Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Subject "Ireland"
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Across the Isles: The Transnational Lordship of the Mortimer Earls of March and Ulster 1368-1398
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ... -
The British popular press and Ireland, 1922-32
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Concentrating on the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, this thesis examines the relationship between the British popular press and Ireland across the first decade of Irish independence. Undertaking cover-to-cover ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Factionalism and noble power in English Ireland, c 1361-1423
(Trinity College DublinSchool 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 ... -
In Search of a Cultural Republic: Intellectual and Literary Periodical Publishing in Dublin 1930-55
The subject of this thesis is intellectual and literary periodical publishing in Dublin from 1930 to 1955. Close analysis has focused on The Capuchin Annual, The Dublin Magazine, Motley, Ireland To-Day, Commentary, The ... -
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 ... -
`Punishment and Service to the Injured State' - Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation, 1840-1852
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The objective of this thesis is to present a comprehensive exploration of the Irish convict transportation system in the period 1840 to 1852. In a two strand approach this subject is examined from the perspective of the ... -
Settlement Patterns and Socio-Economic Change in the Diocese of Tuam c.AD 400–1000
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis explores the inter-relationship between settlement patterns and socio-economic change during the early medieval period in the Diocese of Tuam. A thematic approach is taken, exploring the physical settlement ... -
The `traiterous' and `unfitting' words in Ireland's 1641 depositions: the legal, social, violent, and emotional implications of language
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This doctoral thesis examines the words and speeches recorded in the 1641 depositions. The 1641 depositions documented words of treason but also words of insult or name-calling, which this thesis will focus on primarily. ... -
'Where is she?': Women and Irish Television 1957-73
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis examines the relationship between women and television in Ireland during the long 1960s. It looks at the role of programming in its analysis alongside questions surrounding the status of women workers at the ... -
Writing Ireland in the Latin chronicles and histories of early Plantagenet England
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers a fresh examination of Latin writers' attitudes towards and depictions of Ireland, its affairs and its people in early Plantagenet England. Moving beyond the 'Geraldine paradigm' that has hitherto now ...