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 ...

This thesis examines the representation of Irish domestic servants in Anglo-American culture over the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The perceived difficulties of managing domestic help were a prominent feature ...

James Malton’s twenty-five engravings of Dublin were first published in London between 1792 and 1797, appearing at intervals in batches. The young Malton had been trained as an architectural draughtsman, coming to Dublin ...

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 ...

Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ...

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 ...

This thesis demonstrates how history mattered in the politics and society of seventeenth-century Ireland, how authors used the distant past in their arguments about the post-Restoration political and religious settlement ...

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 ...