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The Dublin Library Society and its founding members: associational activity and cultural patriotism in late-eighteenth-century Dublin.
In late-eighteenth-century Dublin, options were limited for an expanding reading public who wished to consult quality printed works. During this period of the Anglican Ascendancy, membership to institutional libraries or participation in associational activities was largely limited to elites and …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… course and the effects of the Darwin debate in Dublin during the first fifty years after the landmark publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of species in 1859. Darwin’s hypothesis that species evolved gradually over time by a process of natural selection was so vastly contrary to the popular …
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The Aestheticisation of Pub Culture in Dublin
… will examine some of the newly organised pubs in Dublin. Firstly, this thesis will discuss the basis for this research project and outline some examples on which it is born. It will outline the content of the following topics and give a brief overview of each topic. Rather than following the usual …
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The Protestant Orphan Society, Dublin, 1828-1928
… earliest Protestant Orphan Society, founded in Dublin in 1828. The geographical scope of the project is not solely confined to Dublin as reference is also made to Protestant orphan societies located in Monaghan, Cork, Meath, Westmeath, Carlow, Mayo, Limerick and Tipperary. These later societies …
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Everyday Life, Debt and Death in North Dublin
… the key example of Priory Hall in Donaghmeade, Dublin 13. On Friday, 14 October 2011 Dublin City Council asked the High Court to evacuate the 249 residents of Priory Hall as it was declared a fire hazard due to poor building standards. My research considers how a group of some eighty-five …
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Paradigms of Irishness for Young People in Dublin
The history of Ireland highlights how Irish identity has proved to be both an emotive and divisive force in Irish society. Events in both pre and post-independent Ireland point out how central Irishness has been within Irish society and also highlights how a sense of national identity has often …
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The Irish Volunteers in north Co. Dublin, 1913-17
… movement under Eoin MacNeill, in north County Dublin, in the period 1913 to 1917. Within that primary aim it was envisaged that the development of the Skerries Irish Volunteer company would become apparent, but within its proper context in the wider movement in north County Dublin and beyond. …
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The Elderly in Dublin, Ireland: A Cultural Gerontological Perspective.
This thesis contains a detailed study of the current gerontological theories and literature. This data are re-examined from an anthropological point of view. The object of this exercise is to increase the validity of the findings by the addition of the ‘cultural element’ , something which has been …
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Community Development in Dublin. Political Subjectivity and State Cooption.
… the aegis of “Community Development” (CD), the Dublin inner city subaltern community struggles raised implicit and explicit political questions which differed substantially from those previously raised by the ‘official’ republican and socialist left. These questions concerned the lives of …
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Land surveying in eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Dublin
… documents the profession of land surveying in Dublin, Ireland, during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries until 1810. It aims to present the many aspects of land surveying in Dublin during this period. As such, it is the history of a skilled, varied and complex craft practiced by both …
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Principle paradigms: revisiting the Dublin Core 1:1 Principle
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Faltering Care: Homeless Mothers’ Experiences of Caregiving in Dublin
… the caregiving efforts of a group of mothers in Dublin who were homeless, struggling with addiction, and separated from their children. It offers an ethnographic account of their attempts to reknit their relationships with their distant children by extending care, even as these caregiving efforts …
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Three Miles Apart ... and Beyond: School Inequalities in Dublin 15
… of international students. Both located in Dublin 15, the area with the highest percentage of migrants in Ireland, and located only three miles apart from each other, the two schools illustrate the heterogeneity of wealth distribution within the district: Oaktree College is located within a …
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The Role of Women in Music in Nineteenth-Century Dublin
… Europe, and Ireland was no exception. In Dublin, women went from participating in the city's musical culture as performers to participating as teachers, composers, organisers, performers and writers. In the first half of the century, private music teachers such as Mrs Allen represented …
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Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin
… Stewart (1825–1894) was held in high regard by Dublin’s musical public and was seen as the ‘figurehead’ of music in Ireland by his English contemporaries. His career as an organist of exceptional talent saw a lengthy association with the cathedrals of Christ Church and St Patrick’s. As a …
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Imagining Irelands: Migration, Media, and Locality in Modern Day Dublin
… the lives of youths living in the urban greater Dublin metropolitan area in the Republic of Ireland. By many accounts, there has been a Gaeilge renaissance underway in recent times. The number of Gaeilge-medium primary and secondary schools (Gaelscoileanna) has grown throughout the 1990s and into …
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Protest from below: Activists experience of the student protest Dublin, 2010
This thesis was written as a way of advancing our knowledge of how activists experience a protest event and protest policing. The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) protest in 2010, against the raising of registration fees and the cutting of the maintenance grant ended in violence, and clashes …
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The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland 1850 -1890
… presence in the lives of the public and, as the Dublin Medical Press indicates, it bolstered the perception of the medical practitioner as moral guardian of society in general. This thesis is not a study of the medical profession in Ireland in the nineteenth century. Though the structures and the …
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The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Dublin, 1926-1975
… Society of St Vincent de Paul in the diocese of Dublin from 1926 to 1975. It looks at how the Society expanded its range of services over this period, despite the change from conditions of great hardship in the 1920s to relative prosperity by the 1970s. As a lay Catholic organisation, whose …
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Monitoring and modelling the long-term performance of Dublin Port Tunnel
Dublin Port Tunnel, the biggest urban road tunnel in Ireland, functions as a critical part of an arterial road network between Dublin Port and the rest of Dublin city. Since its opening in 2006, the tunnel has been observed with progressively developing deteriorations; onsite observations and …
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