History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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The tower houses of County Tipperary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1984)This thesis examines the form and purpose of the minor castles in one Irish county, with some notice taken of those elsewhere in Ireland and abroad. It uses as evidence the remains of buildings, and printed and manuscript ... -
Conscience and allegiance : an investigation into the controversy over Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy during the Reign of William III and William II, 1689 - 1702
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)In the winter of 1688-9 King James II and VII fled Britain and was replaced on the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland by his son-in-law William of Orange and daughter Mary in events known as the Glorious Revolution. ... -
Personal financial management in early eighteenth-century Ireland: practices, participants and outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines the modalities, practices, and options available to, the attitudes towards, and the potential results achievable by personal financial managers in Ireland in the early decades of the eighteenth century.The ... -
Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The propaganda and electioneering battles that were conducted by nationalists and unionists, separatists and socialists during the latter end of the Great War and after the armistice compelled transformation and instigated ... -
'...and that created terror'. The dynamics of civilian-combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)" ..and that created terror". The dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923 This thesis explores the dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry in the Irish revolutionary ... -
Partition, women, and social policy, 1921-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis analyses how the partition of Ireland affected state social intervention into women?s lives in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It begins its study with the opening of Stormont, the northern parliament, ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
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 ... -
Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Permanent revolutionaries : the I.R.B. and the Land War in Skull, Co.Cork, 1879-82
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis examines the Irish Republican Brotherhood at a grassroots level and its involvement in the Irish National Land League and the Land War, 1879-82 in Co. Cork with an emphasis on the grassroots organisers in West ... -
It's all a matter of balanced tensions : Irish medical missionaries in Nigeria, 1937-1967
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Prior to 1936 Catholic nuns were forbidden by canon law from practising medicine or midwifery, as these were deemed a threat to their vows of chastity and obedience. Only after a lengthy campaign of propaganda and action ... -
A history of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines) were founded in Tullow, County Carlow, by Dr Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1807. These nuns were part of the unusually fast expansion of simple-vowed congregations ... -
Legal position and living conditions of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland, c.680 - c.1170
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis discusses the non-noble classes of early medieval Ireland under the categories of 'commoner' - a hereditary landowning freeman of non-noble status, most typically termed in Irish bóaire; 'peasant' - a semi-free ... -
A Great and Sudden Change : Lord Castlereagh, economic reform, and the transformation of post-Napoleonic politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Utilizing a political history approach, this thesis presents an account of two distinct, but interrelated narratives of change. Firstly, it presents Castlereagh’s political thought as a process, and seeks to present ... -
The Shirley estate 1814-1906 : the development and demise of a landed estate in County Monaghan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The following is a study of the semi-absentee Shirley estate situated in south Ulster in the barony of Farney, County Monaghan 'on the edge of a great belt of drumlins that sweep from County Down to North Connaught’. The ... -
Ulster loyalism, Ulster unionism and the Irish State, 1970-85
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is the first specialised study into the relationship between Ulster Loyalists, Ulster Unionists and the Irish State during the Northern Ireland conflict. Ulster loyalists are defined as the representatives, ... -
Power and authority : a comparative study of martial law in early Stuart Ireland, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The central aim of this thesis is to provide a comparative assessment of the operation of martial law in Ireland, by demonstrating the dominance of government by the military interest, the impact of martial ideology and ... -
Entertainment in early Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)The role of entertainment in any society offers an important window onto its values, customs, culture and traditions. The socio-economic and political importance of play and entertainment is demonstrated by its inclusion ... -
Dublin reformed : the transformation of the municipal governance of a Victorian city, 1840-1860
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)This thesis investigates the reform of Dublin Corporation and its activities from 1840 until the early 1860s. Nineteenth-century Dublin in particular has been overlooked in Irish historiography and, consequently, in general ... -
The development of Irish refugee policy through the prism of the state's foreign policy objectives, 1935 - 1973
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This dissertation asserts that refugee policy was utilised throughout the mid-twentieth century by the Irish government in order to facilitate the successful pursuit of its foreign policy objectives. The period in question, ...
