History (Theses and Dissertations)
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Kathleen Clarke: A Life Proclaimed
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis analyses the memoir 'Revolutionary Woman', written during the 1940s by Kathleen Daly Clarke, and published in 1991. Kathleen married the Fenian activist Tom Clarke in 1901 in New York. They returned to Ireland ... -
Commemorating the Past: The Breton Church and its Irish Element, c.800-1100
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Brittany's beginnings as a refuge for British migrants meant that, historically, Brittany seemed looked to the Insular world for its culture, language, and religion. Beginning in the ninth century, Brittany faced several ... -
Across the Isles: The Transnational Lordship of the Mortimer Earls of March and Ulster 1368-1398
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis offers an original examination of a transnational aristocratic lordship which spanned the worlds of late fourteenth century Ireland, Wales, and England. The composite lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and ... -
The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet realm, 1204-1341
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the place of the Channel Islands in the wider realm of the Plantagenet kings of England from 1204 to 1341. It seeks to demonstrate that the Islands, despite their small size, were viewed by the kings ... -
The Butler Collection
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2000)The Butler Library, the topic of this thesis, is a collection of books which was given to Trinity College in the late eighteenth century. Theophilus Butler, Baron Newtown-Butler, a Dublin based politician who died in 1723, ...