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  • Silhouettes in a City: Women, Work and Welfare in Dublin, c. 1890- 1930s 

    Frehill, Olivia Anne (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)
    This thesis investigates the position of women workers in Dublin in the period c. 1890-1930s. It focuses on women as employees in paid employment, rather than as business owners, self-employed innovators, house workers, ...
  • The Medicalisation of Death in a Dublin City Workhouse, 1872-1920 

    Zimmerman, Shelby Beth (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)
    This thesis examines the role the South Dublin Union (SDU) workhouse played in Dublin's medical landscape for the sick and dying poor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries during periods of normal operation. ...
  • Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941): her art and politics, a critical examination 

    Baker, Hannah Joanne (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)
    This thesis critically assesses Sarah Cecilia Harrison (1863-1941) as an artist, a political activist and a social and cultural campaigner. In each of these roles she was an instigator rather than follower. The account ...
  • Four wooden ceilings from the Torrijos Palace, Toledo 

    Mc Sweeney, Anna (2023)
    Prior to the demolition around 1917 of the late fifteenth-century palace built in Torrijos, near Toledo, for Gutierre de Cárdenas, a prominent soldier and courtier, and his wife, Teresa Enríquez, four intricate painted ...
  • Toil, Soil, and Spoils: The Unemployment Relief Scheme for Archaeological Purposes, from 1934 to 1940 

    Barrett, Rachel (Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)
    In 1934 a programme of relief schemes was devised by the Irish government to address chronic unemployment throughout the country. The inclusion of archaeological excavations was a significant step forward for the under-funded ...

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