School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Permanent revolutionaries : the I.R.B. and the Land War in Skull, Co.Cork, 1879-82
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis examines the Irish Republican Brotherhood at a grassroots level and its involvement in the Irish National Land League and the Land War, 1879-82 in Co. Cork with an emphasis on the grassroots organisers in West ... -
It's all a matter of balanced tensions : Irish medical missionaries in Nigeria, 1937-1967
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Prior to 1936 Catholic nuns were forbidden by canon law from practising medicine or midwifery, as these were deemed a threat to their vows of chastity and obedience. Only after a lengthy campaign of propaganda and action ... -
A history of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines) were founded in Tullow, County Carlow, by Dr Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1807. These nuns were part of the unusually fast expansion of simple-vowed congregations ... -
Legal position and living conditions of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland, c.680 - c.1170
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis discusses the non-noble classes of early medieval Ireland under the categories of 'commoner' - a hereditary landowning freeman of non-noble status, most typically termed in Irish bóaire; 'peasant' - a semi-free ... -
A Great and Sudden Change : Lord Castlereagh, economic reform, and the transformation of post-Napoleonic politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Utilizing a political history approach, this thesis presents an account of two distinct, but interrelated narratives of change. Firstly, it presents Castlereagh’s political thought as a process, and seeks to present ... -
The Shirley estate 1814-1906 : the development and demise of a landed estate in County Monaghan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The following is a study of the semi-absentee Shirley estate situated in south Ulster in the barony of Farney, County Monaghan 'on the edge of a great belt of drumlins that sweep from County Down to North Connaught’. The ... -
Ulster loyalism, Ulster unionism and the Irish State, 1970-85
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is the first specialised study into the relationship between Ulster Loyalists, Ulster Unionists and the Irish State during the Northern Ireland conflict. Ulster loyalists are defined as the representatives, ... -
Power and authority : a comparative study of martial law in early Stuart Ireland, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The central aim of this thesis is to provide a comparative assessment of the operation of martial law in Ireland, by demonstrating the dominance of government by the military interest, the impact of martial ideology and ... -
Entertainment in early Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)The role of entertainment in any society offers an important window onto its values, customs, culture and traditions. The socio-economic and political importance of play and entertainment is demonstrated by its inclusion ... -
Oppression and caring : a feminist ethnography of working to improve patient care in Ethiopia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 2002)This dissertation presents a feminist ethnography of working for improved patient care in a hospital in Ethiopia. Its principal focus is on caring (and the absence of it), and how social, cultural and historical issues ... -
Dublin reformed : the transformation of the municipal governance of a Victorian city, 1840-1860
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)This thesis investigates the reform of Dublin Corporation and its activities from 1840 until the early 1860s. Nineteenth-century Dublin in particular has been overlooked in Irish historiography and, consequently, in general ... -
Romanesque chevron ornament
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2001)Chevron ornament was one of the most common forms of architectural decoration during the twelfth century, in particular in Normandy, England and Ireland, and is found in smaller concentrations throughout Europe during the ... -
Education, Cosmopolitan Cultural Capital, and European Elites in the Nineteenth Century
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The development of Irish refugee policy through the prism of the state's foreign policy objectives, 1935 - 1973
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This dissertation asserts that refugee policy was utilised throughout the mid-twentieth century by the Irish government in order to facilitate the successful pursuit of its foreign policy objectives. The period in question, ... -
Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon : Jacobite at the Regency court 1715 - 1725
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This doctoral thesis examines Jacobite affairs between 1715 and 1725 by means of the Jacobite service of French Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon. It investigates Dillon’s various roles and principal relationships entailed ... -
Colonial prisoners of war and Vichy France, 1940-1942 : experiences and politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis traces the experience and politics surrounding the prisoners of war from the French colonies captured by the Germans in 1940. These colonial prisoners of war (CPOWs) come from across the French Empire to fight ... -
Mobile encounters : artists' mobility between Ireland and Britain and the development of performance, video and multimedia practices (1975 - 1999)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2014)This thesis investigates the encounter between Irish and British time-based artists between 1975 and 1999. Taking artists’ mobility as a primary subject of this investigation, the research considers important policy ...
