Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ... -
Medieval Glendalough : an inter-disciplinary study
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1997)This thesis studies the Early and Later Medieval remains in the valley of Glendalough from different perspectives. All of the remaining field monuments are initially analysed individually with a view to establishing the ... -
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 ... -
'A mission-minded nation': popular domestic experiences of the Irish Catholic missionary movement in the twentieth century
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)By the mid-twentieth century missionary activity to pagan countries had become an integral feature of Irish Catholic culture. In 1955 it was estimated that over 4,500 Irish men and women were working abroad with the aim ... -
Mountifort Longfield
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Natural outpost to Britain's defences : a study of the Irish Treaty Ports 1914-1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The thesis is a general profile of the ports in the period from the beginning ot the First World War to the end of the Second World War, under a number of headings, but it retains the ports as the central topic. The seven ... -
Neither one thing nor the other : The Ulster Protestant community in Cavan, Monaghan and Fermanagh, 1916 - 1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Histories of Irish partition and discussions of the Irish border portray the six-county settlement as the most natural division of the island. This formulation provides a false impression of a cohesive Ulster Protestant ... -
No affair before us of greater concern : the war at sea in Ireland, 1641-1649
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis examines the war at sea in Ireland between 1641 and 1649. The significance of the maritime conflict that took place on the Irish coast has been overshadowed by the military campaigns on land during this decade. ... -
Nobility and crown. The de Lacy family in Ireland, England and Normandy 1172-1241
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This study of the interplay between magnate and crown in the political careers of Hugh and Walter de Lacy involves a fresh look at the high politics of the Plantagenet Empire from 1172 to 1241. It is hoped, however, that ... -
Official Propaganda in the Irish Free State
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This thesis examines official propaganda in the Irish Free State. It takes the perspective that propaganda helped build the state and had a beneficial purpose. This differs from traditional views of state propaganda in ... -
Old English alienation from the Tudor state: a case study on the royal liberty of Wexford 1534-1585
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The early modern period (1500-1700) is a transformative era in the history of Ireland, establishing many enduring processes, some of which still impact today. An important component is the ideological formation of the Irish ... -
One phenomenon, Three perspectives. English colonial strategies in Ireland revisited, 1603-1680
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)Recent years have seen renewed scholarly interest in Ireland s position within the English colonial system during the early modern period. With regard to developments in the seventeenth century, however, the long-established ... -
The Origins, Evolution, and Political Consequences of Britain's New Catholic Policy, From the Conquest of Quebec to the Eve of the American Revolution, 1759-1774
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)Drawing on archival and printed primary collections from Canada, the United States, Ireland, France, Italy and the United Kingdom, and the work of historians throughout many of these communities, the thesis traces the ... -
Ornament and the theories of the arts in the Renaissance
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The thesis is an interdisciplinary study concerned with the understanding of ornament and the relationships between the arts in the Renaissance, as they are disclosed by a richer understanding of ornament in this period. ... -
Papacy and church : the assertion and reception of Papal authority and justice in the Papal letters, 1143-53
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The subject of this thesis is papal authority and administrative practice in the period 1143-53, and how they are reflected through the letters of the papacy. Accordingly, the focus here is on the everyday business of the ... -
Parliament and Community: Theory and Practice in the Insular World, c.1399-c.1460
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ... -
Partition, women, and social policy, 1921-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis analyses how the partition of Ireland affected state social intervention into women?s lives in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It begins its study with the opening of Stormont, the northern parliament, ... -
Permanent revolutionaries : the I.R.B. and the Land War in Skull, Co.Cork, 1879-82
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis examines the Irish Republican Brotherhood at a grassroots level and its involvement in the Irish National Land League and the Land War, 1879-82 in Co. Cork with an emphasis on the grassroots organisers in West ... -
Personal financial management in early eighteenth-century Ireland: practices, participants and outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines the modalities, practices, and options available to, the attitudes towards, and the potential results achievable by personal financial managers in Ireland in the early decades of the eighteenth century.The ... -
Philip I of France (1060-1108) and the development of royal authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis was an attempt to underline the positive aspects of the contribution of Philip I of France (1060-1108) to the development of the Capetian monarchy of France. His reign has been little studied in any language. ...