History: Recent submissions
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Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
Justice for all? Access by ethnic groups to the English royal courts in Ireland, 1252-1318
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The notion that all Gaelic people were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in c.1169, has become so established in the national consciousness of Ireland ... -
Ireland, 1686-1825
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Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2010)The aim of this project was to collate historical, proxy and observational (recent) records, and analyse the information within this variety of sources for incidences of extreme weather events and natural disasters, which ... -
Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin
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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 ... -
It's all a matter of balanced tensions : Irish medical missionaries in Nigeria, 1937-1967
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Prior to 1936 Catholic nuns were forbidden by canon law from practising medicine or midwifery, as these were deemed a threat to their vows of chastity and obedience. Only after a lengthy campaign of propaganda and action ... -
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 ... -
Legal position and living conditions of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland, c.680 - c.1170
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis discusses the non-noble classes of early medieval Ireland under the categories of 'commoner' - a hereditary landowning freeman of non-noble status, most typically termed in Irish bóaire; 'peasant' - a semi-free ... -
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 ... -
The Shirley estate 1814-1906 : the development and demise of a landed estate in County Monaghan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The following is a study of the semi-absentee Shirley estate situated in south Ulster in the barony of Farney, County Monaghan 'on the edge of a great belt of drumlins that sweep from County Down to North Connaught’. The ...
