14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ...

This article charts Sir Edward Lovett Pearce’s complex connections from country estates in Norfolk, courtly circles in Surrey and fashionable enclaves in Mayfair to the newly-built streets of Dublin’s North City. ...

From 1912 to 1949, especially under the administration of the Nanjing Government from 1927 to 1937, Shanghai witnessed drastic changes in its political structure, medical culture and social lifestyles through the construction ...

This thesis is a comparative analysis of sacral kingship in early medieval Ireland and England from the sixth to mid-ninth centuries that explores the nature of kingship during a period of religious conversion in two ...

This doctoral thesis examines the words and speeches recorded in the 1641 depositions. The 1641 depositions documented words of treason but also words of insult or name-calling, which this thesis will focus on primarily. ...

Throughout Plutarch s Parallel Lives, many of his subjects go into exile willingly or by force. The aim of this thesis is to determine whether Plutarch found exile to be an exceptional theme, whether the work On Exile can ...

The reign of Henry VIII was a watershed in Irish history. Historians, however, have underestimated the impact of the Henrician Reformation. Exploring the making of Tudor political theology against the North Atlantic and ...

This research note introduces the methodology of the FoodCult Project, with the aim of stimulating discussion regarding the interdisciplinary potential for historical food studies. The project represents the first major ...

This study examines the constructional patterns of early Irish classical buildings from the end of the seventeenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century. It also defines the operational patterns of artisans ...