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Geography and Empire in Virgil's Georgics. A study of the poem and its reception in Britain and the British Empire, c.1820-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2018)This thesis is a history of Virgil?s Georgics, one which combines a reading of the text (Chapter 1) with investigation of its reception in Britain and the British empire (Chapters 2 and 3). It argues that an aesthetic trend ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People's Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
(2022)History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people's understanding of their nation's modern ... -
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 ... -
Orpheus the Epic Poet: Reading the Argonautika by Orpheus in the tradition of Homer and Apollonios Rhodios
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2021)The Argonautika by Orpheus , a late antique epic poem by an anonymous author, has until now received little scholarly attention. This investigation studies the work as an epic poem, with particular attention to the anonymous ...