Browsing by Subject "First World War"
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Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This special issue deals with the phenomenon of the emergence of radical violence in what might be called `shatter zones? of empires after the end of the First World War. It argues that the emergence of violence was due ... -
The Caesar Affair
(2014)In late 1916, the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee arranged for supplies to be delivered by the U.S. Naval Collier USS Caesar to the Red Cross in Beirut to relieve famine in Mount Lebanon. Political obstruction ... -
The Clash of Empires in Africa: The First World War in the British and German Colonies
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)From its very beginnings the First World War was a global war. The most severe fighting outside Europe took place in the tropical German colonies of the Cameroons and German East Africa (present-day Tanzania), as well as ... -
Constructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany 1918-1920
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The fall of Weimar democracy in 1933 has evoked massive interest among historians and the general public and numerous attempts have been made to explain Hitler's rise to power. In this context, many historians have explained ... -
The Dark Side of Independence: Paramilitary Violence in Ireland and Poland after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This article analyses excesses carried out against civilians in Ireland and Poland after the First World War. It shows how the absence of a centralised state authority with a monopoly on violence allowed for new, less ... -
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 ... -
Female artists during the First World War in Germany, 1914-1918
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The war and its consequences were the dominant themes in German women's art between 1914 and 1918. Their artistic interpretation and observations of the conflict represented the artist's own as well as more general wartime ... -
The Great War and Paramilitarism in Europe, 1917 23
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)In this comparative conclusion, the authors consider some of the most influential trends in the historiography of political and paramilitary violence, with particular reference to the relationship between wartime and ... -
Howard S. Bliss
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Irish soldiers in the First World War (Somme) : annual Somme commemoration
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Near East Relief
(Freie Universität Berlin, 2014)Near East Relief was formed in 1915 to address the catastrophic humanitarian consequences of the Armenian genocide. By the end of the war, the organization had transformed into a vast aid campaign that focused on orphans ... -
Orphans (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)
(2014)War, massacres, displacement, famine and economic crisis left over 100,000 children orphaned across the Ottoman Empire during WWI. Though most orphans were left to fend for themselves, as their numbers swelled, state and ... -
The Syrian Protestant College
(Freie Universit?t Berlin, 2014)In late 1916, the Armenian and Syrian Relief Committee arranged for supplies to be delivered by the U.S. Naval Collier USS Caesar to the Red Cross in Beirut to relieve famine in Mount Lebanon. Political obstruction diverted ... -
Trinity College Dublin 1914-1918: Sources from the College Archives
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Dublin University Officers Training Corps was founded in 1910, shortly before many staff and students departed to fight in the First World War. The OTC also took an active role in the defence of Trinity College and the ... -
Trinity College Library: Manuscript sources for the study of the First World War
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Manuscripts Department in Trinity College Library provides access to research materials relating to many key events in modern Irish history; this includes records of the involvement of Irish men and women, from varying ... -
War Studies at the School of Histories and Humanities
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity is the leading centre for war studies in Ireland. It has particular expertise in the history of the First World War, the Second World War and Irish conflicts. The School ... -
What the Pandemic Means: Perspectives from the Trinity Long Room Hub Covid-19 Blog Collection
(Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, 2021)In the spring of 2020, when the pandemic hit our shores, we were told to stay home. We listened to public health advice and to experts debating the measures required to protect us. Scientific terminology crept into our ... -
Years of Horror: The American Experience of the Famine of World War I in Lebanon and Western Syria
(Cambridge Scholars, 2013)