Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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S. Ciarán's church and his lands: a study of the history and development of Clonmacnoise
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1995)Clonmacnois was founded in the middle of the sixth century, as a place of contemplation by S. Ciarán. In the course of the following two centuries it became one of the largest churches in Ireland. A considerable number of ... -
Sacerdos Parochialis edited from British Library MS Burney 356 & Exornatorium Curatorum edited from Cambridge Corpus Christi Sp.335.2
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis is in two parts. Each part contains a critical edition of a late Middle English manual of religious instruction. The first edition is Sacerdos Parochialis and is found in eleven extant manuscripts from the ... -
Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. A poststructuralist approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2011)The goal of this study is a better understanding of the practice of 'sacrifice' in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East. This includes animal and human sacrifice, but not inanimate offerings. This has been done through ... -
Safeguarding the stranger : a theology and ethic of protective hospitality from Abrahamic traditions
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2012)The research question for this dissertation is: What are the resources and teachings in the Abrahamic traditions that take hospitality, and more specifically its call to provide protective hospitality seriously enough to ... -
Saints and Celibates : Protestant Identity in the Irish Novels of William Trevor
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 1999)This thesis focuses purely on Protestant identity in three Irish novels by William Trevor, namely: Fools of Fortune, The Silence in the Garden and Reading Turgenev. -
Saliency determination for computer graphics : an experimental approach
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2006)In the computer graphics realm complex objects are abundant, but often need to be simplified in order to be displayed interactively. As the human visual system is far from flawless, advantage can be taken of its weaknesses ... -
Same Frame, New Picture: Changing Gender, Ethnic and Cultural Representation in Hollywood Genre Cinema
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2019)This study explores the potential of a Hollywood genre film to disestablish those retrogressive gender, ethnic and cultural representations that are frequently encoded in the tropes of Hollywood genre cinema. To that end, ... -
Same-Sex Marriage and Conservative Christian Values: A Comparison Between the Republic of Ireland and the State of California (US) from a Post-Legalisation Perspective
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2020)After years of contentious and polarising debate, same-sex marriage was legalised both in the US and Ireland in 2015. However, the relative autonomy of American states and the country s vast size make a single state, like ... -
Sample identification and tracking in biobanks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2010)Biobanks or bio-repositories facilitate the storage and maintenance of biological samples and data to support discovery of biomarkers, therapeutic targets, and the underlying causes of diseases. Such discoveries require ... -
San abhainn do léim bardán : An Bheatha, An Bás agus an Teanga i bhFilíocht Choilm Bhreathnaigh
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2020)Is file tábhachtach é Colm Breathnach i nualitríocht na Gaeilge agus is é seo an chéad mhonagraf critice atá tiomnaithe dá shaothar. Sa tráchtas seo, déantar mionanailís ar shaothar filíochta Choilm Bhreathnaigh. Déantar ... -
San-Antonio Ltd. : competition and domination in the field of crime literature and film noir in post 1950s France
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2007)The modernity of the detective novel, associated with its narratological and formal innovations, entails a reversal of the relationship between the text and its author. The situation of the detective fiction writer, with ... -
Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ... -
Savant: An Accounting and Accountability Framework for Information Centric Networks
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2016)Content Provider i.e. entities that own or are licensed to sell and distribute content e.g., HBO, Netflix, Amazon Prime, which use the IP-based Internet model for content distribution, consume a large percentage of network ... -
"Say it simply [...] say it simplier" : Samuel Beckett and Gertrude Stein's aesthetics of writing worser
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2016)While critics have long acknowledged the critical importance of Samuel Beckett's expressed desire in the Axel Kaun letter, dated July 9 1937, to tear at language as an indication of his changing aesthetics, they have tended ... -
Scalability Issues in Cluster Web Servers
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2002-09)In this dissertation a Web cluster architecture is designed, implemented and evaluated. We believe that the use of COTS hardware and integrated front end and back end software better scalability and flexibility can be ... -
Scanning near-field microscopy of microwave circuits
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Physics, 2002)The topic of this thesis is the development and testing of measurement techniques for high resolution imaging of the field induced by microwave circuits in the near-field region. The theoretical aspects of the near-field ... -
Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Visualisation of Emergent Grain Boundaries on Cu (111) Surfaces
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Chemistry. Discipline of Chemistry, 2023)While nanocrystalline materials offer numerous advantages in various applications due to their superior properties, the presence of grain boundaries inherent to these materials can have a detrimental impact on their ... -
Schistosoma mansoni modulation of allergic responses
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Biochemistry and Immunology, 2005)It has been proposed that in humans infection with certain parasitic helminths may reduce the propensity to develop allergies in infected populations. Schistosoma mansoni is a parasitic trematode that is implicated as a ... -
School development planning : a pathway to school improvement
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Education, 2000)The concept of school development planning is currently a significant policy issue in primary education. The White Paper Charting Our Education Future envisages that school development plans will form an important basis ... -
Schutzraum Familie? Strukturen und Typologien von Bespitzelungsprozessen innerhalb von Künstlerfamilien in der DDR
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of German, 2018)This thesis investigates the interdisciplinary topic of surveillance within intellectual families in the former GDR by the secret police [Staatssicherheit], primarily focussing on those families in which one partner or ...