Trinity College Dublin Theses & Dissertations: Recent submissions
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Supporting patients and family caregivers in end-of-life care decision-making from the perspective of healthcare professionals in palliative care
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Medicine. Discipline of Occupational Therapy, 2025)Healthcare professionals in specialist palliative care have a key role in conducting end-of-life care discussions with patients and their family caregivers. However, what enables or restricts healthcare professionals in ... -
Glutamine and Cystine Dependence in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer: Metabolic Interplay and Therapeutic Implications
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Biochemistry & Immunology. Discipline of Biochemistry, 2025)Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) accounts for 10–20% of all breast cancers and is characterised by aggressive growth, high recurrence rates, and limited treatment options due to the absence of estrogen receptor (ER), ... -
Fascia: Facilitating Physiological Fluidity and Flow-State for the Actor Body
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Creative Arts. Discipline of Drama, 2025)Interdisciplinary acting researchers often use neuroscience to support their understanding of embodied studio experiences. However, this neuroscience is predominately cognitive. Though neuroscience supports an integrative ... -
Always Some New Frontier: Tourism and the Gothic Imagination in Late-Victorian Egyptian-Themed Fiction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English, 2025)This thesis takes late-Victorian authors of Gothic and Egyptian- themed fiction and studies their imaginative engagement with Egypt as both real-world travellers who wrote about their experiences, or others who wrote about ... -
The social and economic impact of the Williamite war on Ireland, 1689-91
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)Events during the Williamite war in Ireland (1689-91) such as the siege of Derry, the battle of the Boyne and the signing of the treaty of Limerick, remain well-known incidents in popular Irish history, while the Jacobite ... -
Conscription, community and counter-revolution, the Aveyron : 1780-1820
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis investigates the part of conscription in resistance to the French Revolution and Napoleonic Empire, in a rural environment in south-central France. Of necessity it also examines local economic, religious and ... -
The confederacy of pirates in early seventeenth century southwest Ireland : trade plunder and settlement : a historical and archaeological study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This study of piracy in the early part of the seventeenth century in southwest Ireland combined the disciplines of history, archaeology and cartography. Contemporary documentary and printed sources combined with secondary ... -
The 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ireland : a Leinster perspective
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)The ‘Spanish’ influenza pandemic killed between 40 and 100 million people during 1918 and 1919, infecting an estimated one fifth or more of the world’s population. It disrupted society and economies, debilitated the armed ... -
Crime and policing in Dublin, Brisbane and London c.1850-1900
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The aim of this project was to examine the Dublin Metropolitan Police, its history and structure, from the perspective of the men who made up the force, their history and the impact they had on other contemporary policing ... -
Textualising travel in André Gide and Henri Michaux
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of French, 2013)This thesis considers the interplay between real and imaginary travel in the works of Andre Gidé and Henri Michaux, whilst also positing that this interplay can manifest itself in an intermediate form, anticipated travel. ... -
The early choral works of Edward Elgar (1857-1934) in the context of late-Victorian British idealism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Music, 2013)This thesis seeks to place the substantial early choral works of Edward Elgar in the contexts of the composer’s professional development, his rising reputation, and British cultural identity. This contextualisation is ... -
An 'unburied corpse' : the 1798 Rebellion in fiction 1799-1898
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)The 1798 rebellion is arguably the most significant historical event in modern Irish history. It is an analogue not only of the contentious nature of Irish history but of the Irish historical experience itself, and its ... -
The anglicisation of the Gaelic Irish nobility c.1169-c.1366
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis explores the extent to which the Gaelic Irish nobility became acculturated in the circa two hundred years after the English invasion, and the forms which this Anglicisation took. The subject is examined in three ... -
I am the Dark Mirror the vampire of my own heart' : the postmodern vampire in fiction, film and culture 1975-2008
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)This thesis explores the distinct shift of the vampire, in film, fiction and culture, from 1975 - 2008. Each chapter of this thesis represents four ‘cultural decades’ of change, through which we see the development of the ... -
Elizabeth Bowen : empire, gender and travel in the Twentieth Century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2006)‘Elizabeth Bowen: Empire, Gender and Travel in the Twentieth Century’ examines how Elizabeth Bowen (1899-1973) uses travel and transport technologies figuratively throughout her writing to interrogate the historical breaks ... -
Attitudes to rhetoric in the Old and New Academy
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Classics, 2007)The current work is an attempt to reconstruct the history of rhetoric in the Academy formed by Plato in the centuries following his death, up to and including the years of Cameades and his successors. The main texts under ... -
Unsettling America : the malevolent house motif in American fiction
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2009)In setting out to understand the exact nature of the American haunted house, I have endeavoured to become familiar with a wide range of novels and short stories by American authors, from the beginning of the nineteenth ... -
Tephrostratigraphy, magmatic histories and volcanic-climate linkages using high-resolution records in southern Italy.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Natural Sciences. Discipline of Geology, 2025)The relationship between volcanic activity and climate change has long been a subject of scientific inquiry, though it remains a relatively underexplored aspect of Earth, particularly the influence of climate over volcanism. ... -
Psychological Wellbeing and Impact of Traumatic Events on Frontline Health Service Staff Amid the Covid19 Pandemic
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Psychology. Discipline of Psychology, 2025)The aim of this research was to better understand the interplay of factors which influence psychological wellbeing, particularly those which have a potentially negative impact, and to explore support structures that mitigated ... -
Peace-making and propaganda: an examination of alternate succession as a means of justification and consolidation of power in early medieval Ireland, c. 500-1000
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2025)This thesis is an examination of the role and function of alternate succession as it existed in early medieval Ireland, as well as in areas of Irish influence in Scotland. Alternate succession refers to a phenomenon whereby ...
