Browsing Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations by Sponsor "Irish Research Council for Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS)"

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    • All There in the Weave: Duality and Unity in the Art of Richard Tuttle 

      CAMPBELL, SUSAN GRACE (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)
      This investigation into the art of the seminal American Postminimalist Richard Tuttle (1941- ) responds to a 2014-15 survey show at the Tate Modern Turbine Hall and Whitechapel Gallery, London, which spotlighted the ...

    • The Cosmos in the Making: Humans, Gods and Animals in Early Greek Theogonies 

      ALMQVIST, OLAF HUGO (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)
      This thesis focuses on three early Greek cosmological poems, Hesiod's Theogony, the Orphic Derveni Theogony, and Protagoras' myth from Plato's homonymous dialogue. All three are variations on the same mythical material and ...

    • Hoping and coping: Understanding the experience of people with malignant glioma 

      O'KEEFFE, SORCHA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Social Work & Social Policy. Discipline of Social Studies, 2019)
      Overall median survival for malignant glioma or ‘brain tumour’ is limited; few patients will survive longer than two years, while many will live in a prolonged state of dependency with high attendant care needs, early ...

    • Iambos Polytropos: A comparison of the language of Callimachus' Iambi, Archilocus, and Hipponax 

      FELISARI, CLARA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2017)
      My work analyses the language of Callimachus? Iambi in relation to the languages of the iambographers who precede him, notably Archilochus, and Hipponax. These three iambographers allow significant scope for intertextual ...

    • Languages of war: How Italian combat officers wrote about the great war 1915-1918 

      PORQUEDDU, NELLA (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)
      An investigation of the impact of the war experience on language, mentalities and writing activity through the analysis of fifteen war writings, including diaries and letter collections. The content, style, writing attitudes ...

    • The Memory of the Norse in Ireland in Middle Irish Dynastic Narratives 

      Humphrey, Ann Caroline (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)
      Three dynastic propaganda narratives written to valorise the ancestor of a Gaelic patron feature a complicated career against, and at times alongside, Norse speakers operating in Ireland. These are the Cerball of Osraige ...

    • "Some Safe Way of Dying": A Literary Study of Suicide in 1940s Britain 

      BRADY, WILLIAM JOSEPH (Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2019)
      The hitherto unimaginable challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes of the Second World War and its immediate aftermath were, this thesis contends, mediated through a language and imaginative framework of suicide in British ...