History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon : Jacobite at the Regency court 1715 - 1725
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This doctoral thesis examines Jacobite affairs between 1715 and 1725 by means of the Jacobite service of French Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon. It investigates Dillon’s various roles and principal relationships entailed ... -
Colonial prisoners of war and Vichy France, 1940-1942 : experiences and politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis traces the experience and politics surrounding the prisoners of war from the French colonies captured by the Germans in 1940. These colonial prisoners of war (CPOWs) come from across the French Empire to fight ... -
Defend-protect-support : the evolution of the Irish Military 1956-1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis is a study of the evolution of Irish Defence Forces from the period 1956 until 1978. The Coxian approach was used to provide a conceptual framework. Coxian historicism questions how the prevailing system developed ... -
Facts or Fiction? : the Church of Ireland's writting of Irish church history 1838-1870
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis explores a central, but curiously neglected dimension of the cultural and intellectual history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. It addresses the systematic attempt by a group of scholars and academics, ... -
Protestant Ireland and the English Parliament, 1641-1647
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996)This thesis considers the relations between the Protestants of Ireland and the Long Parliament from the outbreak of the 1641 Rising until mid -1647. It aims to show that Ireland was a central concern of Parliament's ... -
The origins of town life in Ireland : spatial integration and urbanization in the kingdom of the Déisi, 700-1100
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis investigates the origins of towns in pre-Norman Ireland by examining a case-study area in southeastern Ireland, the early medieval kingdom of the Déisi. Both documentary and archaeological sources are used to ... -
Nobility and crown. The de Lacy family in Ireland, England and Normandy 1172-1241
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This study of the interplay between magnate and crown in the political careers of Hugh and Walter de Lacy involves a fresh look at the high politics of the Plantagenet Empire from 1172 to 1241. It is hoped, however, that ... -
Unlike Phoenix from the ashes : Republican constructs of the First World War in Weimar Germany 1918-1920
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis seeks to examine the utilisation of the legacy of the First World War in republican press and propaganda as a central focus of the new state’s foundation narrative. Assessing the role of the war in republican ... -
Later medieval cross-cultural interactions : the settlement evidence in the baronies of Overk, county Kilkenny and Clanmahon, county Cavan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis seeks to cast further light on the nature of cross-cultural interactions between the Gaelic-lrish and the Anglo-Normans in high and late medieval Ireland, by examining the archaeological evidence for settlement ... -
A revolution within : loyalty, treason and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis explores some important questions regarding the origins, definitions and applications of loyalty in Ireland between 1913 and 1921. More specifically, it is an inter-disciplinary examination of the often divergent ... -
The Senate and the Civil War 1922-1925 : Prologue, duration and protracted aftermath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The Senate of the Irish Free State is the principal focus of this study. The subject is approached from a variety of perspectives within the specific context of the Irish civil war. The time-frame encompasses the civil war ... -
The Tithe War in Ireland, 1830-1838
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The arguments and narrative contained in this thesis were mainly constructed from a detailed examination of four broad categories of primary sources. Firstly, it was necessary to research the mass of state paper material ... -
Irish economic policy and economic crisis, 1973-79
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis examines Irish economic policy in the period between the two oil shocks of the 1970s, 1973/74 and 1979/80 (hereafter the ‘inter-oil shock period’). Seeking to counter prevailing narratives of Ireland’s relapse ... -
The Crusaders and their enemies : the Latin terminology of group identity in chronicles of the First Crusade
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis examines the collective terminology of identity in a number of Latin chronicles of the First Crusade. It is concerned with the language used by the authors examined here to denote the Latin crusaders, the eastern ... -
The Irish population of London, 1900-14 : connections and disconnections
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis examines Irish people in London from 1900 to 1914. The first part of this thesis examines Irish residential communities. Chapter 1 examines the Irish communities in Inner London by analysing Irish communities ... -
Irish republicanism and the Cold War : Western geo-political state perspectives on crises in Ireland, 1962-1976
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This is a study of state perceptions of subversion in Ireland before and during the Northern Ireland Troubles. The thesis explores the international dimension to the Troubles in the context of the Cold War and the evolution ... -
Religious revolution and social crisis in southwest Scotland and Ulster, 1687-1714
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis compares the experiences of the presbyterians of the west and southwest of Scotland and of the Irish province of Ulster during the twenty-five years following the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1689-90. This was not ... -
The hospital of St John the Baptist, Dublin c. 1188-1539 : a historical and prosopographical analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The hospital of St John the Baptist was founded c. 1188 by Ailred Palmer and his wife. The hospital was located in the western suburb of medieval Dublin, an area which had seen much expansion and development following the ... -
The organisation and operation of Uí Neill kingship in the Irish midlands : Clann Cholmáin c.550-916
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This study traces the fortunes of the midland Uí Néill dynasty Clann Cholmáin from the period of our earliest documentary sources, about the mid-sixth century, until the death of the early tenth certury king Fiann Sinna. ... -
Separatist Ireland and Germany, 1919-23
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis examines Irish separatist foreign policy in 1919-23 through a case study of separatist activities in Germany. Separatists built on initial contacts and the work of local sympathisers in 1919-20 to establish a ...
