Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Title
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Walk according to the Gospel order' : theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The aim of this thesis is to examine how epistles and testimonies sent between Quaker meetings in England and Ireland shaped their religious identity and ensured discipline in their communities. The thesis consists of an ... -
Wallace Stevens in creative conversation : the occasion of long-considered sense
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)This thesis contends that Stevens is engaged in creative conversation. His poems generate conversations between each other and with earher poets. For Stevens is in conversation with Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth, Coleridge ... -
Walt Whitman & Edward Dowden : 1869-1886
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2002)This literary history provides an extensive examination of Walt Whitman's reception in Ireland in the 1870s and 1880s, at a time when he was broadly vilified for poor artistry and obscenity in America and Europe. It reveals ... -
Walter Travers and the Presbyterian movement prior to the Westminster Assembly
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The Wandering Minstrels of Compassion: Tracing the Role of Women's Grassroots Peacebuilding in Northern Ireland and Kashmir
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Religion. Irish School of Ecumenics, 2024)Nandini Gupta Women's role in peacebuilding is often internationally lauded: for example, in the UN's Women, Peace and Security Agenda UNSCR 1325. But the questions as to why women mobilise for peace, what they contribute ... -
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 ... -
War of the worlds? : Pluralism vs. market liberalisation: the European regulation of the television broadcasting sector
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Law, 2008)This thesis makes the case for the European regulation of media concentration in the television broadcasting sector. Television broadcasting is currently undergoing substantial and rapid changes. The phenomena of digitalisation ... -
War, politics and the Irish of Leinster, 1156-1606
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Warfarin therapy in the Republic of Ireland : the potential role of neural networks in optimising therapy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2002)Anticoagulant therapy is used to reduce the embolic risk associated with many diseases e.g. atrial fibrillation, deep vein thrombosis and aortic valve replacement. The decision to anticoagulate a patient is made individually, ... -
Waste of Time - Examining the Politics and Temporal Practices of Smart Cities Through Urban Sanitation Systems
In the contemporary city, everything from traffic signals to street lighting to bus shelters are becoming part of the Internet of Things (IoT). With the capacity for sensing and monitoring and the all-important generation ... -
Wastewater as a thermal resource: Exploitation strategies, design methodologies & prototype development
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Disc of Civil Structural & Environmental Eng, 2020)The disruption of the climate was identified as one of nine planetary boundaries, and is one for which we are reaching the limits of safe operation on this planet. To that effect the European Commission launched the European ... -
Water distribution network sectorisation Water distribution network sectorisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Computer Science & Statistics, 2015)A water distribution network (WDN) supplies drinking water to homes and businesses, and links water sources to consumers. Such networks are typically complex and dynamic, consisting of thousands of nodes interconnected by ... -
Water level fluctuations and their effects on lake ecology
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Zoology, 2013)Escalating freshwater demand, triggered by population and economic growth, technological development, urbanization, land conversion and intensification of agriculture is one of the major challenges facing humankind. The ... -
We don't like (to) party : explaining the significance of Independents in Irish political life
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2008)The aim of this thesis is to explain the significant presence of Independents (non-party representatives) in the Irish political system. This topic was chosen because parties have a monopoly on parliamentary representation ... -
Weakness of will and practical reason
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Philosophy Department, 2004)This thesis argues that a correct understanding of weakness of will (that is, freely failing to act as one thinks one has most reason to act) is crucial to a correct understanding of practical reason. Central to a theory ... -
Wealth, Violance and Status: Lay and Ecclesiastical Élites in the Middle Loire Valley, c. 850- c. 1150
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)Interpretations of the period following the disintegration of the Carolingian empire in Western Europe at the end of the ninth century have long divided historians, between those who believe a violent rupture in political ... -
A Web Services Framework for Mobile Payment Services
(Trinity College Dublin. Department of Computer Science, 2003-09)Next generation mobile services are readily emerging into the mainstream services market and this growth is dependent on mobile technologies and their support infrastructure. 2.5G and 3G mobile technologies presently are ... -
Weeping and smiling in Dante's works
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2022)This study shows the function and significance of tears and smiles in two of Dante's major works, the Vita Nuova and the Commedia, filling a lacuna in the existing literature: this dissertation constitutes the first ... -
The Weight of Aristophanes - Plato and the `Other' Comic Poets: An Intertextual Analysis of Plato's Protagoras and Eupolis' Kolakes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis has two aims. The first is to reorient the scholarly norm when thinking about Plato in relation to the genre of Greek Comedy. Since modern scholarship started taking Plato’s relationship to comedy seriously as ... -
"Welcome to the Good Life!" Neoliberalism(s) and Contemporary Irish Women's Short Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2024)This thesis examines the ways in which neoliberalism as a pervasive economic, political, and cultural discourse is represented, recreated, and subverted in contemporary short fiction by Claire Keegan, Nicole Flattery, Lucy ...