History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • Divorce and civil society during the French Revolution, 1789-1802 

      O'Conaill, Colm (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine the complex interplay between revolutionary society, culture, and politics through an analysis of the revolutionary divorce law introduced in September 1792. The thesis shall examine ...

    • Inventing fascism : Benito Mussolini and the Great War 1914-1919 

      O'Brien, Paul (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 ...

    • The bishops of the Archdiocese of York, c.1200-c.1250 

      Norton, Margaret (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)
      This thesis is a prosopographical study of the prelates of the Archdiocese of York c. 1200-c. 1250. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it seeks to portray the careers of Waiter de Gray, archbishop ...

    • Walk according to the Gospel order' : theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700 

      Hynes, Sandra Maria (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine how epistles and testimonies sent between Quaker meetings in England and Ireland shaped their religious identity and ensured discipline in their communities. The thesis consists of an ...

    • The 'philosophia Christi' of Erasmus 

      Fitzpatrick, Sylvia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)
      The object of this thesis is to demonstrate that underlying all of Erasmus' diverse writing was his own distinctive, consistent and coherent concept of Christianity. He called this the philosophia Christi. The two main ...

    • Inventing the commercial consumer : an historical study of Books I and II of David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature' 

      Finlay, Christopher J. (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 ...

    • The sources and themes of the Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the Investiture Contest in Lotharingia and Burgundy 

      Healy, Patrick (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)
      This thesis is a study of the sources and themes of the late-eleventh century chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny, based on the printed edition of the Chronicon in the Scriptores series of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and ...

    • The IRA under Moss Twomey 1926-1936 

      Hanley, Brian (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)
      This thesis is an examination of the Irish Republican Army in the post revolutionary era. Despite its defeat in the Civil War the IRA could still count its membership in several thousand by the late 1920s. It remained a ...

    • Neither one thing nor the other : The Ulster Protestant community in Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh, 1916 - 1923 

      PURCELL, DANIEL THOMAS (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      Histories of Irish partition and discussions of the Irish border portray the six-county settlement as the most natural division of the island. This formulation provides a false impression of a cohesive Ulster Protestant ...

    • Consuming Behaviours Ireland 1922-1960 

      PORTER, JOHN HUGH (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      This thesis addresses consuming behaviours in Ireland 1922-1960. Few works have previously addressed the history of consumption in twentieth century Ireland, and this work aims to redress this lacuna. Consuming behaviours ...

    • Teaching the nation's past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-1969 

      MAC GEARAILT, COLM (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      This thesis considers the teaching of Irish history in Irish secondary schools post-Independence. It analyses the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and ...

    • The merchant community of Dublin in the early seventeenth century : a social, economic and political study 

      Stapleton, Patricia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)
      This thesis investigates Dublin merchants in the early seventeenth century within the framework of economic, social and political changes that characterised the period. Although sources were hard to come by in some areas ...

    • The elite of Scandinavia and their impact on urban settlement in the Viking age 

      Weimer, Amanda M. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)
      This work investigates large-scale change evident in the archaeology of selected towns in Denmark, Norway, Ireland and England founded by Scandinavians between AD 700 and 1160, and connects these changes to their historical ...

    • Death, sacrifice and mourning in German women's art of the First World War 

      Siebrecht, Claudia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)
      The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1919. In the early stages of the conflict, women's art was employed to rally support for the war effort, to appeal to women's ...

    • Materialising Ireland : archaeology, identity and modernity in Ireland 

      Russell, Ian Alden (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)
      This thesis explores the role of archaeology in the development of modern conceptions of the past in Ireland. The approach contextualises archaeological studies in Ireland within broader psychoanalytic, anthropological and ...

    • The lands of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland 1172-1541 

      Hogan, Arlene (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)
      To analyse the charters contained in the Irish cartularies of the Augustinian priories of Llanthony Prima and Secunda, in order to trace the history of the Llanthony canons during the time that the canons were active in ...

    • Papacy and church : the assertion and reception of Papal authority and justice in the Papal letters, 1143-53 

      Carlson, Frank (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)
      The subject of this thesis is papal authority and administrative practice in the period 1143-53, and how they are reflected through the letters of the papacy. Accordingly, the focus here is on the everyday business of the ...

    • Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33 

      Barry, William Gerard Gearóid (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)
      This study focuses on the cultural legacy of the First World War in France in the period 1914-1933. Specifically, it examines the processes of cultural mobilization and cultural demobilization, key concepts that have ...

    • The British popular press and Ireland, 1922-32 

      PAYNE, ELSPETH (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      Concentrating on the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, this thesis examines the relationship between the British popular press and Ireland across the first decade of Irish independence. Undertaking cover-to-cover ...

    • Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland 1660 -1691 

      SMITH, PAUL GERARD (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      By 1660, the Common Law was widely, if not universally, applied in Ireland. For the English and Protestant interest, the law was the principal means of enforcing the mandate of the administration, short of military ...