School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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?An Incalculable Amount of Misery?: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3 and the South Dublin Union
(2018)From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ... -
'A mission-minded nation': popular domestic experiences of the Irish Catholic missionary movement in the twentieth century
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)By the mid-twentieth century missionary activity to pagan countries had become an integral feature of Irish Catholic culture. In 1955 it was estimated that over 4,500 Irish men and women were working abroad with the aim ... -
Replanting Ireland: Parliamentary debate and expert literature on Irish state forestry 1922 to 1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This research is focused on forest-related discourse in the Irish Parliament and in expert literature around the time of the foundation of the Irish state in 1922. In contrast to most European Countries, but in tandem with ... -
The power of display: exhibition cultures and exhibited cultures in Ireland 1973-1991
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2020)This research project presents a methodological and theoretical framework for conducting research on the knowledge-making capacity of museum displays in Ireland. As active agents in the production of knowledge, museum ... -
'The development of Irish identity: political aspiration and literary conceptions, 600-919
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis examines the development of an Irish identity in the early medieval period. It covers roughly three centuries, from 600 to 919, and it focuses for the most part on the formation of an Irish political identity, ... -
Improving pathways to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research for the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences: first lessons from the SHAPE-ID project - Policy Brief
(2020)This policy brief presents key issues and challenges for fostering interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research in Europe, focusing on the participation of the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences in such research. It ... -
Final Report on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research and Factors of Success and Failure
(2020)This report presents findings from a literature review and survey undertaken as part of the SHAPE-ID Horizon 2020 project (https://www.shapeid.eu), which addresses the challenge of improving interdisciplinary research (IDR) ... -
Report on Survey among interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary researchers and post-survey interviews with policy stakeholders
(2020)Through a qualitative survey among European researchers and interviews with policy makers we hope to enhance knowledge about interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. The survey and interviews were carried out ... -
Preliminary Report of Literature Review on Understandings of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research
(2019)This report presents emerging findings from a literature review being undertaken as part of the SHAPE-ID Horizon 2020 project (https://www.shapeid.eu), which addresses the challenge of improving interdisciplinary research ... -
Wealth, Violance and Status: Lay and Ecclesiastical Élites in the Middle Loire Valley, c. 850- c. 1150
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)Interpretations of the period following the disintegration of the Carolingian empire in Western Europe at the end of the ninth century have long divided historians, between those who believe a violent rupture in political ... -
Kingship, lordship, and resistance: a study of power in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted 'power' in a very narrow way. Engagement with the rich corpus of international literature on power reveals the sheer complexity and ... -
Climatic and Societal Impacts of a "Forgotten" Cluster of Volcanic Eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
(2020)Recently revised ice core chronologies for Greenland have newly identified one of the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium as occurring between 1108 and 1113 CE. Long considered the product of the 1104 ... -
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
(2020)Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ... -
Languages of war: How Italian combat officers wrote about the great war 1915-1918
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)An investigation of the impact of the war experience on language, mentalities and writing activity through the analysis of fifteen war writings, including diaries and letter collections. The content, style, writing attitudes ... -
Hoi prostatai tes Iernaias demokratias toi demoi ton Iernaion chairein
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'Isidore of Seville and the formation of medieval computus
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Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800
(2020)As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400–1700), the early modern “invention” of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the ... -
Ecological globalisation, serial depletion and the medieval trade of walrus rostra
(2020)The impacts of early ecological globalisation may have had profound economic and environmental consequences for human settlements and animal populations. Here, we review the extent of such historical impacts by investigating ... -
Witte Volder [Dutch translation of 'Pangur Bán']
(Trinity Centre for Literary Translation, 2017)
