School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Kathleen Clarke: A Life Proclaimed
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ... -
Commemorating the Past: The Breton Church and its Irish Element, c.800-1100
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Brittany's beginnings as a refuge for British migrants meant that, historically, Brittany seemed looked to the Insular world for its culture, language, and religion. Beginning in the ninth century, Brittany faced several ... -
Across the Isles: The Transnational Lordship of the Mortimer Earls of March and Ulster 1368-1398
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ... -
Nesiotai and Poleis Aspects of Agency in the Hellenistic Cyclades
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)This thesis examines the interactions of the poleis of the Cycladic Islands with hegemonic powers in the Hellenistic period on two levels: 1) the level of the Nesiotic League and 2) the level of the individual island poleis. ... -
The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet realm, 1204-1341
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the place of the Channel Islands in the wider realm of the Plantagenet kings of England from 1204 to 1341. It seeks to demonstrate that the Islands, despite their small size, were viewed by the kings ... -
The Butler Collection
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2000)The Butler Library, the topic of this thesis, is a collection of books which was given to Trinity College in the late eighteenth century. Theophilus Butler, Baron Newtown-Butler, a Dublin based politician who died in 1723, ... -
The Memory of the Norse in Ireland in Middle Irish Dynastic Narratives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Three dynastic propaganda narratives written to valorise the ancestor of a Gaelic patron feature a complicated career against, and at times alongside, Norse speakers operating in Ireland. These are the Cerball of Osraige ... -
Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939
(Routledge, 2023)Post-Famine Irish family constructs were complex and hinged to a great degree on social class and household means. The term ‘family’ is hard to define since it may be used to describe a range of relationships, from related ... -
Oppian's Piscine Dialectic
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)The central premise of this study is that Oppian?s Halieutica is a poem that poses questions and offers a variety of perspectives on issues such as the place of humans in the natural world, the cognitive abilities of ... -
Engaging With The Past: A history of public history on the island of Ireland in the state formation period, and an investigation into the effects of public historical engagement.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis investigates the role of public history, in the form of monumental memorials, in shaping identity narratives during the state-formation period in Ireland and Northern Ireland. By employing an all-island approach ... -
The Libyan Wars: Crisis, Climate, and Conflict in Carthaginian North Africa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2023)Africa is mother to some of humanity's oldest civilisations, among them the maritime state of Carthage (ca. 814-146 BC). At its height, Carthage was one of the largest cities on earth and was the first truly urban centre ... -
Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
(Palgrave, 2023)This “injection” comes from the point of view of a historian of slavery turned historian of sexuality. The history of sexuality sits very uneasily with the history of enslavement, however, because of the problem of agency ... -
Bias-cut justice: the legal pursuits of Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, Countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye c. 1180-1216
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye were contemporaries navigating the justice system in thirteenth-century England primarily under the reign of King John. The following study traces key ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ... -
The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168�158�BCE Volcanic Quartet and their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History
(2023)The Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE) is an important period of Ancient Egyptian history known for its material and scientific advances, but also intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(Routledge, 2023)Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ...
