History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa, 1955-75 : a changing mission
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis uses the example of sub-Saharan as a framework through which to analyse the evolution of Irish foreign policy between 1955 and 1975. It was a period of considerable change. When Ireland joined the United Nations ... -
Imaging the Byzantines : Latin perceptions, representations, and memory, c.1095-c.1230
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)On 16 April 1204, Constantinople fell to the armies of the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire was dismembered among its conquerors. More than six hundred years later, a controversy over the diversion of the Fourth ... -
No affair before us of greater concern : the war at sea in Ireland, 1641-1649
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis examines the war at sea in Ireland between 1641 and 1649. The significance of the maritime conflict that took place on the Irish coast has been overshadowed by the military campaigns on land during this decade. ... -
War and revolution : County Fermanagh and its borders, c.1640-c.1666
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis reconstructs the religious, military, political and socio-economic framework of County Fermanagh and its borders during the turbulent and revolutionary mid-seventeenth century, it examines a period of intense ... -
Censorship in the two Irelands 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)This thesis was based on archival research in the repositories named in the bibliography. This was supplemented by secondary sources where primary sources were inadequate or unavailable. Archival research has been supplemented ... -
Anglican army chaplains on the Western Front, 1914-1918
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)In the years that followed the end of the Great War a number of texts were published by veterans of the British Expeditionary Force that portrayed the Anglican chaplains who served on the Western Front in an extremely ... -
Catholicism in the province of Armagh, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)The thesis explores the evolution of Roman Catholicism in the province of Armagh from 1603 to 1641. The ecclesiastical province of Armagh embraces Ulster together with north Leinster, which in the catholic community of the ... -
The cult and iconography of Saint Anne in late medieval Europe with particular reference to Florence 1343 to 1528
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2000)This thesis examines the cult and iconography of Saint Anne in Europe generally and in Florence specifically. Saint Anne was declared a patroness of Florence when the Duke of Athens, a tyrant, was overthrown on her feast ... -
Ornament and the theories of the arts in the Renaissance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The thesis is an interdisciplinary study concerned with the understanding of ornament and the relationships between the arts in the Renaissance, as they are disclosed by a richer understanding of ornament in this period. ... -
Classical erudition in the letters of Peter of Blois
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1212) is best known for the collection of letters dedicated by him to King Henry II of England. Regarded as a model of the art of medieval letter-writing, his collection influenced subsequent ... -
Social mobility and the middling sort : Dublin merchants, 1760-1800
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis is an investigation of social mobility in the Dublin middling sort between 1760 and 1800 and has focused on merchants in particular. This study has attempted to examine the nature and frequency of social mobility ... -
The mendicant orders and the wars of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1230-1415
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis is a study of the involvement of the mendicant orders in the wars of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, with particular reference to the Franciscan order. Drawing on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, it ... -
Biography, romance and chivalry : Barbour's The Bruce and Chandos Herald's La vie du Prince Noir
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to establish the form and function of two late fourteenth- century biographies of royal subjects in Britain: John Barbour’s The Bruce, which was written circa 1375, and Chandos Herald’s La vie du ... -
Anglo-Irish and Gaelic women in Ireland c. 1277-1534 : a study of the conditions and rights of single women, wives, widows and nuns in late medieval Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis is a study of how women's legal, economic, social and political rights were profoundly affected by their marital state. The aim is firstly to provide a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland ... -
The enemy disarmed : Prisoners of war and the violence of wartime: Britain, France and Germany, 1914-1920
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)The First World War is not particularly renowned for the mistreatment of prisoners. Violence against prisoners of war has received little scholarly attention and the history of the prisoner experience has been neglected ... -
The role and influence of the Irish Missions of the Society of Jesus on the implementation of a counter-reformation among the old English in Ireland, 1542-1633
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis seeics to present a study of the activity of the Society of Jesus and its engagement with Ireland. The study will look at the period from 1542 when Jesuits first came to Ireland, until 1633, when Wentworth ... -
Political activity of the Irish in Britain, 1919-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)The aim of this thesis is to survey the political activity of the Irish in Britain in the years 1919-1925. With the victory of Sinn Fein at the General Election in December 1918 and the subsequent establishment of Dail ... -
The concept and practice of pilgrimage in early medieval Ireland : from the fifth to the ninth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)This dissertation focuses primarily upon the practice of pilgrimage ex patria (‘[away] from one’s country’), the act of abandoning one’s homeland, usually permanently, for the sake of God, a practice that was uniquely ... -
Drogheda as a case study of Anglo-Norman town foundation in Ireland, 1194-1412
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This case study addresses the foundation and evolution of Drogheda’s civic government as revealed by forty-five charters and other ancillary grants bestowed on the town from 1194 to 1412. This source material will throw ... -
The origins and development of the Tower House in Ireland in the light of recent research
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)Tower houses are a familiar feature of the Irish countryside, and this investigation considers not only the circumstances in which they came to be built, but also the development of our appreciation of their place in the ...
