Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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The Echo of a Thompson Gun: Folk Music and Left Politics in Ireland and the United States of America, 1951 - 1973
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis explores the link between Irish traditional/folk music and left-wing political organisation in Ireland and the United States of America in the nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies. The study begins in 1951 ... -
Education and the English industrial revolution
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Electioneering and Propaganda in Ireland 1917-1920
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The propaganda and electioneering battles that were conducted by nationalists and unionists, separatists and socialists during the latter end of the Great War and after the armistice compelled transformation and instigated ... -
Enforcing silence : United Ireland, the Irish nationalist press and British governance, 1881-1891
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)This thesis studies the impact of a vibrant and assertive nationalist press on the Irish policies of the Liberal government of William E. Gladstone and the Conservative administration of Lord Salisbury during the agrarian ... -
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 ... -
Entertainment in early Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)The role of entertainment in any society offers an important window onto its values, customs, culture and traditions. The socio-economic and political importance of play and entertainment is demonstrated by its inclusion ... -
European Marine Fish Market Dynamics, 1500 to 1800 CE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)European population more than doubled during the early modern period between 1500 and 1790. A priori, the demographic rise depended on increased food supplies, but to what extent was food security dependable, and what were ... -
Exploring circulation: 'þe proporcions' in a fifteenth-century English miscellany and the vernacularisation of musica speculativa
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)If no copies had survived of ‘þe proporcions’, the assumption might have been that the audience for Boethian music theory in fifteenth-century England was scholarly, clerical, and Latinate. The discovery of a third copy ... -
Factionalism and noble power in English Ireland, c 1361-1423
(Trinity College Dublin, School of Histories and Humanities, 2007)This thesis offers a reappraisal of noble power and political culture in the English colony in Ireland in the late middle ages. It seeks to move beyond narrowly-conceived studies of the colony?s chief governors and ... -
Facts or Fiction? : the Church of Ireland's writting of Irish church history 1838-1870
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis explores a central, but curiously neglected dimension of the cultural and intellectual history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. It addresses the systematic attempt by a group of scholars and academics, ... -
Famine evictions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis addresses the subject of famine evictions using a diverse range of sources and methodologies. Archival sources such as the files of the Chief Secretary of Ireland's office, registered papers and ejectment books ... -
Femme, famille, France : Vichy and the politics of gender, 1940-1944
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The finances and expenses of the Church of Ireland episcopate c.1660-1740: a study of their resources and spending
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The six chapters of my thesis are intended as a contribution to the task of recovering the backgrounds of the bishops of the Church of Ireland in its most crucial phase of its history. While a handful of historians have ... -
`A Fine Subject to Expatiate Upon.' British Foreign Policy and the Rhetoric of National Honour, 1830-1880.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis analyses the rhetoric of national honour in British foreign policy, during the period 1830 to 1880. National honour?s status as an understated, understudied subject will be addressed, yet this thesis will not ... -
Food and drink : Ireland's overseas trade in the Later Middle Ages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ... -
For class, nation, race or god? : a transatlantic history of the Irish working class movement, 1889 - 1917
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a cultural study of the Irish working-class movement from 1889 to 1917. The aim of this thesis is to explore how transatlantic networks shaped the way the Irish working-class movement crafted its vision of ... -
Freemasonry in Ulster, 1733-1813
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From hovels to homes : the provision of public housing in Irish provinicial towns, 1890 - 1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)In the mid-1940s a quarter of all private dwellings in Irish provincial towns had been built by their local councils in the preceding fifty years. In comparative terms this represented a high level of state involvement in ... -
Funeral customs in nineteenth century Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the funeral customs of the lower classes. Chapter one analyzes the ‘merry wake’ through a wide arrange of memorials and contemporary sources, stressing the importance of its ... -
Furnished insular Scandinavian burial : artefacts & landscape in the early Viking age
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)