School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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One phenomenon, Three perspectives. English colonial strategies in Ireland revisited, 1603-1680
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial system during the early modern period. With regard to developments in the seventeenth century, however, the long-established ... -
Thanksgivings in the reign of Queen Anne
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)Dr. Sacheverell's November 5th Memorial Sermon delivered in St. Paul's in 1709 and the reaction to it unleashed a civic and political maelstrom. The published sermon sold in unpresented volumes, the impeachment of the ... -
Defending Ireland from the Irish: The Irish Executive’s reaction to Transatlantic Fenianism - 1864-68
This thesis examines the Irish Executive’s reaction to the threat posed by transatlantic Fenianism from the closing phase of the US Civil War to the end of Fenian activity in the year following the Rising of February/March ... -
Virtue and vice : religion, social hierarchy and gender in English murder and execution pamphlets, 1570-1620
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This dissertation analyses how murder and execution pamphlets reflected and affirmed acceptable patterns of religious belief and social behaviour in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England. The key sources of this dissertation ... -
Untangling the web of data : a critical analysis of the Archaeological Semantic Web
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Managing Marine Ecosystem Services: A review of the Ecosystem Approach
(Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2018) -
The personal letter as a source for the history of women in Ireland, 1750 - 1830
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)The historiography of women in eighteenth-century Ireland has arrived at a key point. In fewer than fifty years it has come close to centre stage on a strengthening foundation of social history. Biography, with its restricted ... -
The empancipation of women and the cultural elite at the turn of the twentieth century : the case of Amy Lowell (1874-1925)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2016)Using the case study of American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), this thesis explores the path Lowell chose to develop her narrative identity and find her own voice in the male-dominated art world at the turn of the twentieth ... -
Early medieval artistic styles in the Romanesque : 'archaic' architectural sculpture in 11th-13th century Tuscany
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2007)This dissertation deals with a type of sculpture that occurs in many Romanesque churches in Tuscany, whose most essential characteristic is the recreation of styles prevalent in early medieval metalwork and marble relief ... -
De Re Sagittaria
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The tower houses of County Tipperary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1984)This thesis examines the form and purpose of the minor castles in one Irish county, with some notice taken of those elsewhere in Ireland and abroad. It uses as evidence the remains of buildings, and printed and manuscript ... -
Royal religious commissions as political propaganda in Spain under Charles III (1759-1788)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2000)This thesis examines the development of religious painting in Spain in the second half of the 18th century as a tool of political propaganda in the hands of a royal patron, Charles III. The period under study begins with ... -
Conscience and allegiance : an investigation into the controversy over Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy during the Reign of William III and William II, 1689 - 1702
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)In the winter of 1688-9 King James II and VII fled Britain and was replaced on the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland by his son-in-law William of Orange and daughter Mary in events known as the Glorious Revolution. ... -
Porphyry's On the Cave of the Nymphs in its intellectual context
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2016)The primary aim of my research project is to analyse and evaluate the symbols and images found in the treatise, On the Cave of Nymphs, in the Odyssey by the Neoplatonic philosopher, Porphyry of Tyre (234–c305 C.E.) and to ... -
Personal financial management in early eighteenth-century Ireland: practices, participants and outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines the modalities, practices, and options available to, the attitudes towards, and the potential results achievable by personal financial managers in Ireland in the early decades of the eighteenth century.The ... -
Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The propaganda and electioneering battles that were conducted by nationalists and unionists, separatists and socialists during the latter end of the Great War and after the armistice compelled transformation and instigated ... -
'...and that created terror'. The dynamics of civilian-combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)" ..and that created terror". The dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923 This thesis explores the dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry in the Irish revolutionary ... -
Mythical Legends, Moralising Commentaries: The Intertwining of the Sacred and Secular in Fourteenth-Century French Arthurian Manuscripts and Ivories
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2018)Although today King Arthur is widely perceived as a figure of British origin, likely due in part to Arthur?s inclusion in Geoffrey of Monmouth?s twelfth-century text, Historia Regnum Britanniae, the Arthurian legends were ... -
Knowledge and Power in the Making of the Soviet Village
(Routledge, 2018)
