Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Papacy and church : the assertion and reception of Papal authority and justice in the Papal letters, 1143-53
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The subject of this thesis is papal authority and administrative practice in the period 1143-53, and how they are reflected through the letters of the papacy. Accordingly, the focus here is on the everyday business of the ... -
Parliament and Community: Theory and Practice in the Insular World, c.1399-c.1460
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis presents a comparative study of the communitarian language and ideas which underpinned parliamentary institutions in English Ireland and Scotland from c.1399 - c.1460. Recent years have seen a proliferation of ... -
Partition, women, and social policy, 1921-1939
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis analyses how the partition of Ireland affected state social intervention into women?s lives in the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland. It begins its study with the opening of Stormont, the northern parliament, ... -
Permanent revolutionaries : the I.R.B. and the Land War in Skull, Co.Cork, 1879-82
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis examines the Irish Republican Brotherhood at a grassroots level and its involvement in the Irish National Land League and the Land War, 1879-82 in Co. Cork with an emphasis on the grassroots organisers in West ... -
Personal financial management in early eighteenth-century Ireland: practices, participants and outcomes
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)This thesis examines the modalities, practices, and options available to, the attitudes towards, and the potential results achievable by personal financial managers in Ireland in the early decades of the eighteenth century.The ... -
Philip I of France (1060-1108) and the development of royal authority
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)This thesis was an attempt to underline the positive aspects of the contribution of Philip I of France (1060-1108) to the development of the Capetian monarchy of France. His reign has been little studied in any language. ... -
The place of Ireland in the development of American global thought in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis is a study of a particular dimension of American political and historical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period American writers and intellectuals acknowledged, ... -
Political activity of the Irish in Britain, 1919-1925
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2008)The aim of this thesis is to survey the political activity of the Irish in Britain in the years 1919-1925. With the victory of Sinn Fein at the General Election in December 1918 and the subsequent establishment of Dail ... -
Power and authority : a comparative study of martial law in early Stuart Ireland, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The central aim of this thesis is to provide a comparative assessment of the operation of martial law in Ireland, by demonstrating the dominance of government by the military interest, the impact of martial ideology and ... -
Protestant dissent and controversy in Ireland, 1660-1711
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Protestant Ireland and the English Parliament, 1641-1647
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1996)This thesis considers the relations between the Protestants of Ireland and the Long Parliament from the outbreak of the 1641 Rising until mid -1647. It aims to show that Ireland was a central concern of Parliament's ... -
`Punishment and Service to the Injured State' - Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation, 1840-1852
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The objective of this thesis is to present a comprehensive exploration of the Irish convict transportation system in the period 1840 to 1852. In a two strand approach this subject is examined from the perspective of the ... -
Pursuing the desire for cattle or attacking the followers of heresy: A numerical analysis of different factors influencing strategies adopted in large group interactions involving nomads or holy war
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis is a numerical analysis of factors which have influenced the strategies adopted in a sample of 120 large group interactions involving nomads or holy war in the period 1250 BCE to 1850 CE in parts of Afro-Eurasia. ... -
A Radical Memory: Martyrdom and Commemoration in Nineteenth-Century British Popular Radicalism
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis investigates the development and establishment of a distinctive commemorative culture by British popular radicalism, and in particular by Chartism, in the nineteenth century. At the intersection of memory ... -
A Rage Without a Home: toryism in Restoration Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2018)The present work is a study of toryism and rappareeism, especially with regards to their place in public discourse, between the years 1660 and 1695, encompassing Restoration Ireland, the War of the Two Kings and the initial ... -
Rationality and war : the crisis of the French Republican intellectual project, 1900-1920
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Re-discovery: the essence of the Reformation
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Recruiting in Ireland for the American Civil War
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Reimaging Heroes and Villains: Contested and Changing Representations of the Republican Historical Figures in Mainland China
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis examines the diverse and contested representations of Republican historical figures in mainland China. This research project was designed to discuss public history in mainland China, particularly how histories ... -
Religious revolution and social crisis in southwest Scotland and Ulster, 1687-1714
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis compares the experiences of the presbyterians of the west and southwest of Scotland and of the Irish province of Ulster during the twenty-five years following the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1689-90. This was not ...