Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Imaging the Byzantines : Latin perceptions, representations, and memory, c.1095-c.1230
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)On 16 April 1204, Constantinople fell to the armies of the Fourth Crusade and the Byzantine Empire was dismembered among its conquerors. More than six hundred years later, a controversy over the diversion of the Fourth ... -
In Search of a Cultural Republic: Intellectual and Literary Periodical Publishing in Dublin 1930-55
The subject of this thesis is intellectual and literary periodical publishing in Dublin from 1930 to 1955. Close analysis has focused on The Capuchin Annual, The Dublin Magazine, Motley, Ireland To-Day, Commentary, The ... -
?An Incalculable Amount of Misery?: The Smallpox Epidemic of 1871-3 and the South Dublin Union
(2018)From 1871-3, Ireland experienced one of the deadliest smallpox outbreaks in the nineteenth century with at least 3,248 fatalities during the peak, yet was overshadowed by the Famine, fever, and cholera in the historiography. ... -
Interrogation, ill-treatment and intelligence : Northern Ireland, 1971-78
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Drawing extensively upon archival material, complemented by official reports, legal documents and secondary sources from a range of disciplines, this thesis examines the origins, nature, and outcomes of the alleged systematic ... -
Inventing fascism : Benito Mussolini and the Great War 1914-1919
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)The thesis analyses the writings and speeches of Benito Mussolini in the First World War and in the winter and spring following the armistice. It seeks to locate Mussolini's position in relation to the State's reluctance ... -
Inventing the commercial consumer : an historical study of Books I and II of David Hume's 'Treatise of Human Nature'
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2001)The aim of the thesis is to present a contextualised interpretation of David Hume’s theory of the individual in Books I and II of A Treatise of Human Nature. The Introduction (Chapter 1) argues that insufficient attention ... -
Ireland and Chartism
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Ireland and sub-Saharan Africa, 1955-75 : a changing mission
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis uses the example of sub-Saharan as a framework through which to analyse the evolution of Irish foreign policy between 1955 and 1975. It was a period of considerable change. When Ireland joined the United Nations ... -
Ireland and the Irish Sea region, 1014-1318
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Ireland and the Popish plot
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Ireland in the Reign of Henry VIII: The Making of Tudor Political Theology, 1515-47
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)The reign of Henry VIII was a watershed in Irish history. Historians, however, have underestimated the impact of the Henrician Reformation. Exploring the making of Tudor political theology against the North Atlantic and ... -
Ireland, India and empire : Indo-Irish radical connections, 1919-1964
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Irish 'Ingleses' : the Irish immigrant experience in Argentina, 1840-1920
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Irish economic policy and economic crisis, 1973-79
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2013)This thesis examines Irish economic policy in the period between the two oil shocks of the 1970s, 1973/74 and 1979/80 (hereafter the ‘inter-oil shock period’). Seeking to counter prevailing narratives of Ireland’s relapse ... -
Irish nationalist politics, 1858-70
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Irish parliamentary representation, 1891-1910
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1947) -
Irish periodicals in their Atlantic context, 1770-1830 : the monthly and quarterly magazines of Dublin, with comparison to those of Edinburgh and Philadelphia
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)This thesis focuses on the development of Irish periodical literature from 1770-1830. Irish periodicals have received relatively little attention in the historical literature of the period, beyond quantitative lists, and ... -
Irish physical force republicanism in Britain, 1919-1923
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis studies the activities of Irish republicans - mainly the Irish Republican Army (IRA) - in Britain from the outbreak of the war of independence in 1919 to the end of the civil war in 1923. It is based on my ... -
Irish public opinion and the American Civil War
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Irish republicanism and the Cold War : Western geo-political state perspectives on crises in Ireland, 1962-1976
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This is a study of state perceptions of subversion in Ireland before and during the Northern Ireland Troubles. The thesis explores the international dimension to the Troubles in the context of the Cold War and the evolution ...