School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland 1660 -1691
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)By 1660, the Common Law was widely, if not universally, applied in Ireland. For the English and Protestant interest, the law was the principal means of enforcing the mandate of the administration, short of military ... -
Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Into the Void: Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1915 Kerstina Mortensen Illness, Death, and the Psychological Self; fuelled by European pessimism and the perceived degeneration of society at the turn of the 20th Century, ... -
''The Faithful Remnant of the True Church of England': Susanna Hopton and the Politico-Theology of the Nonjuring Schism'
(2021)Susanna Hopton (1627-1709) is best known for her devotional literature, and her association with the Anglican clergyman and poet, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674). Significantly less scholarly attention, however, has been devoted ... -
The Iveagh Trust of Dublin: A Constructed Community, 1889-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)The Iveagh Trust, founded by Sir Edward Cecil Guinness (later Lord Iveagh) in 1890, was a philanthropic housing institution established for the ?amelioration of the condition of the poor labouring classes of Dublin?. It ... -
Experiences of establishing and managing 'artist-run' exhibition spaces in Dublin, from 2005 to 2015.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)This thesis explores the phenomenon of visual arts exhibition organisations known as 'artist-run spaces' in Dublin, from 2005 to 2015. This marks a period of unprecedented growth of the phenomenon, followed by a rapid ... -
Irish physical force republicanism in Britain, 1919-1923
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis studies the activities of Irish republicans - mainly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - in Britain from the outbreak of the war of independence in 1919 to the end of the civil war in 1923. It is based on my ... -
Interrogation, ill-treatment and intelligence : Northern Ireland, 1971-78
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Drawing extensively upon archival material, complemented by official reports, legal documents and secondary sources from a range of disciplines, this thesis examines the origins, nature, and outcomes of the alleged systematic ... -
Liturgy and architecture in medieval Ireland ca. 1100- ca. 1315: evidence from the Diocese of Killaloe
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2011)This thesis examines the standing fabric of medieval churches within the diocese of Killaloe that documentary and architectural evidence indicate were in continuous or intermittent usage from the twelfth through fifteenth ... -
Expressions of victory, Hellenism and power : the development of Campus Martius from the foundation of Rome to the end of the Republic
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The Campus Martius, Rome, was a flood plain to the north of the city of ancient Rome that was characterised by its extra-pomerial location and its overtly level, spacious, nature. The way in which the Campus Martius ... -
Defying the IRA : intimidation, coercion and communities in Ireland, 1917-1922
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the IRA and its communities in Ireland between 1917 and the beginning of the Irish Civil War in June 1922. To do so, it will focus on civilian defiance ... -
Pictures from the sea : the role of marine imagery and artefacts in the Bronze Age Aegean
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The Minoan civilisation which flourished on Crete in the Bronze Age delighted in depicting sea creatures in art. The marine world featured in every artistic medium and had great longevity within the Minoan artistic repertoire. ... -
Ireland in perspective : the art of Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2002)This dissertation set out to evaluate the contribution of an artist known by the double artistic persona, Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland. It is the first critical analysis of the artist’s work over the past forty years. ... -
The life and work of H. Jones Thaddeus 1859-1929
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2000)The early chapters of this thesis cover Harry Jones Thaddeus’s formative years, including his youth in Cork, where he attended and excelled at the Cork School of Art, and received his first commissions, the important period ... -
Women in policing in Ireland, 1915-78 : with particular reference to the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, and An Garda Síochána
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a thematic historical study of the employment of women on full-time police duty in pre-independent and independent Ireland. It is the product of independent, academic research, conducted under the supervision ... -
Following the Life-Cycle of Base-Ring Female Figurines in Late Bronze Age Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)This research investigates the Late Cypriot II–IIIA or Base-Ring female terracotta figurines from the moment they were just a lump of clay until their death/discard aiming to get fresh insights on their use, role, character ... -
Anglo-Irish architectural exchange in the early eighteenth-century : patrons, practitioners and pieds-à-terre
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2015)This study sets out to bridge the gap between the formal architectural histories of London and Dublin in the early Georgian period, establishing the links between the vibrant architectural cultures of the two capital cities, ... -
A hierarchical image processing approach to analysis of early medieval manuscript art
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2015)The discipline of art history is one in which digital technologies have traditionally played a minor role. Recently with advances in computing methods, software and the capabilities of hardware, art analysis has begun to ... -
Unearthing a forgotten Medieval Building Technique An Examination of Earth Mortared Stone Construction in Later medieval Ireland (1100-1600AD)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)In Ireland a largely missing domestic medieval settlement record stimulated archaeological research into understanding its absence. Regional field survey of standing later medieval buildings in north-west Ireland combined ... -
The Cosmos in the Making: Humans, Gods and Animals in Early Greek Theogonies
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis focuses on three early Greek cosmological poems, Hesiod's Theogony, the Orphic Derveni Theogony, and Protagoras' myth from Plato's homonymous dialogue. All three are variations on the same mythical material and ... -
Defiant Mourning: Public Funerals as Funeral Demonstrations in the Chartist Movement
(2018)The popular radical movement that developed in Great Britain after the Napoleonic wars under the leadership of Henry Hunt made the mass-platform its main – and most striking – means of action in the fight for parliamentary ...
