School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Irish women in business, 1850-1922: navigating the credit economy
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)Irish Women in Business, 1850-1922: navigating the credit economy Antonia Florence Madeleine Jamesie Hart 90408373 Abstract Irish women owned and managed businesses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ... -
European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742 - 814 CE)
(2013)Charlemagne (c.742 – 814 CE) had such a successful political and military career that for the entire subsequent medieval period his reign was portrayed as a model one for all European rulers to aspire to. But for all his ... -
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
(2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ... -
How should historians approach elites?
(Springer, 2020)This paper probes the various methodologies that an historian of elite groups and elite culture can approach their work. Written from the perspective of an historian of nineteenth century elite education the paper segments ... -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Exploring circulation: 'þe proporcions' in a fifteenth-century English miscellany and the vernacularisation of musica speculativa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)If no copies had survived of ‘þe proporcions’, the assumption might have been that the audience for Boethian music theory in fifteenth-century England was scholarly, clerical, and Latinate. The discovery of a third copy ... -
Guerrilla warfare and the dynamics of violence in the Irish War of Independence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)Drawing on a long tradition of area studies on irregular warfare and county studies in Irish history, this thesis examines the Irish War of Independence in the counties of Dublin and Roscommon. The thesis centres on the ... -
FISHING FOR SURVIVAL IN THE ?BLUE ECONOMY?? FOUND POEMS FROM THE IRISH ISLANDS
(ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies., 2022)Almost three thousand islanders live on eighteen islands off the west coast of Ireland. These islands are not connected to the mainland by a land causeway. While many of these islands are dependent on a small-scale fishing ... -
Reflections on methodological tensions in doing qualitative research at the science-policy-community interface
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Carrying out qualitative, participatory research at the science-policy-community interface can yield methodological tensions for the engaged researcher. Increasing calls for early career researchers to do policy-engaged ... -
From protest to participation: Learning from experience in Irish inshore fisheries management
(Springer, 2020)Approximately 86% of Irish fishing vessels, as of 2018, are classified as small-scale or inshore (under 12 m in length). These vessels are predominantly active within Ireland’s territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles) ... -
Edward Hart: Bricklayer, Theologian and Nonjuring Martyr
(2021)This paper explores the neglected manuscripts and publications of Edward Hart, an early eighteenth-century Nonjuring bricklayer, whose determination to promote his cause ultimately led to his death. By discussing Hart’s ... -
Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs
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Art and the Irish Free State - visualizing nationhood (1922 - 1934)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)This thesis examines how the Irish Free State harnessed visual art for its political purposes in the 1922-34 period. The time frame chosen for this study is purposeful. It spans two different Post-Treaty government ... -
The lost fragment of Claudius of Turin's Chronicle rediscovered, and the relation between Paris BnF Lat. 5001 and Lat. 7400B
(2020)In 1657, Pierre Labbe published two fragments of Claudius of Turin’s Chronicle. The first was subsequently identified with Paris BnF Lat. 5001, 1r-8v, while the second was believed to be lost. This article announces the ... -
A.D. 672 - the apex of apocalyptic thought in the early medieval Latin West?
(de Gruyter, 2020)In Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the Second Coming of Christ was connected to the beginning of the seventh millennium. This raised apocalyptic expectations for the end of sixth millennium. When exactly this was ... -
The mechanics of lunar calendars and the modes of calculating Easter, AD 400-1100: contexts and perspectives
(Centro italiano di studi sull'alto medioevo, 2020)Perspectives on historical periods and their watersheds change according to the lens employed. The medieval period may be considered to have started politically in Gibbon’s terms with the Fall of Rome and the formation of ...
