School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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The Topographical Prints of Louis Meunier: A Study of a Representation of Spain in the Seventeenth Century and its Extended Afterlife
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis examines the representation of Spanish and Portuguese cities in an album of topographical views made by Louis Meunier, a printmaker operating in Paris in the second half of the seventeenth century. The set of ... -
The Many Voices of Community Archaeology: Inclusion and Multivocality in Cyprus
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The most widely used definition of community archaeology is archaeology that is with, for, and/or by the community. The breadth of that description and all that it encompasses means there are as many ways to engage and ... -
Ulstermen and Identity in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This research will assess the cultural identity of Ulstermen working in the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1859-1949. Sir Robert Hart joined the Customs Service in 1859, and by 1863 was the head of the organisation. The ... -
The Weight of Aristophanes - Plato and the `Other' Comic Poets: An Intertextual Analysis of Plato's Protagoras and Eupolis' Kolakes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis has two aims. The first is to reorient the scholarly norm when thinking about Plato in relation to the genre of Greek Comedy. Since modern scholarship started taking Plato’s relationship to comedy seriously as ... -
The mere Irish and the colonisation of Ulster : c.1570-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This work is an examination of the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster. While some Irish-language sources are drawn-upon, the fact that these have already been used to explore Gaelic mentalités ... -
County office and county society in Dublin and Meath, c.1399 - c.1513
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis consists of a study of office-holding across two of the 'four obedient shires' of the Dublin hinterland. To attempt to compensate for the paucity of information on any individual office-holder or office-holding ... -
'To remain unaltered in the courage you have inherited from your ancestors' : Magdeburg under siege, 1547-1631
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)The siege of Magdeburg 1550-1551 became an important reference point for the city in the early years of the Thirty Years War, as demonstrated in several printed works of the 1620s. The crisis which ended in Magdeburg's ... -
Throwing Jason off the Scent: ἀμαλδύνω and the Lemnian Odour in Apollonius' Argonautica
(2023)This article argues that Apollonius was aware of the foul smell of the Lemnian women and its mythological variants. While Apollonius does not mention the δυσοσμία, he builds a complex allusion to it and its omission around ... -
Mapping the Viking Age World: A GIS Analysis of the Contemporary Evidence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis aimed to produce a critical reanalysis of Norse activity during the early Viking Age, c. 793-920, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS). By mapping and analyzing selected contemporary written and material ... -
Reimaging Heroes and Villains: Contested and Changing Representations of the Republican Historical Figures in Mainland China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the diverse and contested representations of Republican historical figures in mainland China. This research project was designed to discuss public history in mainland China, particularly how histories ... -
`A Fine Subject to Expatiate Upon.' British Foreign Policy and the Rhetoric of National Honour, 1830-1880.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis analyses the rhetoric of national honour in British foreign policy, during the period 1830 to 1880. National honour?s status as an understated, understudied subject will be addressed, yet this thesis will not ... -
Old English alienation from the Tudor state: a case study on the royal liberty of Wexford 1534-1585
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The early modern period (1500-1700) is a transformative era in the history of Ireland, establishing many enduring processes, some of which still impact today. An important component is the ideological formation of the Irish ... -
The Echo of a Thompson Gun: Folk Music and Left Politics in Ireland and the United States of America, 1951 - 1973
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis explores the link between Irish traditional/folk music and left-wing political organisation in Ireland and the United States of America in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies. The study begins in 1951 ... -
Food and drink : Ireland's overseas trade in the Later Middle Ages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ... -
Sic Mundus Creatus Est: Connection, Convergence, Coherence in Manilius' Astronomica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The thesis examines the notion of interconnectedness in the Astronomica and its significance for the poem. Particularly, it argues that the concept of an interlinked universe pervades Manilius' text and brings together ... -
The finances and expenses of the Church of Ireland episcopate c.1660-1740: a study of their resources and spending
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The six chapters of my thesis are intended as a contribution to the task of recovering the backgrounds of the bishops of the Church of Ireland in its most crucial phase of its history. While a handful of historians have ... -
Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery
(2023)In April 2023 the Board of Trinity College Dublin voted to de-name the Berkeley Library. Built in 1967 as the New Library and named after the Irish Philosopher, cleric, and Trinity alumnus, Bishop George Berkeley in 1978, ... -
Report on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity
(2023)This Working Paper details the memorialisation of Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) at Trinity College Dublin. It begins by first explaining who George Berkeley was, before moving on to discuss how he has been memorialised ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
Review of Toby Lincoln, An Urban History of China
(2023)Perhaps the greatest achievement of this book is the way that Toby Lincoln manages to convey a great enthusiasm for the vibrancy of Chinese cities. Author and reader alike are seduced by these exciting concentrations of ...
