History: Recent submissions
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Finnegans wake: Mapping a national consciousness
(2005)In James Joyce's Finnegans wake, the political and sexual mores placed upon Irish culture by the presence of the British Empire and the Catholic Church during the late colonial and early post colonial period of modern ... -
Beyond the Cartesian Imagination: Placing Beckett
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Heart of Darkness Redux
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Visual Geo-Literary and Historical Analysis, Tweetflickrtubing, and James Joyce's Ulysses (1922)
(2015)Situated at the intersection of the arts and sciences, Humanities GIS (HumGIS) are contributing to new knowledge systems emerging in the digital, spatial, and geo-humanities. This article discusses the conceptualization ... -
A Relay of Joy: An Artist and a Geographer Reflect Upon Cybernetic Assemblies and an Embodied Media Geography of Spätkapitalismus
(2010)Perhaps it was the emergence of global media geographies of Spätkapitalismus (Late Capitalism) which provoked Deleuze and Guattari in their collaborative text Anti- Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1983) to claim ... -
Tree Ring Chronology of Meteorological Extremes for Ireland, AD425-1650
(2011)For over thirty years the study of Ireland‘s climate history has benefited from the availability of world class dendrochronological (tree ring) records, developed by Michael Baillie, David Brown and colleagues in Queen‘s ... -
Workshop Examines Climate Change and Human Response in the History of Western Eurasia from AD 1 to 1600
(2013)On November 28, the Harvard Initiative for the Science of the Human Past and the Harvard University Center for the Environment (HUCE) co-sponsored a day-long workshop on “Climate Change and Human Response in the History ... -
Understanding Volcanic Impacts through Time: 4th VICS Workshop, Cambridge, UK, 13-16 April 2019
(2019)The Volcanic Impacts on Climate and Society (VICS; pastglobalchanges.org/vics) working group initiated Phase 2 this year. The aim of Phase 2 is to extend the scope of VICS to major eruptions throughout the Holocene and ... -
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 ... -
Drought and Plague in Adso of Montier-en-Der's Miracles of St Mansuy
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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 ... -
'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction
(2019)This conversation with the Irish author Emma Donoghue is focused on her relationship with history and fiction. Topics discussed include the relationship between scholarly research and the writing of historical fiction, ... -
John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited
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The myth of the 'five bloods': from fiction to legal custom in the English royal courts in fourteenth-century Ireland
(2018)This paper examines two issues: misconceptions concerning English law in high medieval Ireland; and the invention and mutation of an exceptio (objection) in court which was based on a fabrication. The plea, or defensive ... -
In Search of a Cultural Republic: Intellectual and Literary Periodical Publishing in Dublin 1930-55
The subject of this thesis is intellectual and literary periodical publishing in Dublin from 1930 to 1955. Close analysis has focused on The Capuchin Annual, The Dublin Magazine, Motley, Ireland To-Day, Commentary, The ...
