Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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A benevolent society? Local relief committee membership in Ireland 1817-57
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)In all the various discussions and debates stimulated by poverty and relief in nineteenth-century Ireland, studies rarely go beyond generalisations with respect to relief committee membership. The main aim of this thesis ... -
A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1998)This thesis examines the membership of the 1640 Irish House of Commons up to November 1641. It identifies 288 men who were members of the House at that time, matches them to their constituencies, where appropriate, and ... -
A comparative study of imperial constitutional theory in Ireland and America in the age of the American Revolution
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A Great and Sudden Change : Lord Castlereagh, economic reform, and the transformation of post-Napoleonic politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)Utilizing a political history approach, this thesis presents an account of two distinct, but interrelated narratives of change. Firstly, it presents Castlereagh’s political thought as a process, and seeks to present ... -
A history of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Sisters of St Brigid (Brigidines) were founded in Tullow, County Carlow, by Dr Daniel Delany, Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin in 1807. These nuns were part of the unusually fast expansion of simple-vowed congregations ... -
A kingdom united: British and Irish popular responses to the outbreak of war, July to December 1914
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)In the current literature on Britain and Ireland during the First World War there is a significant gap concerning public responses to the outbreak throughout the autumn of 1914. My project rectifies this situation by being ... -
A revolution within : loyalty, treason and the Irish Revolution, 1913-1921
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis explores some important questions regarding the origins, definitions and applications of loyalty in Ireland between 1913 and 1921. More specifically, it is an inter-disciplinary examination of the often divergent ... -
A seventeenth century survivor : the political career of Randal Mac Donnell, first marquis and second earl of Antrim (1609-83)
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A study of landlord and tenant relations in Ireland between the Famine and the Land War 1850-78
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1974) -
Abraham Ortelius and collaborative humanism : virtuous pursuits in war and peace
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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 ... -
Advanced Nationalist Political Activity in Ireland 1910-1917
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the political, as opposed to military, activities of advanced nationalists in Ireland, including the Irish Volunteers, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Sinn Fein, the labour movement, the women's ... -
Alithinologia : John Lynch and seventeenth-century Irish political thought
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This thesis is a study of John Lynch's Alithinologia (St Malo, 1664) and Supplementum alithinologiae (St Malo, 1667). Lynch, Catholic archdeacon of Tuam, was the foremost Irish Catholic intellectual of the second half of ... -
American opinion on the Irish question, 1910-1923
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An account of the mesolithic and supposed epi-mesolithic cultures of Ireland and their place in European pre-history
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1959) -
An analysis of the Dublin Guild Merchant Roll c. 1190-1265
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996)The international composition of the population of medieval Dublin is very well reflected in its Guild Merchant Roll. While the document itself cannot give more than a glimpse of the town and its trade, it nonetheless ... -
An economic history of the Cork region in the eighteenth century
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'...and that created terror'. The dynamics of civilian-combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)" ..and that created terror". The dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry, 1918-1923 This thesis explores the dynamics of civilian combatant interactions in County Kerry in the Irish revolutionary ... -
Anglican army chaplains on the Western Front, 1914-1918
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)In the years that followed the end of the Great War a number of texts were published by veterans of the British Expeditionary Force that portrayed the Anglican chaplains who served on the Western Front in an extremely ... -
Anglo-Irish and Gaelic women in Ireland c. 1277-1534 : a study of the conditions and rights of single women, wives, widows and nuns in late medieval Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis is a study of how women's legal, economic, social and political rights were profoundly affected by their marital state. The aim is firstly to provide a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland ...
