School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Achilles at Rome : studies in the Achilleid of Statius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2000)This thesis is a literary study of the Achilleid of P. Papinius Statius, an unfinished hexameter epic on the life of Achilles. It is, so far as I know, the first full-length monograph on the poem in any language. For the ... -
The sources and themes of the Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny : reform and the Investiture Contest in Lotharingia and Burgundy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)This thesis is a study of the sources and themes of the late-eleventh century chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny, based on the printed edition of the Chronicon in the Scriptores series of the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, and ... -
The IRA under Moss Twomey 1926-1936
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)This thesis is an examination of the Irish Republican Army in the post revolutionary era. Despite its defeat in the Civil War the IRA could still count its membership in several thousand by the late 1920s. It remained a ... -
Neither one thing nor the other : The Ulster Protestant community in Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh, 1916 - 1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Histories of Irish partition and discussions of the Irish border portray the six-county settlement as the most natural division of the island. This formulation provides a false impression of a cohesive Ulster Protestant ... -
Consuming Behaviours Ireland 1922-1960
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis addresses consuming behaviours in Ireland 1922-1960. Few works have previously addressed the history of consumption in twentieth century Ireland, and this work aims to redress this lacuna. Consuming behaviours ... -
Peter Lombard on Titus and Philemon: Tracing patterns in Parisian manuscripts made before c. 1250
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Peter Lombard was a twelfth-century theologian who worked in Paris, which was, at that time, a major centre for manuscript production. This research project focuses on the Collectanea, Lombard s commentary on the Pauline ... -
Midwives of Eileithyia Tracing a female healing tradition in prehistoric Crete
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)The health issues associated with birthing notoriously large and helpless infants have sweeping but barely acknowledged implications in the shaping of early medical systems. Treading uncharted territory, this thesis theorizes ... -
Teaching the nation's past: Irish history in secondary schools, 1924-1969
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis considers the teaching of Irish history in Irish secondary schools post-Independence. It analyses the version(s) of the past set for study, taught in schools, and learned by students in the Irish Free State and ... -
Hyperboreans : Myth and history in Celtic-Hellenic contacts
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2001)In the course of Greek literary history, six authors wrote texts which identify the Hyperboreans, a totally m ythical people who worshipped Apollo, with Celts, a real northern neighbour of the Greeks, or the Hyperboreans ... -
The merchant community of Dublin in the early seventeenth century : a social, economic and political study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis investigates Dublin merchants in the early seventeenth century within the framework of economic, social and political changes that characterised the period. Although sources were hard to come by in some areas ... -
The collected fragments of Syrianus the Platonist on Plato's Parmenides and Timaeus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)This work is a collection of the fragments of Syrianus the Platonist, head of the Athenian school of Platonism from 432-437, on Plato's Timaeus and Parmenides. It includes a collection, translation, and commentary of a ... -
The elite of Scandinavia and their impact on urban settlement in the Viking age
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This work investigates large-scale change evident in the archaeology of selected towns in Denmark, Norway, Ireland and England founded by Scandinavians between AD 700 and 1160, and connects these changes to their historical ... -
Death, sacrifice and mourning in German women's art of the First World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1919. In the early stages of the conflict, women's art was employed to rally support for the war effort, to appeal to women's ... -
Materialising Ireland : archaeology, identity and modernity in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis explores the role of archaeology in the development of modern conceptions of the past in Ireland. The approach contextualises archaeological studies in Ireland within broader psychoanalytic, anthropological and ... -
The lands of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland 1172-1541
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)To analyse the charters contained in the Irish cartularies of the Augustinian priories of Llanthony Prima and Secunda, in order to trace the history of the Llanthony canons during the time that the canons were active in ... -
Unbounded? Gender and body in a recreational drug culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2006)This dissertation explores how a sample of young adults in Dublin experience issues of gendered embodiment in their recreational engagement with the drug ecstasy (MDMA). The study applies a gender studies theoretical ... -
Papacy and church : the assertion and reception of Papal authority and justice in the Papal letters, 1143-53
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The subject of this thesis is papal authority and administrative practice in the period 1143-53, and how they are reflected through the letters of the papacy. Accordingly, the focus here is on the everyday business of the ... -
Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This study focuses on the cultural legacy of the First World War in France in the period 1914-1933. Specifically, it examines the processes of cultural mobilization and cultural demobilization, key concepts that have ... -
Fires in Rome: The ancient city as a fire regime
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2019)This thesis has undertaken two main complementary lines of research: firstly, it has looked afresh at the evidence for urban fires in Rome as presented by the written sources and, secondly, it has reimagined the city as ... -
The British popular press and Ireland, 1922-32
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Concentrating on the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, this thesis examines the relationship between the British popular press and Ireland across the first decade of Irish independence. Undertaking cover-to-cover ...
