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Natural outpost to Britain's defences : a study of the Irish Treaty Ports 1914-1945
(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 ... -
'Negotiating Authority in a Colonial Capital: Dublin and the Windsor Crisis, c.1369-78'
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Neither one thing nor the other : The Ulster Protestant community in Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh, 1916 - 1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Histories of Irish partition and discussions of the Irish border portray the six-county settlement as the most natural division of the island. This formulation provides a false impression of a cohesive Ulster Protestant ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
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. ... -
Nobility and crown. The de Lacy family in Ireland, England and Normandy 1172-1241
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This study of the interplay between magnate and crown in the political careers of Hugh and Walter de Lacy involves a fresh look at the high politics of the Plantagenet Empire from 1172 to 1241. It is hoped, however, that ... -
The North Atlantic Fish Revolution, c. AD 1500
(2019)We propose the concept of the “Fish Revolution” to demarcate the dramatic increase in North Atlantic fisheries after AD 1500, which led to a 15-fold increase of cod (Gadus morhua) catch volumes and likely a tripling of ... -
Of Ruin and Archaism: Kate O’Brien and the Polemics of Place in 1930s Ireland
(2007)Kate O’Brien’s 1938 novel Pray for the Wanderer illustrates the polemics of place operating in bourgeois Ireland in 1937, the year of the Irish Constitutional referendum. O’Brien’s subtle and audacious literary technique ... -
Official Propaganda in the Irish Free State
(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 ... -
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 ... -
One phenomenon, Three perspectives. English colonial strategies in Ireland revisited, 1603-1680
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial system during the early modern period. With regard to developments in the seventeenth century, however, the long-established ... -
The Origins, Evolution, and Political Consequences of Britain's New Catholic Policy, From the Conquest of Quebec to the Eve of the American Revolution, 1759-1774
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)Drawing on archival and printed primary collections from Canada, the United States, Ireland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, and the work of historians throughout many of these communities, the thesis traces the ... -
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. ... -
Papacy and church : the assertion and reception of Papal authority and justice in the Papal letters, 1143-53
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The subject of this thesis is papal authority and administrative practice in the period 1143-53, and how they are reflected through the letters of the papacy. Accordingly, the focus here is on the everyday business of the ... -
Parliament and Community: Theory and Practice in the Insular World, c.1399-c.1460
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ...