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  Writing and reading history : a study of Ezra Pound's Malatesta, Jefferson and Adams Cantos 

  Wilson, Stephen (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)

  This thesis examines Pound's claim that The Cantos are "a poem including history" (Pound's definition of an epic). The principal focus is on the three sequences usually referred to as the Malatesta Cantos (VIII-XI), the ...
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  A ryght hooly Virgin : an edition of Harley MS 630 lives of female saints and Saint Alban 

  Tracy, Larissa C. (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2000)

  Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea (LgA) is one of the most influential books to come from the Middle Ages. It was originally written in Latin in about 1260 but was translated into many European vernaculars. It is a measure ...
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  Brian O'Nolan and Irish cultural debate, 1931-1945 

  Taaffe, Carol (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2005)

  This thesis is a historical study of Brian O'Nolan's fiction and journalism which encompasses the early period of his career, from his earliest newspaper publications in 1931 to the first months of the uncensored, post-war ...
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  More instructive than any sermon I know' : the eighteenth-century novel and the secularisation of ethics 

  Stewart, Carol Ann (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2004)

  This thesis argues that there is a connection between the secularisation of ethics in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the rise to moral legitimacy and literary respectability of prose fiction from the ...
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  Textual economies : the performative self in the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince 

  Sinanan, Kerry (Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). School of English, 2003)

  This thesis brings together the writings of John Newton, Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, three figures from both sides of the black/white, slave/slaver, male/female divides who were prominent in the history of British ...

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