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Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis explores the active role that animals played in influencing the design of hunting spectacles (venationes) that were staged in Rome and throughout the Empire from the end of the 1st century BCE to the early 6th ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute Curriculum
(Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2019)The Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute (GHI) was an 18-month project (2018-19) funded by the Consortium of Humanities and Centres institutes and the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The GHI brought together a consortium ... -
`Punishment and Service to the Injured State' - Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation, 1840-1852
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The objective of this thesis is to present a comprehensive exploration of the Irish convict transportation system in the period 1840 to 1852. In a two strand approach this subject is examined from the perspective of the ... -
A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis offers a new reading of Apollonius’ Argonautica which pays special attention to the role of humour and the influence of comic literature. To demonstrate the importance of these two elements, I make three main ... -
'It will not stop me or anyone like me': Women and Imprisonment in Ireland, c.1922-1947.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis explores the experience of the female prisoner in the Irish justice system from c.1922-1947. It focuses on that group of women who made up the bulk of those imprisoned by the state -those convicted of relatively ... -
MIDDLE EASTERN CRAFTS: YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW, VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, OCTOBER 11-12, 2018
(2020)Craft is having a moment – the international market for contemporary craft is more buoyant than ever, with record trade figures and increasingly high-profile exhibitions and publications.1 But contemporary craft from the ... -
Mudéjar and the Alhambresque: Spanish Pavilions at the Universal Expositions and the Invention of a National Style
(2017)Spain's complex relationship with its Islamic architectural heritage was brought into particular focus through the prism of its national pavilions that were built for the Universal Expositions of the late nineteenth and ... -
Versions and visions of the Alhambra in the nineteenth-century Ottoman world
(2015)The Alhambra as a source of inspiration for Western architects in the nineteenth century is well known and has been thoroughly documented. But “alhambresque” style was not just an Orientalist exoticism in the West. It ... -
Revolutionary Currents: Newspapers, Publicity, and the Imperial Public Sphere, c.1760-1784
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The concept of the public sphere has generated significant debate across the varied fields of historical studies. This debate has centred on Habermas's original explanation, and how it failed to comprehend and take into ... -
A Visigothic Computus of AD 722 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11, 26r?27r)
(Brepols, 2023)Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11 contains a short text (26r–27r) overlooked by scholars of early medieval computus. This short note demonstrates its Visigothic origin and AD 722 as the year of composition. The text ... -
The impact of the Great War on women in Ireland, 1914 - 1919
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)The impact of the Great War on women is a significant area of scholarship within First World War studies. The legacy of the war for women's lives and role in society has been the subject of much debate. This thesis ... -
The establishment of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies, 1936 - 1948
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis investigates the establishment of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS) and its three schools in the period 1936 to 1948. The initial two Schools of Theoretical Physics and Celtic Studies were ... -
Perceptions and uses of Gothic in Irish domestic and ecclesiastical architecture, 1800 - 1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2016)Perceptions of Gothic in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and its use in domestic and ecclesiastical architecture in Ireland, 1800-1841' is a study of meaning in Gothic revival architecture. The thesis ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Silhouettes in a City: Women, Work and Welfare in Dublin, c. 1890- 1930s
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis investigates the position of women workers in Dublin in the period c. 1890-1930s. It focuses on women as employees in paid employment, rather than as business owners, self-employed innovators, house workers, ... -
The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ... -
Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo
(2023)Prior to the demolition around 1917 of the late fifteenth-century palace built in Torrijos, near Toledo, for Gutierre de Cárdenas, a prominent soldier and courtier, and his wife, Teresa Enríquez, four intricate painted ...