School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Nobility and crown. The de Lacy family in Ireland, England and Normandy 1172-1241
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This study of the interplay between magnate and crown in the political careers of Hugh and Walter de Lacy involves a fresh look at the high politics of the Plantagenet Empire from 1172 to 1241. It is hoped, however, that ... -
Simplicitas and the Hymni Ambrosiani
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)The overall aim of this thesis is to address the notion that the earliest and most influential of Christian poems, the Hymni Ambrosiani, were formally and linguistically simple. The general position that these highly ... -
Unlike Phoenix from the ashes : Republican constructs of the First World War in Weimar Germany 1918-1920
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis seeks to examine the utilisation of the legacy of the First World War in republican press and propaganda as a central focus of the new state’s foundation narrative. Assessing the role of the war in republican ... -
Later medieval cross-cultural interactions : the settlement evidence in the baronies of Overk, county Kilkenny and Clanmahon, county Cavan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis seeks to cast further light on the nature of cross-cultural interactions between the Gaelic-lrish and the Anglo-Normans in high and late medieval Ireland, by examining the archaeological evidence for settlement ... -
A revolution within : loyalty, treason and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis explores some important questions regarding the origins, definitions and applications of loyalty in Ireland between 1913 and 1921. More specifically, it is an inter-disciplinary examination of the often divergent ... -
The Senate and the Civil War 1922-1925 : Prologue, duration and protracted aftermath
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The Senate of the Irish Free State is the principal focus of this study. The subject is approached from a variety of perspectives within the specific context of the Irish civil war. The time-frame encompasses the civil war ... -
The Tithe War in Ireland, 1830-1838
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The arguments and narrative contained in this thesis were mainly constructed from a detailed examination of four broad categories of primary sources. Firstly, it was necessary to research the mass of state paper material ... -
Irish economic policy and economic crisis, 1973-79
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis examines Irish economic policy in the period between the two oil shocks of the 1970s, 1973/74 and 1979/80 (hereafter the ‘inter-oil shock period’). Seeking to counter prevailing narratives of Ireland’s relapse ... -
The Crusaders and their enemies : the Latin terminology of group identity in chronicles of the First Crusade
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis examines the collective terminology of identity in a number of Latin chronicles of the First Crusade. It is concerned with the language used by the authors examined here to denote the Latin crusaders, the eastern ... -
The Irish population of London, 1900-14 : connections and disconnections
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis examines Irish people in London from 1900 to 1914. The first part of this thesis examines Irish residential communities. Chapter 1 examines the Irish communities in Inner London by analysing Irish communities ... -
Irish republicanism and the Cold War : Western geo-political state perspectives on crises in Ireland, 1962-1976
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This is a study of state perceptions of subversion in Ireland before and during the Northern Ireland Troubles. The thesis explores the international dimension to the Troubles in the context of the Cold War and the evolution ... -
Religious revolution and social crisis in southwest Scotland and Ulster, 1687-1714
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis compares the experiences of the presbyterians of the west and southwest of Scotland and of the Irish province of Ulster during the twenty-five years following the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1689-90. This was not ... -
Pregnant words : a study of the trial scene of Aischylos's Eumenides
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)This dissertation examines Apollo’s λóγoς against maternity in the Eumenides of Aischylos (657-666). The central scene of the Eumenides, the final play of the trilogy Oresteia (staged in 458 BC and also comprising the ... -
Petrarch's Aeneid : critical assessments of Virgil in the Africa
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2013)Petrarch’s Africa is often read as an attempt to recreate the style and manner of Virgil’s Aeneid. Because of Petrarch’s frequent expressions of praise for Virgil, his epic is considered as a kind of homage to an admired ... -
The hospital of St John the Baptist, Dublin c. 1188-1539 : a historical and prosopographical analysis
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The hospital of St John the Baptist was founded c. 1188 by Ailred Palmer and his wife. The hospital was located in the western suburb of medieval Dublin, an area which had seen much expansion and development following the ... -
The architectural and cultural reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its frieze from 1811 to 2009
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2010)This thesis is an analysis of the architectural and cultural reception of the Temple of Apollo at Bassai and its frieze from 1811 to 2009. The reception of this globally important UNESCO listed monument is an area of ... -
The organisation and operation of Uí Neill kingship in the Irish midlands : Clann Cholmáin c.550-916
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This study traces the fortunes of the midland Uí Néill dynasty Clann Cholmáin from the period of our earliest documentary sources, about the mid-sixth century, until the death of the early tenth certury king Fiann Sinna. ... -
Separatist Ireland and Germany, 1919-23
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis examines Irish separatist foreign policy in 1919-23 through a case study of separatist activities in Germany. Separatists built on initial contacts and the work of local sympathisers in 1919-20 to establish a ... -
The castle in the social and geographical landscape of Cumbria, 1066-1250 A.D.
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)The aim of this thesis, ‘The Castle in the Social and Geographical Landscape of Cumbria, 1066-1250 A.D.’, was to examine the medieval castle within the confines of the county of Cumbria, as defined in 1974. The areas of ... -
Tower houses and the maritime economy c.1400-1641 : a County Down case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This thesis investigates how the population interacted with, and contributed to, the maritime economy by looking at three baronies in coastal County Down. It utilises tower houses and associated settlements as a medium ...
