Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Translating Cambrensis : the history of the late medieval English Conquest of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis examines the fifteenth-century English translation of Giraldus Cambrensis’s twelfth-century Expugnatio Hibernica. Interrogating the extant manuscript corpus of this narrative, the Conquest of Ireland, allows ... -
Colonials in conflict : Europeans in British and German East Africa and the First World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis analyses the experience of conflict in the colonies of British and German East Africa in the context of the First World War. In particular, the focus of this research is on the, to date under-examined, perspectives ... -
Beyond welcoming the strangers : integration policies and practices in Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Sociology, 2015)This thesis focuses on the integration approaches and strategies developed by Protestant Churches in Ireland and Italy following the arrival of an increasing number of migrants within their congregations. Ireland and Italy ... -
Dublin's artisans and radical politics 1779 - 1803
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis examines the phenomenon of popular politicization in Dublin c. 1779-1803, particularly the connection between radical politics and early trade unions. It explores the emergence of coherent working class ... -
Portraits of the city : representations of Dublin in visual art - a thematic case study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2015)This thesis examines the representation of Dublin in visual art, as produced by a range of artists working in Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Thematic in its approach, the artists and artworks discussed ... -
Internment of the Anti-Treaty I.R.A. in the Irish Free State 1922-4
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of Anti-Treaty I.R.A. internment during the Irish Civil War, a period of Irish history, which marked a bitter end to the revolutionary years. On the eve of the Truce in July 1921, there were some ... -
The development of novel synthetic methodologies for the preparation of glycosidase inhibitors
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of Chemistry, 2014)Sugars with heteroatoms other than oxygen in the ring (e.g. iminosugars, thiosugars) are known to exhibit interesting biological activities and possess considerable therapeutic potential. Their biological activity can be ... -
Doomsday machines : technological anxiety in nuclear culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This work is an examination of nuclear war as it appears in the fiction, film and television of the Cold War, from roughly 1949 to 1991, proposing that the depiction of nuclear conflict in the mass culture Cold War constituted ... -
Religion and migration : exploring the religious identities of young migrants in Ireland and young people with migration background in Germany
(Irish School of Ecumenics, 2015)This dissertation explores the formation of religious identities of young Christian migrants in Ireland and young Muslim people with migration background in Germany. The objective of the dissertation is to investigate ... -
Theorising desert islands : the island trope in 20th and 21st Century popular culture
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)In 2013, the popular North American reality television show Survivor (2000- ) broadcast its twenty-seventh season, entitled Survivor: Blood vs. Water, in which contestants from previous seasons were stranded with their ... -
Mid-century poetics : the poetry in prose and verse of Nerval and Baudelaire
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2014)This thesis explores the Janus-like dynamic of the prose and verse writings of Nerval and Baudelaire, by analysing the ways in which they 'stretch' the boundaries of existing forms and subgenres as part of a mid-century ... -
A biblical mnemohistory of 'Egypt' : Exodus as the legitimation of Israelite continuity
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, 2015)The aim of this thesis was to chart the evolution of the tradition in the Hebrew Bible of a migration from Egypt as it relates to the development of Israelite identity, with a view to negotiating a position between the ... -
Temporality in early nineteenth-century Christmas writing
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis analyses the representation of time in Christmas writing published during the first half of the nineteenth century. At a time when the experience of temporality began to shift dramatically due to the innovations ... -
Solfaing : the history of four-syllable solmization to the present day
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2014)The History of Four-Syllable Solmization to the Present Day. This thesis traces the history of solfaing, a four-syllable method of solmization, from its first presentation by William Bathe (1564-1614) in his A Briefe ... -
Representations of overpopulation in nineteenth-century British fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2014)This thesis analyses representations of overpopulation in British fiction of the long nineteenth century, from the publication of Thomas Robert Malthus’s Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) to the publication of ... -
An ecocritical reading of Ursula K. Le Guin's children's fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2015)This dissertation articulates an ecocritical reading of Ursula K. Le Guin’s fiction for children, in particular her Earthsea sequence. Focusing on the formal narrative and visual structures that Le Guin uses to represent ... -
The significance of glass stud gems in insular metalwork, 7th to 9th century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 2006)Decorative glass studs appear extensively on high status insular metalwork between the seventh and twelfth centuries. Their importance is signified by the use of precious materials, attention to minute detail and prominent ... -
Investigation into the Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Cisplatin Resistance in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2025)Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma (OSCC) is the 6th most common cancer worldwide. It is generally aggressive and closely associated with chemoresistance and poor survival. Cisplatin serves as one of the mainstay drugs in the ... -
Approximate Linear Solvers for Scalable Statistical Algorithms
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Computer Science & Statistics. Discipline of Statistics, 2025)Many statistical methods for large, multivariate datasets require solving linear systems whose dimensions are determined by either the number of observations or the size of individual data vectors. This often becomes a ... -
An Investigation of the Effect of Pulsed Radiofrequency Treatment of the Dorsal Root Ganglion on Cerebrospinal fluid, peripheral venous blood and DRG washings in patients with chronic lumbosacral radicular pain
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Clinical Medicine, Department of Surgery, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, 2025)The objective of this thesis is to investigate alterations in the cellular and peptide composition of cerebrospinal fluid, blood, DRG washings and saliva in patients with a diagnosis of chronic lumbar radicular pain scheduled ...
