Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Factionalism and noble power in English Ireland, c 1361-1423
(Trinity College DublinSchool of Histories and Humanities, 2007)This thesis offers a reappraisal of noble power and political culture in the English colony in Ireland in the late middle ages. It seeks to move beyond narrowly-conceived studies of the colony?s chief governors and ... -
Facts or Fiction? : the Church of Ireland's writting of Irish church history 1838-1870
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis explores a central, but curiously neglected dimension of the cultural and intellectual history of Ireland in the nineteenth century. It addresses the systematic attempt by a group of scholars and academics, ... -
Famine evictions
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis addresses the subject of famine evictions using a diverse range of sources and methodologies. Archival sources such as the files of the Chief Secretary of Ireland's office, registered papers and ejectment books ... -
Femme, famille, France : Vichy and the politics of gender, 1940-1944
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The finances and expenses of the Church of Ireland episcopate c.1660-1740: a study of their resources and spending
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The six chapters of my thesis are intended as a contribution to the task of recovering the backgrounds of the bishops of the Church of Ireland in its most crucial phase of its history. While a handful of historians have ... -
`A Fine Subject to Expatiate Upon.' British Foreign Policy and the Rhetoric of National Honour, 1830-1880.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis analyses the rhetoric of national honour in British foreign policy, during the period 1830 to 1880. National honour?s status as an understated, understudied subject will be addressed, yet this thesis will not ... -
Food and drink : Ireland's overseas trade in the Later Middle Ages
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis examines Ireland's overseas trade in food and drink commodities in the later Middle Ages. The study focuses primarily on trade between Ireland and ports on the west and south west coast of England but also ... -
For class, nation, race or god? : a transatlantic history of the Irish working class movement, 1889 - 1917
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a cultural study of the Irish working-class movement from 1889 to 1917. The aim of this thesis is to explore how transatlantic networks shaped the way the Irish working-class movement crafted its vision of ... -
Freemasonry in Ulster, 1733-1813
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From hovels to homes : the provision of public housing in Irish provinicial towns, 1890 - 1945
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)In the mid-1940s a quarter of all private dwellings in Irish provincial towns had been built by their local councils in the preceding fifty years. In comparative terms this represented a high level of state involvement in ... -
Funeral customs in nineteenth century Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2012)The first part of the thesis is dedicated to the funeral customs of the lower classes. Chapter one analyzes the ‘merry wake’ through a wide arrange of memorials and contemporary sources, stressing the importance of its ... -
Furnished insular Scandinavian burial : artefacts & landscape in the early Viking age
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Gaelicisation and identity in the 'four obedient shires' of Ireland, 1399-1534
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis examines gaelicisation in the ‘four obedient shires’ of the English colony in Ireland from 1399-1543. This region was thought of by contemporaries, and subsequently has been treated by historians, as the most ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gendered symbolism as a medium to negotiate power as evidenced in the furnished Viking burials of Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis is an examination of the gendered symbolism of grave goods as evident in the furnished burials of Ireland. The practice in Ireland is dated to between 840 and 950 CE, a period also marked by violence and warfare ... -
Gladstone, Irish nationalism and the Home Rule question, 1882-93, with particular reference to the Ulster problem
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Government policy, strategies of negotiation and the politics of protest in early seventeenth-century Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)The aim of this study is to provide an analysis of the reaction of Irish Catholics to government policy from the accession of James I in 1603 to the arrival of Thomas Wentworth in 1633. During this period the Dublin ... -
Growing up in Ireland: Constructions of Gender and Childhood 1800-1860
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines cultural constructions of childhood and the experiences of children in Ireland from 1800 to 1860. At the beginning of the nineteenth century childhood was a fluid concept with a variety of meanings and ... -
Guerrilla warfare and the dynamics of violence in the Irish War of Independence
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2020)Drawing on a long tradition of area studies on irregular warfare and county studies in Irish history, this thesis examines the Irish War of Independence in the counties of Dublin and Roscommon. The thesis centres on the ... -
History and Identity in Restoration Ireland, 1660-91
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis demonstrates how history mattered in the politics and society of seventeenth-century Ireland, how authors used the distant past in their arguments about the post-Restoration political and religious settlement ...