Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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John Fitzgibbon, Earl of Clare : a study in politics and personality
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992) -
John FitzThomas, fifth lord of Offaly and first earl of Kildare, 1287-1316: a study of an Anglo-Irish magnate
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1997) -
John of Salisbury (c.1120-1180) : the career and attitudes of a schoolman in church politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1988) -
Justice for all? Access by ethnic groups to the English royal courts in Ireland, 1252-1318
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The notion that all Gaelic people were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the royal courts in Ireland, upon the advent of the English in c.1169, has become so established in the national consciousness of Ireland ... -
Kathleen Clarke: A Life Proclaimed
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ... -
Kingship in the political thought of Pope Gregory V11 (1073 - 85)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)Gregory VII is remembered as the pope who initiated the notion of the supremacy of the apostolic see in temporal as well as ecclesiastical matters. The assumption in the twentieth and twenty-first century secondary literature ... -
Kingship, lordship, and resistance: a study of power in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)This thesis starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted 'power' in a very narrow way. Engagement with the rich corpus of international literature on power reveals the sheer complexity and ... -
Kitchen politics: a cultural history of Irish domestic servants in England and the United States, c. 1870-1945
This thesis examines the representation of Irish domestic servants in Anglo-American culture over the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The perceived difficulties of managing domestic help were a prominent feature ... -
La diocesi di Armagh e l'arcivescovo Fiorentino Ottaviano del Palagio (1480-1513) : incluso un regesto del suo registro arcivescovile
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996) -
Land ownership changes in the County of Louth in the seventeenth century
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992) -
Land, politics, and society in eighteenth century Tipperary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1987) -
Landlord responses to the Irish land war, 1879-1882
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2006)This dissertation examines rural class conflict in Victorian Ireland at a critical point when the simmering antagonism of tenant farmers over access to and possession of the land became fused with a nationalist movement ... -
Languages of war: How Italian combat officers wrote about the great war 1915-1918
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)An investigation of the impact of the war experience on language, mentalities and writing activity through the analysis of fifteen war writings, including diaries and letter collections. The content, style, writing attitudes ... -
Later medieval cross-cultural interactions : the settlement evidence in the baronies of Overk, county Kilkenny and Clanmahon, county Cavan
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis seeks to cast further light on the nature of cross-cultural interactions between the Gaelic-lrish and the Anglo-Normans in high and late medieval Ireland, by examining the archaeological evidence for settlement ... -
Legal position and living conditions of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland, c.680 - c.1170
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis discusses the non-noble classes of early medieval Ireland under the categories of 'commoner' - a hereditary landowning freeman of non-noble status, most typically termed in Irish bóaire; 'peasant' - a semi-free ... -
Legitimisation of Sacral Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland and England, 6th to Mid-9th Centuries AD
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis is a comparative analysis of sacral kingship in early medieval Ireland and England from the sixth to mid-ninth centuries that explores the nature of kingship during a period of religious conversion in two ... -
Letter writing in seventh-century Europe: the case of Columbanus's Epistulae
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The goal of this project is to present a comprehensive commentary to the collection of five Latin letters attributed to the Irish abbot and monastic founder Columbanus (c. 550-615). He was the first Irish man of letters ... -
Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon : Jacobite at the Regency court 1715 - 1725
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This doctoral thesis examines Jacobite affairs between 1715 and 1725 by means of the Jacobite service of French Lieutenant-General Arthur Dillon. It investigates Dillon’s various roles and principal relationships entailed ... -
Lionel of Clarence and Ireland, 1361-1366
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1978) -
Managing a medieval frontier: government policy towards the Irish marches and the lands beyond them, c.1200-c.1318
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis explores methods employed by the Dublin administration during the long thirteenth century in its efforts to manage the colonial frontiers and to minimise their impingement on government activities and finances. ...