Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Dark spots' in Irish society : unmarried motherhood, crime and prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis examines unplanned pregnancy in Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the unmarried women who feature in the judicial records of infanticide and abortion trials. Chapter ... -
Das Deutschlandbild der Iren 1890-1939 : Geschichte, Form, Funktion
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996) -
De Re Sagittaria
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992) -
Deaf People in Ireland: Education, Poverty, and the Law, 1851-1922
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis will carry out a historical investigation into aspects of the lives and experiences of deaf people in Ireland during the period 1851 to 1922. It comprehensively explores, using a 'history from below' perspective, ... -
Death, sacrifice and mourning in German women's art of the First World War
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1919. In the early stages of the conflict, women's art was employed to rally support for the war effort, to appeal to women's ... -
Debating Contraception, Abortion And Divorce In An Era Of Controversy And Change: New Agendas And RTÉ Radio And Television Programmes 1968-2018
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)The study begins with the publication in 1968 of the papal encyclical, Humanae Vitae, forbidding all forms of artificial contraception, and ends in 2018 with the repeal of the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland, ... -
The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The title of my thesis is 'The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40'. As my subject I have used the second Duke of Westminster to examine how the aristocracy reacted to the social, economic and ... -
Defend-protect-support : the evolution of the Irish Military 1956-1978
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis is a study of the evolution of Irish Defence Forces from the period 1956 until 1978. The Coxian approach was used to provide a conceptual framework. Coxian historicism questions how the prevailing system developed ... -
Defending Ireland from the Irish: The Irish Executive’s reaction to Transatlantic Fenianism - 1864-68
This thesis examines the Irish Executive’s reaction to the threat posed by transatlantic Fenianism from the closing phase of the US Civil War to the end of Fenian activity in the year following the Rising of February/March ... -
Defying the IRA : intimidation, coercion and communities in Ireland, 1917-1922
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The primary aim of this thesis is to explore the interaction between the IRA and its communities in Ireland between 1917 and the beginning of the Irish Civil War in June 1922. To do so, it will focus on civilian defiance ... -
'The development of Irish identity: political aspiration and literary conceptions, 600-919
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis examines the development of an Irish identity in the early medieval period. It covers roughly three centuries, from 600 to 919, and it focuses for the most part on the formation of an Irish political identity, ... -
Dicuil's De cursu solis lunaeque: Translation and commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Between 814 and 818, the Irish scholar Dicuil wrote five untitled books for the Carolingian Emperor Louis the Pious (778-840). This thesis provides the first textual analysis of this work in its entirety and a full ... -
Disarming hatred' : French Catholics and the legacy of the Great War; Marc Sangnier, 1914-33
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This study focuses on the cultural legacy of the First World War in France in the period 1914-1933. Specifically, it examines the processes of cultural mobilization and cultural demobilization, key concepts that have ... -
Divorce and civil society during the French Revolution, 1789-1802
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)The aim of this thesis is to examine the complex interplay between revolutionary society, culture, and politics through an analysis of the revolutionary divorce law introduced in September 1792. The thesis shall examine ... -
Domestic servants in Dublin 1880-1920
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1984) -
Drogheda as a case study of Anglo-Norman town foundation in Ireland, 1194-1412
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This case study addresses the foundation and evolution of Drogheda’s civic government as revealed by forty-five charters and other ancillary grants bestowed on the town from 1194 to 1412. This source material will throw ... -
Dublin 1600-1800 : a study in urban morphogenesis
(School of Histories and Humanities, 1972)From the year 1600 Dublin City, for so long cramped behind its medieval walls and towers, began to grow and transform, to expand, and to evolve through two centuries of sustained development into a 'splendid and luxurious ... -
Dublin reformed : the transformation of the municipal governance of a Victorian city, 1840-1860
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)This thesis investigates the reform of Dublin Corporation and its activities from 1840 until the early 1860s. Nineteenth-century Dublin in particular has been overlooked in Irish historiography and, consequently, in general ... -
Dublin's parishes 1660-1729 : the Church of Ireland parishes and their role in the civic administration of the city
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1995) -
East India company career of Sir Robert Cowen in Bombay and the western Indian ocean, C. 1719-35.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis explores the life and career of Sir Robert Cowan, governor of Bombay 1729-34. The broad date range stretches from 1680 to 1750, whilst the primary focus has been on the period 1719-35. This reflects Cowan's ...