Browsing Glucksman Memorial Symposium Posters 2007 by Title
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Harmonia Macrocosmica: Andreas Cellarius, 1596-1665 (Part I)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The publication of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1660 represented the completion of an ambitious cartographic project begun over twenty years earlier by the family of Johannes Jansonnius. Jansonnius had ... -
Harmonia Macrocosmica: Andreas Cellarius, 1596-1665 (Part II)
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The publication of Andreas Cellarius's Harmonia Macrocosmica in 1660 represented the completion of an ambitious cartographic project begun over twenty years earlier by the family of Johannes Jansonnius. Jansonnius had ... -
The History of Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This project investigates how and why the once elite game of chess became popular in Victorian times, and the phases of its development up to the caesura caused by the First World War. The research will throw light on ... -
Houses of the Augustinian Canons in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Augustinian canons are first documented in Ireland in the twelfth century and in this there is a clear parallel with the colonization in Ireland of the Cistercians. The houses of the canons range from large, wealthy ... -
Images of older people in Irish children's books
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This study captures an overview of a variety of images of older people in Irish children's books published in the last fifty years. It examines how different models of the older person function in different texts, and how ... -
Irish Foreign Policy and Sub-Saharan Africa 1956-1976
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Using a wide variety of sources, from archival and printed works to the interviews with those involved in policy-making, this project uses the example of sub-Saharan African policy to explore the internationalisation of ... -
The "Joyce Brain Atlas" Project: Mapping the Neuro-Architecture of Modernity
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Like "Second Skin", a dynamic model of architecture pioneered by Marcos Lutyens at the Architectural Association in London, Finnegans Wake asks the reader to extend his/her consciousness to become a co-producer of an ... -
The Land War in County Westmeath
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)In 2003, Trinity College Library acquired the papers of the Smythe family of Barbavilla, Collinstown, Co Westmeath (MS 11198). The collection traces the family's long connection with Westmeath, from their acquisition of ... -
Merchants and Mobility: Dublin 1760-1800
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The aim of this project is to examine the fluidity between social classes and to assess the 'openness' of Dublin society in the eighteenth century. It will determine the ability of merchants, in particular, to enter the ... -
Migration and Cultural Identity in Ulster and Southwest Scotland, 1690-1715
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The 1690s probably saw the largest migration from Scotland to Ulster in any single decade. Fifty thousand is a conservative estimate that is frequently quoted. The movement of such a number of people reshaped both places ... -
"A mosaic of movements": The Joycean Rigmarole
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Moving Histories: Discourses on Irish Women's Emigration to England Examined, 1922-1948
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This thesis looks at the public and private discourses on Irish women's emigration to England in the post-independence, pre-Republic era. -
Neither Here nor There: Liminal Space in Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This project is concerned with the relationship between Susan Cooper's The Dark is Rising Sequence and older texts which explore the idea of the border between the world of consensual reality and that of magic and fantasty. ... -
Parliament, power and patronage, the career of Speaker William Conolly, 1662-1729
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The aim of this project is not to write a biography of Conolly but rather to examine particular facets of his career. His political career has previously been outlined in the political histories of the period and does not ... -
Philosophy, Psychiatry and the Schreber Case
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Daniel Paul Schreber (1842-1911) was a lawyer and judge, who wrote and published an account of his experiences in an asylum. This account was analysed by Freud, who believed that Schreber's dementia paranoides was the ... -
Policing and the Roman Empire
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)The Roman Empire, from the beginning of the Principate (28 BC onwards), had no full-time dedicated police force as we understand the concept. However the state had to deal with individuals and groups who were intent on ... -
Religion in contemporary German-language theatre and drama
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)In the apparently secular late twentieth century, questions of politics, postmodernity, gender or ethnicity seemed to dominate German theatre. But since the turn of the new millennium, observers of the German theatre scene ... -
The Return of the Broad University Curriculum
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)How should the modern university resolve the conflict of whether to meet the demands of the economy or student preferences? Circumstances of economic prosperity, coupled with individual liberty as well as social justice ... -
Risteard O Glaisne (1927-2003): Scribhneoir, beathaisneisi, iriseoir, craoltoir, muinteoir agus gaeilgeoir
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)Born in Bandon, Co. Cork in 1927, Risteard O Glaisne was educated at Bandon Grammar School and Trinity College, Dublin. He is best known in Irish-speaking circles for his books on such diverse subjects as Dr Ian Paisley, ... -
Sacrifice in the Bronze Age Aegean and Near East: A Poststructuralist Approach
(Trinity College Dublin, 2007-06-13)This project will provide a theoretical comparative analysis of the archaeological, iconographic and literary evidence concerning sacrifice in the civilisations of the Aegean and Near East in the Bronze Age. It will offer ...
