School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Generic fluctuations : metapoetic water in propertius
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2009)The objective of this thesis is to offer a comprehensive analysis of the role of metapoetic water symbolism in Propertius. The pervasiveness of water imagery in all four books of the corpus, and the poet’s artistic ... -
Famine evictions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis addresses the subject of famine evictions using a diverse range of sources and methodologies. Archival sources such as the files of the Chief Secretary of Ireland's office, registered papers and ejectment books ... -
Cyprus, from Basileis to Strategos : social power and the archaeology of religion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)Note: Published Monograph also available: Religion and Social Transformations in Cyprus : From the Cypriot Basileis to the Hellenistic Strategos. Publisher: Brill, 2012. ISBN: 9789004224353 ; e-ISBN 9789004233805; Series: ... -
The poetics of Claudian : panegyric in the ancient epic tradition
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2006)The purpose of this thesis is to examine Claudian’s political work as epic poetry, written by a poet who specifically associates himself with Homer, Ennius and Vergil, and whose work alludes to the epics of Ovid, Lucan, ... -
The career of William Conolly, 1689-1729
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis focuses on the career of William Conolly (1662-1729). Conolly’s origins are slightly obscure. He was bom in Ballyshannon Co. Donegal but his family’s background is unknown although he and his father were ... -
Imago Hortorum : the cultural significance of gardens in Roman Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2005)This thesis is concerned with the cultural significance of gardens in Roman society: how they were used and how they were perceived. It takes as its source of inspiration Pliny the Elder’s statement that the urban poor of ... -
Barbarian among barbarians : a study of Euripides' Iphigenia in Taurus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2004)This thesis is a new reading of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris, and argues that, contrary to common scholarly opinion, Iphigenia in Tauris is a serious tragedy which engages with serious issues, and is as finely constructed ... -
Archaeology and the State: an examination of archaeological practice and official interpretation of archaeological remains in Israel and the Republic of Cyprus
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)This thesis examines the factors determining archaeological practice and management in the Republic of Cyprus and Israel. It thus looks at the historical background to heritage management and the specific infrastructural ... -
Running at the Devil with God's word. The pamphlets of the Early-Reformation preacher, Jacob Strauss
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis examines the printed pamphlets of a preacher of the early German Reformation, Jacob Strauss. The analysis is based primarily on my translations from German of Strauss's pamphlets; manuscript evidence from the ... -
The iconography of mythological themes in German art c.1920-1950
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2000)The purpose of the dissertation is an iconographical analysis of works on mythological themes during the period of the Third Reich: including the lead up to it in the 1920s, and the immediate aftermath to around 1950. As ... -
The archaeology of medieval ecclesiastical settlement in the barony of Lower Dundalk, Co. Louth
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis is a regional study of the archaeology of medieval ecclesiastical settlement in the barony of Lower Dundalk, Co. Louth, from c. 1000-1650. In the absence of excavation, the primary aim of this thesis was to ... -
The operation of the Great Southern Railway during the Emergency
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis examines the operation of the Great Southern Railway during the Emergency period. The GSR operated all railway lines which lay wholly within Eire, together with large bus and lorry fleets. It was on the verge ... -
Dark spots' in Irish society : unmarried motherhood, crime and prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis examines unplanned pregnancy in Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the unmarried women who feature in the judicial records of infanticide and abortion trials. Chapter ... -
Landlord responses to the Irish land war, 1879-1882
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)This dissertation examines rural class conflict in Victorian Ireland at a critical point when the simmering antagonism of tenant farmers over access to and possession of the land became fused with a nationalist movement ... -
Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa, 1955-75 : a changing mission
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis uses the example of sub-Saharan as a framework through which to analyse the evolution of Irish foreign policy between 1955 and 1975. It was a period of considerable change. When Ireland joined the United Nations ... -
Letum non omnia finit : reading Vergilian intertextuality in Propertius 4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2008)The objective of this thesis is to assess the extent and nature of Propertius' reception of Vergil in Book 4 of his elegies. Vergil's death preceded the publication of Propertius 4 by at least three years, thereby enabling ... -
Out of the cave : comparative studies on the themes of unconcealment and transcendence in Plato from a Heideggerian perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2002)In this dissertation I set out to establish a series of closely connected theses which will support the broad thesis of this work that Heidegger’s thinking - especially in the period around Being and Time occupies a proximity ... -
Imaging the Byzantines : Latin perceptions, representations, and memory, c.1095-c.1230
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)On 16 April 1204, Constantinople fell to the armies of the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire was dismembered among its conquerors. More than six hundred years later, a controversy over the diversion of the Fourth ... -
No affair before us of greater concern : the war at sea in Ireland, 1641-1649
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis examines the war at sea in Ireland between 1641 and 1649. The significance of the maritime conflict that took place on the Irish coast has been overshadowed by the military campaigns on land during this decade. ... -
War and revolution : County Fermanagh and its borders, c.1640-c.1666
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis reconstructs the religious, military, political and socio-economic framework of County Fermanagh and its borders during the turbulent and revolutionary mid-seventeenth century, it examines a period of intense ...
