History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions

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    • The castle in the social and geographical landscape of Cumbria, 1066-1250 A.D. 

      McCabe, Hannah (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      The aim of this thesis, ‘The Castle in the Social and Geographical Landscape of Cumbria, 1066-1250 A.D.’, was to examine the medieval castle within the confines of the county of Cumbria, as defined in 1974. The areas of ...

    • Tower houses and the maritime economy c.1400-1641 : a County Down case study 

      McAlister, Victoria Louise (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)
      This thesis investigates how the population interacted with, and contributed to, the maritime economy by looking at three baronies in coastal County Down. It utilises tower houses and associated settlements as a medium ...

    • The philosopy of the bomb : the Fenian dynamite campaign and the British counter response 1876-1885 

      Kenna, Shane (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)
      [Excerpt from page nine] It will be argued in this thesis that this pervading political grievance was representative of what Thomas Brown has found to be ‘a fierce nationalism ,’ conditioned by a peculiar juxtaposition of ...

    • The life of William Bulfin 1863-1910 

      Harris, Thomas (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)
      In examining the life of William Bulfin, this study relied on three major sources; Bulfin’s journalistic writings, his literary works and his correspondence. These sources proved essential, in exploring the evolution of ...

    • Universities and the Great War : Britain, France, and the United States of America, 1914-1931 

      Irish, Tomás (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)
      This thesis analyses the contribution of universities and university academics to the prosecution of the First World War in Britain, France, and the United States of America. It takes three primary case studies - the ...

    • Official Propaganda in the Irish Free State 

      Hora, Kevin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)
      This thesis examines official propaganda in the Irish Free State. It takes the perspective that propaganda helped build the state and had a beneficial purpose. This differs from traditional views of state propaganda in ...

    • The political influence of the Cromwellian army in Ireland, 1649-1659 

      Higgins Ní Chinnéide, Caitlín (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)
      This thesis examines the political role of the Cromwellian army in Ireland during the interregnum of 1649 to 1660. Despite the importance of this institution, it has received relatively little treatment in the historiography, ...

    • Crown and community on the royal manors of the Liffey valley 

      Foley, Ann (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      This thesis investigates the relationship between the English crown and the four royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons in the later Middle Ages. These manors were situated in south County Dublin and ...

    • Gaelicisation and identity in the 'four obedient shires' of Ireland, 1399-1534 

      Booker, Sparky (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)
      This thesis examines gaelicisation in the ‘four obedient shires’ of the English colony in Ireland from 1399-1543. This region was thought of by contemporaries, and subsequently has been treated by historians, as the most ...

    • The ringwork castles of medieval Leinster and Meath 

      Arbuthnot, Emma (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)
      The aim of this thesis is to examine the evidence for ringwork castles in the medieval territories of Leinster and Meath and their place in the wider context of British and European castle studies. The ringwork castle is ...

    • Funeral customs in nineteenth century Ireland 

      Albano, Diego (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)
      The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the funeral customs of the lower classes. Chapter one analyzes the ‘merry wake’ through a wide arrange of memorials and contemporary sources, stressing the importance of its ...

    • Natural outpost to Britain's defences : a study of the Irish Treaty Ports 1914-1945 

      Evans, David George Benjamin (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)
      The thesis is a general profile of the ports in the period from the beginning ot the First World War to the end of the Second World War, under a number of headings, but it retains the ports as the central topic. The seven ...

    • Enforcing silence : United Ireland, the Irish nationalist press and British governance, 1881-1891 

      Dungan, Myles (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)
      This thesis studies the impact of a vibrant and assertive nationalist press on the Irish policies of the Liberal government of William E. Gladstone and the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury during the agrarian ...

    • Famine evictions 

      Coyle, Ronan (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      This thesis addresses the subject of famine evictions using a diverse range of sources and methodologies. Archival sources such as the files of the Chief Secretary of Ireland's office, registered papers and ejectment books ...

    • The career of William Conolly, 1689-1729 

      Walsh, Patrick A. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)
      This thesis focuses on the career of William Conolly (1662-1729). Conolly’s origins are slightly obscure. He was bom in Ballyshannon Co. Donegal but his family’s background is unknown although he and his father were ...

    • Running at the Devil with God's word. The pamphlets of the Early-Reformation preacher, Jacob Strauss 

      Smyth, Jennifer (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      This thesis examines the printed pamphlets of a preacher of the early German Reformation, Jacob Strauss. The analysis is based primarily on my translations from German of Strauss's pamphlets; manuscript evidence from the ...

    • The archaeology of medieval ecclesiastical settlement in the barony of Lower Dundalk, Co. Louth 

      Ryan, Vanessa (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)
      This thesis is a regional study of the archaeology of medieval ecclesiastical settlement in the barony of Lower Dundalk, Co. Louth, from c. 1000-1650. In the absence of excavation, the primary aim of this thesis was to ...

    • The operation of the Great Southern Railway during the Emergency 

      Rigney, Peter (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)
      This thesis examines the operation of the Great Southern Railway during the Emergency period. The GSR operated all railway lines which lay wholly within Eire, together with large bus and lorry fleets. It was on the verge ...

    • Dark spots' in Irish society : unmarried motherhood, crime and prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950 

      Rattigan, Clíona (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)
      This thesis examines unplanned pregnancy in Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the unmarried women who feature in the judicial records of infanticide and abortion trials. Chapter ...

    • Landlord responses to the Irish land war, 1879-1882 

      Pole, Adam D. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)
      This dissertation examines rural class conflict in Victorian Ireland at a critical point when the simmering antagonism of tenant farmers over access to and possession of the land became fused with a nationalist movement ...