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The Dark Side of Independence: Paramilitary Violence in Ireland and Poland after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This article analyses excesses carried out against civilians in Ireland and Poland after the First World War. It shows how the absence of a centralised state authority with a monopoly on violence allowed for new, less ... -
Dark spots' in Irish society : unmarried motherhood, crime and prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950
(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 ... -
Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939 : Geschichte, Form, Funktion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996) -
De Re Sagittaria
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992) -
Deaf People in Ireland: Education, Poverty, and the Law, 1851-1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis will carry out a historical investigation into aspects of the lives and experiences of deaf people in Ireland during the period 1851 to 1922. It comprehensively explores, using a 'history from below' perspective, ... -
Death, sacrifice and mourning in German women's art of the First World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1919. In the early stages of the conflict, women's art was employed to rally support for the war effort, to appeal to women's ... -
Debating Contraception, Abortion And Divorce In An Era Of Controversy And Change: New Agendas And RTÉ Radio And Television Programmes 1968-2018
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)The study begins with the publication in 1968 of the papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, forbidding all forms of artificial contraception, and ends in 2018 with the repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, ... -
The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The title of my thesis is 'The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40'. As my subject I have used the second Duke of Westminster to examine how the aristocracy reacted to the social, economic and ... -
Deep History: Deeper Waters
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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 ... -
Defending Ireland from the Irish: The Irish Executive’s reaction to Transatlantic Fenianism - 1864-68
This thesis examines the Irish Executive’s reaction to the threat posed by transatlantic Fenianism from the closing phase of the US Civil War to the end of Fenian activity in the year following the Rising of February/March ... -
Defiant Mourning: Public Funerals as Funeral Demonstrations in the Chartist Movement
(2018)The popular radical movement that developed in Great Britain after the Napoleonic wars under the leadership of Henry Hunt made the mass-platform its main – and most striking – means of action in the fight for parliamentary ... -
Defying the IRA : intimidation, coercion and communities in Ireland, 1917-1922
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the IRA and its communities in Ireland between 1917 and the beginning of the Irish Civil War in June 1922. To do so, it will focus on civilian defiance ... -
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
(2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ... -
'The development of Irish identity: political aspiration and literary conceptions, 600-919
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis examines the development of an Irish identity in the early medieval period. It covers roughly three centuries, from 600 to 919, and it focuses for the most part on the formation of an Irish political identity, ... -
Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism
(2019)William Mason (1719–1791), an Anglican evangelical layman of Bermondsey, London, published extensively on theological issues to educate the Anglican laity in the Church of England’s Reformed tradition. Despite the ... -
Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque: Translation and commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Between 814 and 818, the Irish scholar Dicuil wrote five untitled books for the Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious (778-840). This thesis provides the first textual analysis of this work in its entirety and a full ... -
Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This study focuses on the cultural legacy of the First World War in France in the period 1914-1933. Specifically, it examines the processes of cultural mobilization and cultural demobilization, key concepts that have ...