Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Battle at long range : correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914, a social and cultural history
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Beyond Mission: Willibrord as a Political Actor between Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The thesis reassesses the activity of the Northumbrian cleric Willibrord (658 739) on the continent between 690 and 739. Traditionally, Willibrord has been perceived as the first representative of a new wave of Anglo-Saxon ... -
Bias-cut justice: the legal pursuits of Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, Countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye c. 1180-1216
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye were contemporaries navigating the justice system in thirteenth-century England primarily under the reign of King John. The following study traces key ... -
Biography, romance and chivalry : Barbour's The Bruce and Chandos Herald's La vie du Prince Noir
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to establish the form and function of two late fourteenth- century biographies of royal subjects in Britain: John Barbour’s The Bruce, which was written circa 1375, and Chandos Herald’s La vie du ... -
The British popular press and Ireland, 1922-32
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Concentrating on the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, this thesis examines the relationship between the British popular press and Ireland across the first decade of Irish independence. Undertaking cover-to-cover ... -
Calvin and humanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)Calvin and humanism is an extensive and controversial topic the treatment of which depends to a considerable extent on the type of approach and method adopted. The introduction provides an overview of the special difficulties ... -
Captain Barnaby Rich (1542-1617) : Protestant witness in Reformation Ireland
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Catholicism in the province of Armagh, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)The thesis explores the evolution of Roman Catholicism in the province of Armagh from 1603 to 1641. The ecclesiastical province of Armagh embraces Ulster together with north Leinster, which in the catholic community of the ... -
Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland 1660 -1691
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)By 1660, the Common Law was widely, if not universally, applied in Ireland. For the English and Protestant interest, the law was the principal means of enforcing the mandate of the administration, short of military ... -
Censorship in the two Irelands 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)This thesis was based on archival research in the repositories named in the bibliography. This was supplemented by secondary sources where primary sources were inadequate or unavailable. Archival research has been supplemented ... -
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 ... -
Charles Stewart Parnell in the context of his family and social background
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1974) -
Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Church and polity in pre-Norman Ireland : the case of Glendalough
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1995) -
Classical erudition in the letters of Peter of Blois
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1212) is best known for the collection of letters dedicated by him to King Henry II of England. Regarded as a model of the art of medieval letter-writing, his collection influenced subsequent ... -
Clerical opposition to the Franco regime in the dioceses of Barcelona, Vitoria and Bilbao after the civil war (1939-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002) -
Colonial nationalism in Ireland, 1692-1725 : from Common Law to Natural Right
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1985) -
Colonial prisoners of war and Vichy France, 1940-1942 : experiences and politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis traces the experience and politics surrounding the prisoners of war from the French colonies captured by the Germans in 1940. These colonial prisoners of war (CPOWs) come from across the French Empire to fight ... -
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 ... -
Completing the Union : the politics of implementation in Ireland, 1801-1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Act of Union came into operation on 1 January 1801. Its implementation took years to effect. By examining the administrations of the three viceroys immediately concerned with implementing the union, Hardwicke, Bedford, ...