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Running at the Devil with God's word. The pamphlets of the Early-Reformation preacher, Jacob Strauss
(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 ... -
S. Ciarán's church and his lands: a study of the history and development of Clonmacnoise
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1995)Clonmacnois was founded in the middle of the sixth century, as a place of contemplation by S. Ciarán. In the course of the following two centuries it became one of the largest churches in Ireland. A considerable number of ... -
Science, time & community: supplementary text & illustrations
(2006-11-11)Supplementary material to accompany 'Science, Time & Community: A Digital Exhibition', a project researched by the M. Phil. candidates in Reformation and Enlightenment Studies 2005/6 which concentrated its inquiry on a ... -
'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ... -
SDG 14 Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water
(Oxford University Press, 2022)The problem with the ocean is that we do not see what is below the surface. When we clear land for urban development, when we change agricultural practices, when we cut the trees or kill off the wolves, we see the changes. ... -
Seas may divide : Irish migration to New Zealand as portrayed in personal correspondence, 1840-1937
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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 ... -
Settlement and society in medieval County Wexford 1100-1400
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Settlement Patterns and Socio-Economic Change in the Diocese of Tuam c.AD 400–1000
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis explores the inter-relationship between settlement patterns and socio-economic change during the early medieval period in the Diocese of Tuam. A thematic approach is taken, exploring the physical settlement ... -
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context
(2021)At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article discusses ... -
Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition
(2021)Sets of astronomical tables available in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages can be classified based on whether they imitated Ptolemy in using a tropical zodiac for displaying planetary mean motions or followed an Indian ... -
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, ... -
Sin, Sheep and Scotsmen: John George Adair and the Derryveagh evictions 1861
(Ulster Historical Foundation, 1983)The sixteen townlands of the district of Derryveagh lie to the north and west of the small village of Church Hill on the road west from Letterkenny. On the morning of Monday, 8 April 1861, the sub-sheriff of the County ... -
Sir Laurence Parsons, second Earl of Rosse, 1758-1841
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1963) -
De sk?nsk-hallandske bondeopr?r 1180-82
(2011-08-16)[(In Danish) Study of the Danish peasant riots in Scania and Halland 1180/1182] Igennem dansk middelalder var der en r?kke opstande mod skatteudskrivningen og stormandsplageri ? i 1086 (n?rrejyske og fynske b?nder mod ... -
Sligo 1921-1923 : the aftermath of the revolution
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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 ... -
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China
(2018)According to Chinese government estimates, 10,000 children are trafficked in China every year. Johanna Ransmeier’s meticulous and highly engaging study of the trade in people in the late Qing and Republican periods provides ...