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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Irish History"”.
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Public Service and Politics: the BBC's Irish history programmes prior to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland
… examines how the BBC approached and presented Irish history in the years leading up to and during the Troubles in Northern Ireland. It does so by examining three major Irish history projects broadcast between 1965 and 1981. By combining the BBC’s institutional history, Irish historiography, and …
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Colonel Dan Bryan and the evolution of Irish Military Intelligence, 1919 -1945.
In the context of contemporary Irish History Colonel Dan Bryan has played a significant, but controversial role in a period which has been well documented but where he has largely gone unnoticed. The aim of this thesis is twofold; to examine the life and career of Colonel Dan Bryan and in the …
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The Volunteers 1778-1793: Iconography and Identity
… through the medium of artefacts relating to Irish Volunteer companies. This work, therefore, hopes to utilise previously untapped sources in an attempt to gain fresh insights into a well explored area of Irish history.
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Ladies of the Country House: Irish Aristocratic Women, 1870-1918
… War. The role of aristocratic women and the Irish country house has been an overlooked aspect of Irish history with the result that few published works exist on the topic. By means of a case study, aristocratic women step forth from the dusty letters and diaries of family archives lending …
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Women and trade unions in Ireland, c. 1860-1937: class, gender and society
… in the task of writing women back into the history of Irish trade unionism. The date range is c.1860 to 1937, but the main concentration is on the period from 1880 to 1937. The first part considers attitudes voiced towards women’s involvement in paid work and efforts to organise female …
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John O'Mahony: Revolutionary and Scholar (1815-1877)
… for the period during which it was a force in Irish politics in America. O’Mahony tendered his resignation as Fenian head centre some days before his death in February 1877. O’Mahony is, perhaps, the most surprisingly overlooked figure o f mid/late nineteenth century Irish history. Much has …
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Background to the murder of Major Denis Mahon, Strokestown Park, County Roscommon on 2 November, 1847.
… within the family through turbulent periods of Irish history. In 1800, Maurice Mahon was bestowed with the title of first Baron Hartland of Strokestown. This peerage was a further reward by the British crown for voting for the Act of Union. However, the prestigious title became extinct in 1845 …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… question was an extremely interesting phase in Irish history which saw much intellectual and ideological change. Dublin, at the centre of this, saw many important developments such as the rise of the Republican, Home Rule and Unionist movements. It also saw the Gaelic revival take place and …
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A 17th century “real estate company“ : The 1649 officers and the Irish land settlements, 1641-1631.
… identifiable group through that cauldron of Irish history known as the Cromwellian and Restoration land settlements. The group in question are the 1849 officers who, as will be seen in Chapters four and five, were especially pro ? settlement and explanation. This particular study is the first …
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"Common Plowmen's Children": The Frontiers of Ulster Catholicism, c.1680-c.1830
… violence are viewed as inherent in Ulster and Irish history generally, this dissertation explores the social and cultural connections between Ulster Catholics and Anglo-Scot Protestant settlers, and the social and cultural world of Ulster Catholics and Catholic converts. By examining several …
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Looking through the Cracked Looking Glass: Masculinity, Gaelic Sports and Revolutionary Thought in Ireland, 1884-1920
<p>This thesis will observe Foucauldian trends in Irish revolutionary history. Michel Foucault is a French social theorist who discerned the power dynamic in specific relationships. Foucault studied specific institutions such as prisons and insane asylums to view the relationship of power that …
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… political anthropology to an interpretation of Irish history during the revolutionary period from 1916 to 1927, and more particularly to an appraisal of the central figure of Eamon deValera. The hypothesis suggests that a characteristic pattern of action, an ideal-type character of leadership …
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The Need for Reform: Exploring Historical and Cultural Representations of Identity and Equality in Irish National Schools
<p>This study analyzes the assertion that Irish National Schools continue to be among the most segregated in Europe. The analysis examines the effects of key historical events in Irish history that led to the development of a nationalist government and the emergence of a perceived Irish cultural …
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From Irish Wig Rebel to Bourbon Diplomat: The Life and Career of Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738)
… of Nathaniel Hooke (1664-1738). Born to an Anglo-Irish Protestant family in Dublin, he became involved with Whig radicals opposed to Charles II and James II in 1680s England. Hooke was the only Irish participant in Monmouth's rebellion in 1685. After experiencing defeat and exile he surrendered …
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A gift of stone
… commentary written in response to a key event in Irish history, the Great Irish Famine. The novel for this practice-based PhD in Creative Writing imagines two lives – that of a young Irishwoman and her family caught up in the Famine in the 1840s and a contemporary Canadian woman who returns to …
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In His Majesty’s Service: the career of Captain Francisco de Cuéllar in the armed forces of the Spanish Monarchy (1578-1606)
… the late sixteenth century. He is known to Irish history through a remarkable account (Carta) that he composed about his experiences in Ireland and Scotland following shipwreck on the Sligo coast in September 1588. While Cuéllar and his Carta became synonymous with the story of the Spanish …
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Volunteer Women: Militarized Femininity in the 1916 Easter Rising
… are often women who bucked conservative Irish society’s notions of femininity and chose to actively participate in combat, which has led to a skewed narrative that favors their contributions over the contributions of other women. Historians and scholars favor these narratives because they …
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An Ecclesiastical Institution in Medieval Munster: A Study of Emly to c. 1100
This thesis provides a critical history of Emly, a prominent ecclesiastical institution in central Munster purportedly founded by St Ailbe in the fifth or sixth century. While it is a common refrain that Emly was the most important church in early medieval Munster, it has yet to receive a dedicated …
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The Normalising Power of Marriage Law: An Irish Genealogy, 1945 – 2010
… and government, and his genealogical approach to history, I identify the role played by marriage law in governing the social domain over a discrete period of Irish history. Drawing on this analysis, I suggest that marriage law is part of a dense network of power relationships that cannot be …
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The second coming of Paisley: militant fundamentalism and Ulster politics in a transatlantic context
… of Philosophy, Fall Commencement, 2008. Major: History. The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in a Transatlantic Context. Dissertation directed by Associate Professor Meredith Veldman. Pages in dissertation, 345. Words in Abstract, 277. ABSTRACT On August 1, …
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