Browsing School of Histories and Humanities by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"
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14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800
(Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2021)14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ... -
The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
The architectural sources for the Museum Building
(Four Courts Press, 2019)If the purpose of this research project, as stated by Christine Casey at the start of this book, is to highlight the process of making (rather than meaning), then we must query the ‘making’ that went into the design itself. ... -
The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid
(2021)The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ... -
Building the Great Northern Railway (Ireland): Design, Communication and Construction
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)On Wednesday 17 December 1834 the first passenger railway line in Ireland opened. Over the next four decades thousands of miles of railway lines were constructed across the island, creating an expansive network of connectivity. ... -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
The Computus Einsidlensis: First Edition and Translation with an Introductory Commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The present thesis consists of three parts: a commentary, edition, and translation of the Computus Einsidlensis (CE), an early medieval textbook on the calculation of the date of Easter (computus) from Ireland. The commentary ... -
Consuming Behaviours Ireland 1922-1960
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis addresses consuming behaviours in Ireland 1922-1960. Few works have previously addressed the history of consumption in twentieth century Ireland, and this work aims to redress this lacuna. Consuming behaviours ... -
Contesting Chronos: An Exploration of Competing Ontologies of Time in Early Greek Thought
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis explores the diverse ontologies of time that are evidenced in the early Greek cosmologies of Hesiod, Pherecydes of Syros, and Empedocles. Through three case studies, I argue that in order to understand the ... -
Defiant Mourning: Public Funerals as Funeral Demonstrations in the Chartist Movement
(2018)The popular radical movement that developed in Great Britain after the Napoleonic wars under the leadership of Henry Hunt made the mass-platform its main – and most striking – means of action in the fight for parliamentary ... -
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
(2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ... -
Devotion and Polemic in Eighteenth-Century England: William Mason and the Literature of Lay Evangelical Anglicanism
(2019)William Mason (1719–1791), an Anglican evangelical layman of Bermondsey, London, published extensively on theological issues to educate the Anglican laity in the Church of England’s Reformed tradition. Despite the ... -
''The Faithful Remnant of the True Church of England': Susanna Hopton and the Politico-Theology of the Nonjuring Schism'
(2021)Susanna Hopton (1627-1709) is best known for her devotional literature, and her association with the Anglican clergyman and poet, Thomas Traherne (1636-1674). Significantly less scholarly attention, however, has been devoted ... -
The fiction of occasion in Hellenistic and Roman poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)The aim of this thesis is to devise a method for approaching the problem of presence in Hellenistic and Roman poetry. The problem of presence, as defined here, is the problem of the availability or accessibility to the ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
The Geological sublime in Victorian landscape painting
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2019)Very little has been written about the sublime in Victorian landscape painting and it is more commonly associated with the Romantic period. Nevertheless, an examination of the work of mid-nineteenth-century artists shows ... -
The Georgian Castle at Clongowes
(2020)The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ...