Browsing by Subject "History"
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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 ... -
Absolute Nothingness - The Kyoto School and Sound Art Practice
(2017)This paper explores how the concept of Absolute Nothingness as developed in the thought of three key Kyoto School thinkers Nishida Kitarō, Tanabe Hajime and Nishitani Keiji has influenced the practice of sound art. The ... -
An Apastróf agus Filíocht na Scol.
(Carbad, 2008)Is é gnó an pháipéir seo achoimre a dhéanamh ar na teoiricí a chuirtear chun cinn faoin apastróf i dtraidisiúin chritice éagsúla, go háirithe sna réimsí seo a leanas: sa staidéar atá déanta ar sheanlitríocht na Gréigise, ... -
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. ... -
ATROCITIES AT SEA AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE PARLIAMENTARY NAVY IN IRELAND, 1641-1649
(2010)In 1643, Robert Rich, the second earl of Warwick, the parliamentary lord high admiral, issued directions for naval officers in the Irish squadron to execute any soldiers seized whilst crossing from Ireland to join royalist ... -
Best of times, worst of time
(Martello Publishing, 2021)James Malton’s twenty-five engravings of Dublin were first published in London between 1792 and 1797, appearing at intervals in batches. The young Malton had been trained as an architectural draughtsman, coming to Dublin ... -
Business Establishment Opposition to Southern Ireland's Exit from the United Kingdom
(2022)After more than a century of political and economic integration, Southern Ireland exited the United Kingdom in 1922. By identifying the leading business firms of the era and the political and religious allegiances of their ... -
Citizenship and self-representation in the public letters sent to General Primo de Rivera in Spain, 1923-1930
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Hispanic Studies, 2018)The six-year dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923-1930) was a crucial episode in Spain?s twentieth-century history. Amid the post-war crisis of Spanish liberalism, which saw new sections of the population ... -
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 and Societal Impacts of a "Forgotten" Cluster of Volcanic Eruptions in 1108-1110 CE
(2020)Recently revised ice core chronologies for Greenland have newly identified one of the largest sulfate deposition signals of the last millennium as occurring between 1108 and 1113 CE. Long considered the product of the 1104 ... -
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 continuation of the Alexandrian Easter table in seventh-century Iberia and its transmission to ninth-century Francia
(2018)The question of how to calculate the date of Easter was a hotly debated issue in early Christianity. The matter was ultimately decided by around AD 800 in favour of the Alexandrian / Dionysian reckoning, which remained the ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ... -
Deep History: Deeper Waters
(2008)