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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 ... -
Partition, women, and social policy, 1921-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis analyses how the partition of Ireland affected state social intervention into women?s lives in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It begins its study with the opening of Stormont, the northern parliament, ... -
Patterns of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
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Pearse, Parnell & the priests: history and politics in the Irish schoolboy novel
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Permanent revolutionaries : the I.R.B. and the Land War in Skull, Co.Cork, 1879-82
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis examines the Irish Republican Brotherhood at a grassroots level and its involvement in the Irish National Land League and the Land War, 1879-82 in Co. Cork with an emphasis on the grassroots organisers in West ... -
Personal financial management in early eighteenth-century Ireland: practices, participants and outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines the modalities, practices, and options available to, the attitudes towards, and the potential results achievable by personal financial managers in Ireland in the early decades of the eighteenth century.The ... -
Philip I of France (1060-1108) and the development of royal authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis was an attempt to underline the positive aspects of the contribution of Philip I of France (1060-1108) to the development of the Capetian monarchy of France. His reign has been little studied in any language. ... -
The place of Ireland in the development of American global thought in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis is a study of a particular dimension of American political and historical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period American writers and intellectuals acknowledged, ... -
Plankton lifeforms as a biodiversity indicator for regional-scale assessment of pelagic habitats for policy
(2019)Plankton are sensitive indicators of change and, at the base of marine food webs, they underpin important ecosystem services such as carbon sequestration and fisheries production. In the UK and the Northeast Atlantic region, ...