History (Theses and Dissertations): Recent submissions
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The establishment of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1936 - 1948
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis investigates the establishment of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and its three schools in the period 1936 to 1948. The initial two Schools of Theoretical Physics and Celtic Studies were ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Silhouettes in a City: Women, Work and Welfare in Dublin, c. 1890- 1930s
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis investigates the position of women workers in Dublin in the period c. 1890-1930s. It focuses on women as employees in paid employment, rather than as business owners, self-employed innovators, house workers, ... -
The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ... -
Toil, Soil, and Spoils: The Unemployment Relief Scheme for Archaeological Purposes, from 1934 to 1940
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)In 1934 a programme of relief schemes was devised by the Irish government to address chronic unemployment throughout the country. The inclusion of archaeological excavations was a significant step forward for the under-funded ... -
The Irish Hydra : English policy and plantations in Gaelic Ulster in 1567 - 79
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)The aim of this thesis is provide an analysis of Ulster politics during the period between the death of Shane O'Neill in June 1567 and the Crown's estrangement from Turlough Luineach O'Neill in 1579. The importance of this ... -
The evolving character of the French Reformed Movement, c.1555 - c.1572
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From hovels to homes : the provision of public housing in Irish provinicial towns, 1890 - 1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)In the mid-1940s a quarter of all private dwellings in Irish provincial towns had been built by their local councils in the preceding fifty years. In comparative terms this represented a high level of state involvement in ... -
Ulstermen and Identity in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This research will assess the cultural identity of Ulstermen working in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949. Sir Robert Hart joined the Customs Service in 1859, and by 1863 was the head of the organisation. The ... -
The mere Irish and the colonisation of Ulster : c.1570-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This work is an examination of the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster. While some Irish-language sources are drawn-upon, the fact that these have already been used to explore Gaelic mentalités ... -
County office and county society in Dublin and Meath, c.1399 - c.1513
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis consists of a study of office-holding across two of the 'four obedient shires' of the Dublin hinterland. To attempt to compensate for the paucity of information on any individual office-holder or office-holding ... -
'To remain unaltered in the courage you have inherited from your ancestors' : Magdeburg under siege, 1547-1631
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)The siege of Magdeburg 1550-1551 became an important reference point for the city in the early years of the Thirty Years War, as demonstrated in several printed works of the 1620s. The crisis which ended in Magdeburg's ... -
Mapping the Viking Age World: A GIS Analysis of the Contemporary Evidence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis aimed to produce a critical reanalysis of Norse activity during the early Viking Age, c. 793-920, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By mapping and analyzing selected contemporary written and material ... -
Reimaging Heroes and Villains: Contested and Changing Representations of the Republican Historical Figures in Mainland China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the diverse and contested representations of Republican historical figures in mainland China. This research project was designed to discuss public history in mainland China, particularly how histories ... -
`A Fine Subject to Expatiate Upon.' British Foreign Policy and the Rhetoric of National Honour, 1830-1880.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis analyses the rhetoric of national honour in British foreign policy, during the period 1830 to 1880. National honour?s status as an understated, understudied subject will be addressed, yet this thesis will not ... -
Old English alienation from the Tudor state: a case study on the royal liberty of Wexford 1534-1585
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The early modern period (1500-1700) is a transformative era in the history of Ireland, establishing many enduring processes, some of which still impact today. An important component is the ideological formation of the Irish ... -
The Echo of a Thompson Gun: Folk Music and Left Politics in Ireland and the United States of America, 1951 - 1973
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis explores the link between Irish traditional/folk music and left-wing political organisation in Ireland and the United States of America in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies. The study begins in 1951 ... -
Food and drink : Ireland's overseas trade in the Later Middle Ages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ... -
The finances and expenses of the Church of Ireland episcopate c.1660-1740: a study of their resources and spending
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The six chapters of my thesis are intended as a contribution to the task of recovering the backgrounds of the bishops of the Church of Ireland in its most crucial phase of its history. While a handful of historians have ...
