School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Advanced Nationalist Political Activity in Ireland 1910-1917
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the political, as opposed to military, activities of advanced nationalists in Ireland, including the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Sinn Fein, the labour movement, the women's ... -
Deaf People in Ireland: Education, Poverty, and the Law, 1851-1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis will carry out a historical investigation into aspects of the lives and experiences of deaf people in Ireland during the period 1851 to 1922. It comprehensively explores, using a 'history from below' perspective, ... -
Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque: Translation and commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Between 814 and 818, the Irish scholar Dicuil wrote five untitled books for the Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious (778-840). This thesis provides the first textual analysis of this work in its entirety and a full ... -
The Computus Einsidlensis: First Edition and Translation with an Introductory Commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The present thesis consists of three parts: a commentary, edition, and translation of the Computus Einsidlensis (CE), an early medieval textbook on the calculation of the date of Easter (computus) from Ireland. The commentary ... -
Writing Ireland in the Latin chronicles and histories of early Plantagenet England
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers a fresh examination of Latin writers' attitudes towards and depictions of Ireland, its affairs and its people in early Plantagenet England. Moving beyond the 'Geraldine paradigm' that has hitherto now ... -
Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807
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Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture
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Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
Illuminating Irish American Identity: Harry Clarke Stained Glass Studios' Ecclesiastical Commissions in the USA c.1950-1970
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2023)Clarke Studios was established in 1930 and operated as a business making stained glass for more than forty years after the death of its founder, the artist Harry Clarke (1889-1931). In that period windows were made for ... -
Pursuing the desire for cattle or attacking the followers of heresy: A numerical analysis of different factors influencing strategies adopted in large group interactions involving nomads or holy war
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis is a numerical analysis of factors which have influenced the strategies adopted in a sample of 120 large group interactions involving nomads or holy war in the period 1250 BCE to 1850 CE in parts of Afro-Eurasia. ... -
Categorizing Dicuil's 'De cursu solis lunaeque'
(Brepols, 2022)Dicuil’s so-called Liber de astronomia has confused many modern scholars. Based on an analysis of its structure, this paper argues that the very nature of the work has often been misunderstood. It was never meant to be a ... -
Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds
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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
(2022)This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn ... -
The Origins, Evolution, and Political Consequences of Britain's New Catholic Policy, From the Conquest of Quebec to the Eve of the American Revolution, 1759-1774
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)Drawing on archival and printed primary collections from Canada, the United States, Ireland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, and the work of historians throughout many of these communities, the thesis traces the ... -
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context
(2021)At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article discusses ... -
Kitchen politics: a cultural history of Irish domestic servants in England and the United States, c. 1870-1945
This thesis examines the representation of Irish domestic servants in Anglo-American culture over the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The perceived difficulties of managing domestic help were a prominent feature ... -
Contesting Chronos: An Exploration of Competing Ontologies of Time in Early Greek Thought
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis explores the diverse ontologies of time that are evidenced in the early Greek cosmologies of Hesiod, Pherecydes of Syros, and Empedocles. Through three case studies, I argue that in order to understand the ... -
'Where is she?': Women and Irish Television 1957-73
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis examines the relationship between women and television in Ireland during the long 1960s. It looks at the role of programming in its analysis alongside questions surrounding the status of women workers at the ...
