School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Partition, women, and social policy, 1921-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis analyses how the partition of Ireland affected state social intervention into women?s lives in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It begins its study with the opening of Stormont, the northern parliament, ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
Justice for all? Access by ethnic groups to the English royal courts in Ireland, 1252-1318
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The notion that all Gaelic people were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in c.1169, has become so established in the national consciousness of Ireland ... -
Geography and Empire in Virgil's Georgics. A study of the poem and its reception in Britain and the British Empire, c.1820-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis is a history of Virgil?s Georgics, one which combines a reading of the text (Chapter 1) with investigation of its reception in Britain and the British empire (Chapters 2 and 3). It argues that an aesthetic trend ... -
Name Puns and Acrostics in Didactic Poetry: Reading the Universe
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Ireland, 1686-1825
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Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2017)This thesis concerns the work of the artist Billy Quinn during the decade of the 1990s. It was a very productive time for him, and a period during which he returned to a much-changed Ireland having spent a number of years ... -
The fiction of occasion in Hellenistic and Roman poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or accessibility to the ... -
Iambos Polytropos: A comparison of the language of Callimachus' Iambi, Archilocus, and Hipponax
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2017)My work analyses the language of Callimachus? Iambi in relation to the languages of the iambographers who precede him, notably Archilochus, and Hipponax. These three iambographers allow significant scope for intertextual ... -
Extreme Weather, Climate and Natural Disasters in Ireland
(Environmental Protection Agency, 2010)The aim of this project was to collate historical, proxy and observational (recent) records, and analyse the information within this variety of sources for incidences of extreme weather events and natural disasters, which ... -
Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Habitability in the Treaty Ports: Shanghai and Tianjin
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
