School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Neither ruthless militants nor tentative coffee party ? : a comparative analysis of the aims, activities and accomplishments of the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) and the German Federation of University Women (DAB) during th 1950s and 1960s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2013)This thesis is a comparative analysis of the activities, aims and accomplishments of the German Federation of University Women ("Deutscher Akademikerinnenbund", DAB) and the Irish Women Graduates' Associations (IWGAs) during ... -
Cyrus the Great, religion, and the conquest of ancient Anatolia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)With the invasion of Anatolia in the sixth century BC Cyrus the Great began a series of conquests that would form the Persian Empire. For his tolerance and, indeed, support of foreign religions during his rule, Cyrus has ... -
Kingship in the political thought of Pope Gregory V11 (1073 - 85)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Gregory VII is remembered as the pope who initiated the notion of the supremacy of the apostolic see in temporal as well as ecclesiastical matters. The assumption in the twentieth and twenty-first century secondary literature ... -
The life and writings of Odo of Deuil : Abbot of Saint-Denis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)Odo of Deuil is best known in modem historiography as an eyewitness historian of the Second Crusade, having participated in that expedition as the chaplain of King Louis VII of France. Odo's account of the crusade, the De ... -
Anglo-Norman castles and religious foundations in Counties Louth and Down : a comparison with examples in England and Wales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This aim of this thesis is to prove that in the aftermath of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, the buildings constructed by the first wave of settlers reflected the architectural influences of contemporary ... -
All There in the Weave: Duality and Unity in the Art of Richard Tuttle
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)This investigation into the art of the seminal American Postminimalist Richard Tuttle (1941- ) responds to a 2014-15 survey show at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery, London, which spotlighted the ... -
For class, nation, race or god? : a transatlantic history of the Irish working class movement, 1889 - 1917
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a cultural study of the Irish working-class movement from 1889 to 1917. The aim of this thesis is to explore how transatlantic networks shaped the way the Irish working-class movement crafted its vision of ... -
Nomadic texts : travel narratives and Interwar women's writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2009)The years between the wars saw many changes in perceptions of geographical distance, reconfigurations of national boundaries, the destabilization of colonial empires, aesthetic experimentation, and new considerations of ... -
Architecture and aspiration : building Dublin's Victorian suburbs
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2013)The project is an interdisciplinary investigation of Victorian domestic architecture in Dublin, within the broader context of the nineteenth-century city. The study is centred on the developments and acquisitions of three ... -
Crusader artillery, 1097-1148 : typology, terminology and character
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis aims to investigate the use of artillery in the crusades and the crusader states for the period starting with the 1097 siege of Nicaea and ending with the siege of Damascus in 1148. In this forty-nine year ... -
The nude in modern Irish art : tradition and transgression: an exploration of themes and trends in the representation of the nude in twentieth century Irish art
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2013)This is a project with the potential to have groundbreaking implications for Irish art. The nude has long been central to the study of art history but has erroneously been thought to have been absent from art in Ireland. ... -
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Organisational work-life balance : influence of managerial perspectives of gender and justice
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2009)Although the role of managers in work-life balance (WLB) has drawn increasing attention from scholars and practitioners, there remains a dearth of critical inquiry into the complexities underlying their decision-making processes. ... -
Government policy, strategies of negotiation and the politics of protest in early seventeenth-century Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the reaction of Irish Catholics to government policy from the accession of James I in 1603 to the arrival of Thomas Wentworth in 1633. During this period the Dublin ... -
Alithinologia : John Lynch and seventeenth-century Irish political thought
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis is a study of John Lynch's Alithinologia (St Malo, 1664) and Supplementum alithinologiae (St Malo, 1667). Lynch, Catholic archdeacon of Tuam, was the foremost Irish Catholic intellectual of the second half of ... -
The continuation of the Alexandrian Easter table in seventh-century Iberia and its transmission to ninth-century Francia
(2018)The question of how to calculate the date of Easter was a hotly debated issue in early Christianity. The matter was ultimately decided by around AD 800 in favour of the Alexandrian / Dionysian reckoning, which remained the ... -
The Faddan More Psalter – A study of the early medieval book-making techniques and codicology of a recently discovered eighth-century Irish Psalter and an examination of its features and materials which suggest influences both domestic and remote in its materiality and manufacture.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)When in 2006 an early medieval insular manuscript surfaced from the Faddan More Bog in North Co. Tipperary, the event afforded a unique opportunity to study in detail all aspects of what is now 'one of the National Museum ... -
The Jesuits and the Irish Catholic Elite
(2019)Since their re-establishment in the early decades of the nineteenth century the Jesuits have successfully maintained a position at the pinnacle of Catholic elite education. In this article I propose to discuss Irish education ... -
Metrology and proportion in the window tracery of medieval Ireland : an empirical study of Ormond and Connaught
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2012)This study developed a methodology to investigate whether evidence could be found for the application of systems of proportion and metrology to the design of late medieval window tracery in Ireland. Source data was collected ...
