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The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet realm, 1204-1341
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the place of the Channel Islands in the wider realm of the Plantagenet kings of England from 1204 to 1341. It seeks to demonstrate that the Islands, despite their small size, were viewed by the kings ... -
The Butler Collection
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2000)The Butler Library, the topic of this thesis, is a collection of books which was given to Trinity College in the late eighteenth century. Theophilus Butler, Baron Newtown-Butler, a Dublin based politician who died in 1723, ... -
The Memory of the Norse in Ireland in Middle Irish Dynastic Narratives
(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 ... -
Engaging With The Past: A history of public history on the island of Ireland in the state formation period, and an investigation into the effects of public historical engagement.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis investigates the role of public history, in the form of monumental memorials, in shaping identity narratives during the state-formation period in Ireland and Northern Ireland. By employing an all-island approach ... -
Bias-cut justice: the legal pursuits of Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, Countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye c. 1180-1216
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye were contemporaries navigating the justice system in thirteenth-century England primarily under the reign of King John. The following study traces key ...