint-Denis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)Odo of Deuil is best known in modem historiography as an eyewitness historian of the Second Crusade, having participated in that expedition as the chaplain of King Louis VII of France. Odo's account of the crusade, the De ... -
Anglo-Norman castles and religious foundations in Counties Louth and Down : a comparison with examples in England and Wales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This aim of this thesis is to prove that in the aftermath of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, the buildings constructed by the first wave of settlers reflected the architectural influences of contemporary ... -
For class, nation, race or god? : a transatlantic history of the Irish working class movement, 1889 - 1917
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a cultural study of the Irish working-class movement from 1889 to 1917. The aim of this thesis is to explore how transatlantic networks shaped the way the Irish working-class movement crafted its vision of ... -
Crusader artillery, 1097-1148 : typology, terminology and character
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis aims to investigate the use of artillery in the crusades and the crusader states for the period starting with the 1097 siege of Nicaea and ending with the siege of Damascus in 1148. In this forty-nine year ... -
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 ... -
Alithinologia : John Lynch and seventeenth-century Irish political thought
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis is a study of John Lynch's Alithinologia (St Malo, 1664) and Supplementum alithinologiae (St Malo, 1667). Lynch, Catholic archdeacon of Tuam, was the foremost Irish Catholic intellectual of the second half of ... -
An analysis of the Dublin Guild Merchant Roll c. 1190-1265
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996)The international composition of the population of medieval Dublin is very well reflected in its Guild Merchant Roll. While the document itself cannot give more than a glimpse of the town and its trade, it nonetheless ... -
Parliament and Community: Theory and Practice in the Insular World, c.1399-c.1460
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ... -
The book trade and print culture : a comparative analysis of Belfast and Baltimore 1760-1825
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This project offers a wide-ranging analysis and comparison of the cultures of print in Belfast and Baltimore between 1760 and 1825. Each city and its hinterland have been examined individually and comparatively in order ... -
Culture, politics and the struggle for mastery in Ireland c.1452-1540
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)The fall of the Kildare Geraldines in 1534 has traditionally been seen as the hinge of late medieval and early modern Irish history. In comprehending this period, the collection of documents published in the 1830s as the ... -
Calvin and humanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)Calvin and humanism is an extensive and controversial topic the treatment of which depends to a considerable extent on the type of approach and method adopted. The introduction provides an overview of the special difficulties ... -
Rendering to God and Caesar' : the Irish Churches and the two states in Ireland, 1949-73
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)This study focuses on the Church of Ireland and the Roman Catholic Church, as all-Ireland organizations, in the period 1949 to 1973. It examines the following interrelated questions: what was the impact of the political ...
