History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • The Iveagh Trust of Dublin: A Constructed Community, 1889-1939 

      O'REILLY, CHLOE MICHELLE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)
      The Iveagh Trust, founded by Sir Edward Cecil Guinness (later Lord Iveagh) in 1890, was a philanthropic housing institution established for the ?amelioration of the condition of the poor labouring classes of Dublin?. It ...

    • Irish physical force republicanism in Britain, 1919-1923 

      Noonan, Gerard (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)
      This thesis studies the activities of Irish republicans - mainly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - in Britain from the outbreak of the war of independence in 1919 to the end of the civil war in 1923. It is based on my ...

    • Interrogation, ill-treatment and intelligence : Northern Ireland, 1971-78 

      Newbery, Samantha (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      Drawing extensively upon archival material, complemented by official reports, legal documents and secondary sources from a range of disciplines, this thesis examines the origins, nature, and outcomes of the alleged systematic ...

    • Defying the IRA : intimidation, coercion and communities in Ireland, 1917-1922 

      Hughes, Brian (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)
      The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the IRA and its communities in Ireland between 1917 and the beginning of the Irish Civil War in June 1922. To do so, it will focus on civilian defiance ...

    • Women in policing in Ireland, 1915-78 : with particular reference to the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, and An Garda Síochána 

      Johnston-Kehoe, John (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)
      This thesis is a thematic historical study of the employment of women on full-time police duty in pre-independent and independent Ireland. It is the product of independent, academic research, conducted under the supervision ...

    • Unearthing a forgotten Medieval Building Technique An Examination of Earth Mortared Stone Construction in Later medieval Ireland (1100-1600AD) 

      MARKLEY, SHIRLEY VERONICA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)
      In Ireland a largely missing domestic medieval settlement record stimulated archaeological research into understanding its absence. Regional field survey of standing later medieval buildings in north-west Ireland combined ...

    • A Rage Without a Home: toryism in Restoration Ireland 

      FURLONG, STEPHEN HENRY (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)
      The present work is a study of toryism and rappareeism, especially with regards to their place in public discourse, between the years 1660 and 1695, encompassing Restoration Ireland, the War of the Two Kings and the initial ...

    • The uses of photography in Ireland 1839-1900 

      Slattery, Peadar (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992)
      Professional photography was introduced to Ireland in 1841 and accepted change contemporaneously with London trends. It expanded in the cities and towns with Belfast and Dublin becoming major centres. By 1881 most counties ...

    • The tower houses of County Kerry 

      McAuliffe, Mary (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992)
      This thesis is a comprehensive study of the tower houses of County Kerry and there is also some reference to the earlier castles of Kerry. In volume 1 all aspects of the tower house are looked into. The tower houses are ...

    • The origins and early development of the Pembroke estate beyond the Grand Canal 1816-1880 

      McAulay, Eve (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)
      This thesis studies the formation and early development of tile Pembroke estate in Dublin, between the years 1816 to 1880. Previously the Fitzwilliam estate, the property was left to the Herbert family of Wilton in 1816, ...

    • Medieval Glendalough : an inter-disciplinary study 

      Long, William Henry (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1997)
      This thesis studies the Early and Later Medieval remains in the valley of Glendalough from different perspectives. All of the remaining field monuments are initially analysed individually with a view to establishing the ...

    • The tower houses of County Wexford 

      Jordan, Albert J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1991)

    • The Ulster plantation in the counties of Armagh and Cavan, 1608-41 

      Hunter, Robert J. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1969)
      Extract from introduction: The background In Ulster to the flight of the earls, which precipitated the adoption of the policy of plantation there, is well known. Already since the battle of Kinsale British institutions and ...

    • The practice and siting of royal inauguration in medieval Ireland 

      FitzPatrick, Elizabeth (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1998)
      This work presents the results of a detailed investigation into the ceremony and landscape setting of royal inauguration in medieval Ireland. Commencing with Giraldus Cambrensis’ controversial account of the king-making ...

    • One phenomenon, Three perspectives. English colonial strategies in Ireland revisited, 1603-1680 

      HINGST, MARIE SOPHIE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)
      Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial system during the early modern period. With regard to developments in the seventeenth century, however, the long-established ...

    • Thanksgivings in the reign of Queen Anne 

      CLAFFEY, HUGH JOSEPH (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)
      Dr. Sacheverell's November 5th Memorial Sermon delivered in St. Paul's in 1709 and the reaction to it unleashed a civic and political maelstrom. The published sermon sold in unpresented volumes, the impeachment of the ...

    • Defending Ireland from the Irish: The Irish Executive’s reaction to Transatlantic Fenianism - 1864-68 

      Devitt, Jerome
      This thesis examines the Irish Executive’s reaction to the threat posed by transatlantic Fenianism from the closing phase of the US Civil War to the end of Fenian activity in the year following the Rising of February/March ...

    • Virtue and vice : religion, social hierarchy and gender in English murder and execution pamphlets, 1570-1620 

      Walker, Patricia (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)
      This dissertation analyses how murder and execution pamphlets reflected and affirmed acceptable patterns of religious belief and social behaviour in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The key sources of this dissertation ...

    • The personal letter as a source for the history of women in Ireland, 1750 - 1830 

      Maxwell, Jane (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)
      The historiography of women in eighteenth-century Ireland has arrived at a key point. In fewer than fifty years it has come close to centre stage on a strengthening foundation of social history. Biography, with its restricted ...

    • De Re Sagittaria 

      Cully, Enda Mary Monica (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992)