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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
A benevolent society? Local relief committee membership in Ireland 1817-57
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)In all the various discussions and debates stimulated by poverty and relief in nineteenth-century Ireland, studies rarely go beyond generalisations with respect to relief committee membership. The main aim of this thesis ... -
A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1998)This thesis examines the membership of the 1640 Irish House of Commons up to November 1641. It identifies 288 men who were members of the House at that time, matches them to their constituencies, where appropriate, and ... -
A comparative study of imperial constitutional theory in Ireland and America in the age of the American Revolution
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A Great and Sudden Change : Lord Castlereagh, economic reform, and the transformation of post-Napoleonic politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Utilizing a political history approach, this thesis presents an account of two distinct, but interrelated narratives of change. Firstly, it presents Castlereagh’s political thought as a process, and seeks to present ... -
A history of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines) were founded in Tullow, County Carlow, by Dr Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1807. These nuns were part of the unusually fast expansion of simple-vowed congregations ... -
A kingdom united: British and Irish popular responses to the outbreak of war, July to December 1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)In the current literature on Britain and Ireland during the First World War there is a significant gap concerning public responses to the outbreak throughout the autumn of 1914. My project rectifies this situation by being ... -
A revolution within : loyalty, treason and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis explores some important questions regarding the origins, definitions and applications of loyalty in Ireland between 1913 and 1921. More specifically, it is an inter-disciplinary examination of the often divergent ... -
A seventeenth century survivor : the political career of Randal Mac Donnell, first marquis and second earl of Antrim (1609-83)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1990) -
A study of landlord and tenant relations in Ireland between the Famine and the Land War 1850-78
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1974) -
A.D. 672 - the apex of apocalyptic thought in the early medieval Latin West?
(de Gruyter, 2020)In Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the Second Coming of Christ was connected to the beginning of the seventh millennium. This raised apocalyptic expectations for the end of sixth millennium. When exactly this was ... -
Abraham Ortelius and collaborative humanism : virtuous pursuits in war and peace
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Abstract Machine Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: Mapping Kavanagh
(Edinburgh University Press, 2011)Drawing upon previous theoretical and practical work in historical and qualitative applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this paper, in Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's terminology, conceptualizes GIS ... -
Across the Isles: The Transnational Lordship of the Mortimer Earls of March and Ulster 1368-1398
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ... -
Advanced Nationalist Political Activity in Ireland 1910-1917
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the political, as opposed to military, activities of advanced nationalists in Ireland, including the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Sinn Fein, the labour movement, the women's ... -
Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This special issue deals with the phenomenon of the emergence of radical violence in what might be called `shatter zones? of empires after the end of the First World War. It argues that the emergence of violence was due ... -
Alithinologia : John Lynch and seventeenth-century Irish political thought
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis is a study of John Lynch's Alithinologia (St Malo, 1664) and Supplementum alithinologiae (St Malo, 1667). Lynch, Catholic archdeacon of Tuam, was the foremost Irish Catholic intellectual of the second half of ...