School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Dublin's artisans and radical politics 1779 - 1803
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis examines the phenomenon of popular politicization in Dublin c. 1779-1803, particularly the connection between radical politics and early trade unions. It explores the emergence of coherent working class ... -
Portraits of the city : representations of Dublin in visual art - a thematic case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2015)This thesis examines the representation of Dublin in visual art, as produced by a range of artists working in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thematic in its approach, the artists and artworks discussed ... -
Internment of the Anti-Treaty I.R.A. in the Irish Free State 1922-4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of Anti-Treaty I.R.A. internment during the Irish Civil War, a period of Irish history, which marked a bitter end to the revolutionary years. On the eve of the Truce in July 1921, there were some ... -
The significance of glass stud gems in insular metalwork, 7th to 9th century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2006)Decorative glass studs appear extensively on high status insular metalwork between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Their importance is signified by the use of precious materials, attention to minute detail and prominent ... -
Salus Populi : the eschatological imagination of Saint Peter Damian (c.1007 - 1072)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Peter Damian (c. 1007 - 1072) was an influential voice in the monastic, papal and ecclesiastical movements for spiritual and institutional reform in the eleventh century. He served as a rhetorician in the schools of Northern ... -
Divided neutrality 1914 - 1918 : the impact of the First World War on Swiss Francophone and Swiss Germanophone opinion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis has shown that while neutral Switzerland had its own experience of the First World War, simply opting out of the maelstrom that swept Europe as a whole was not a possibility. Despite neutrality, the war was ... -
Insular glass and amber studs, seventh to twelfth century AD: dating, chronology and workshop practice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)Studs of glass and amber are found alongside panels of gold filigree and embossed silver foils, are an integral part of high status Insular metalwork created between the seventh and twelfth centuries. No over-arching survey ... -
The Irish Drought Impacts Database (IDID): A 287-Year Database of Drought Impacts derived from Newspaper Archives
(2024)Understanding of past droughts has been mostly shaped by meteorological data, with relatively less known about the human aspects of droughts, their socio-economic impacts, as well as choices people make in response to ... -
Challenges in Detecting Volcanic Forcing in Climate and Societal Proxies: Insights from the 1170/1171 CE Eruption
(2025)While our current understanding of the impacts of volcanic eruptions on the atmosphere and climate has significantly advanced, uncertainties persist regarding the climate and societal response to major volcanic events ... -
Jet Stream Driven European Climate Extremes and Agricultural Productivity over the Past 700 Years
(2024)The jet stream is an important dynamic driver of climate variability in the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes1–3 . Modern variability in the position of summer jet stream latitude in the North Atlantic–European sector ... -
A Historical Plankton Index: Zooplankton abundance in the North Sea since 800 CE
(2024)The North Sea region boasted one of the world’s most important fisheries for many centuries. Climate directly and indirectly influences the development and survival of many important pelagic fish in the North Sea ecosystem. ... -
CHINACHILD Voices of enslaved Chinese girls 1912-1949
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Recreating a unique early modern beer
(2022)Beer was an important source of nutrition in the past. To study its importance in diet, the nutritional input of beer in early modern Ireland (c1550 – c1650) was examined. Archival records in Dublin Castle facilitated ... -
Vetula, Vecchia, Prophetess, Saint: the Old Woman in the Florentine Trecento
(Brepols, 2025)This chapter examines the representation of the old woman in Florentine art. It will look at figures coded as elderly such as St Elizabeth, St Anne, and Anna the Prophetess and place them within their devotional context. ... -
Saintly systems of healing: images, devotion and cures
(Manchester University Press, 2025)Jacques Le Goff notes that in the Middle Ages the body did not exist in itself but was always co-penetrated with the soul. The experiences of illness and therapeutic regimes, involving prayer, imagery, magico-religious ... -
Environment as a Weapon: Geographies, Histories, Literature
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Redipuglia and the dead
(2017)Over a hundred thousand bodies are buried in the ossuary of Redipuglia. Created in north- eastern Italy under the fascist state in 1935–8, it is the largest burial site of the Great War worldwide.It encloses the remains ... -
Modern cemeteries in Europe and North America
(2022)Between the 1740s and the 1850s, changes in burial customs within Europe and North America had far-reaching consequences for funerary architecture. Those changes first emerged in France, Sweden, Italy, Scotland, and in the ... -
Feeling Political in Military Cemeteries: Commemoration Politics in Fascist Italy
(Palgrave, 2022)Rome, 28 October 2020: Italian neo-fascist groups meet, as they have done on this date for the last four years, at a chapel built by Benito Mussolini within Rome’s main cemetery in order to commemorate those who gave ... -
Questioning the idea of difficult heritage as applied to the architecture of Fascist Italy
(2023)Mussolini’s regime sought to change the mindset of Italians by shaping their environment through architecture and urban planning. As such, Fascism had a visible impact on Italian cities in the form of large urban projects, ...
