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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Kildare"”.
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KILDARE COUNTY COUNCIL, 1899-1926
This thesis is a study ofKildare County Council from its inception in 1899. It begins with an outline of the Kildare County Grand Jury which preceded the county council as the body responsible for administering local government in the county. A comparison is made between the social, economic and …
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Politics and rebellion in County Kildare 1790-1803
… political developments and rebellion in County Kildare during the turbulent period from 1790 to 1803. Kildare is of interest not only because it produced a large-scale rebellion in 1798 but because of its dominant liberal establishment. The most powerful figure in the county, William Robert …
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The Earl of Kildare An Opera in 3 Acts (2 Vols)
The Earl of Kildare is an opera composed in three acts based on the 1534 rebellion against English rule in Ireland of Thomas FitzGerald, the 10th Earl of Kildare, also known as Tomás an Síoda, or Silken Thomas. It is scored for a sixteen-piece orchestra, and has a cast of ten singers. The libretto …
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The Minches of Athy, County Kildare: A Catholic Middle-Class Family in the Nineteenth Century
One of the recurring themes in the history and literature of Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has been the decline of the landlord class. Until the last quarter of the nineteenth century this group, although not quite in the ascendant, was still referred to as the …
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Characterisation and Spatial Variability of the Magnetic and Electrical Resistivity Geophysical Properties of the Soils of Counties Kildare and Wicklow, Eastern Ireland.
… were obtained for the soils of Co. Kildare and Co. Wicklow, eastern Ireland (an area of 3688 km2). Spatially, the magnetic susceptibility shows a general pattern of values increasing from the northwest to the southeast over a two orders of magnitude range. A northeast trending broad …
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Landscapes of Power The Social Network of the Power Elite in mid-Victorian Ireland Case Study of Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown, Co Kildare
The focus of this thesis will have at its core an individual and a house around which the social networking of the ascendancy will pivot. Thomas Conolly and Castletown will act as a catalyst to the control of hegemonic power of the ascendancy class in the second half of the nineteenth century. The …
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Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, and his Landed Estates 1799-1845
… situated in the barony of South Salt in north Kildare and amounted to 1,060 acres of prime agricultural land. It was located about three miles from Celbridge and ten miles from Naas. The estate bordered the Castletown estate of the Connolly family and the Straffan House estate owned by Arthur …
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The Clongorey Evictions
… on the margins of the 'Bog of Allen' in County Kildare in the late 1800s. The aim of this thesis is to rectify this by telling the story and asking a number of questions of these events and examining the effect, the evictions had on the community in Clongorey. The O' Kelly estate consisted of …
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The search for San Ffraid.
… if any, of San Ffraid, St Brigid of Kildare, and St Birgitta of Sweden; the likelihood of one San Ffraid in the south and another in the north; and the inclusion of the goddess Brigid in the portrait of San Ffraid.
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Denis Kilbride M.P. 1848-1924
… south Kerry, north Galway and south Kildare for a period of thirty-one years. As a result of the prolonged depression in agriculture, KilBride, an educated and politically active gentlemen tenant farmer with his own subtenants and labourers, in an era of rising expectations, was to …
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The Redecoration and Alteration of Castletown House By Lady Louisa Conolly 1759-76
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare is the largest and finest palladian1 country house in Ireland. Its building in 1722 marked the beginning of the palladian invasion of Ireland and the house is contemporary with the earliest examples of palladianism in England. The elegance and formality …
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Archetypal narratives : toward a theological appreciation of early Celtic hagiography.
… powerfully kenotic episcopal ministry. Brigit’s Kildare becomes the locus of the New Jerusalem, City of Refuge and Peaceable Kingdom
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The Impact of Streaming on Post-Primary Students' Attitudes to Teachers, Motivation and Learning
… nine Third Year Secondary Boys, living in County Kildare. Our findings did not support current research, with regard to bottom pupils being less positive towards teachers and school than their upper stream counterparts. Indeed, they show a distinct willingness to learn, and display a positiveness …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… and paired with faces from Ballinderry, Co. Kildare and a sample of males from Gallen Priory, Co. Offaly. The final layer of examination culminates with the application of response and respons-ibility to the post-medieval Irish landscape with facial reconstructions from the prison on Spike …
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An Irish apostle: articulating and actualising apostolicity in the early Irish church
… demonstrations of the continuing connection that Kildare and Armagh had to their patron saints and their authority. It examines the importance of this connection for concepts of ecclesiastical organisation, teaching authority and episcopal succession against the backdrop of the seventh-century …
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I tell myself : performing identity in a digital public sphere
This thesis examines new and expanding forms of personal storytelling in digital culture, asking whether they are contributing to a meaningful evolution of the public sphere, or merely fostering a culture of narcissism, as some charge. Theories from fields ranging from performance studies, …
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A Primary Teacher’s Exploration of the Effects of Formative Assessment on Teaching and Learning
… a co-educational, Catholic Primary School in Co. Kildare. The research participants were the children in the researcher’s Third Class. Ten target pupils were selected using a random, stratified sampling method for the duration of the study. The methodology employed was a mixed-methods qualitative …
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A Geography of Fear of Crime in Maynooth
… space in the university town of Maynooth, Co. Kildare. In the four years I have attended the college there have been numerous reports of attacks on female students on college grounds and in the town. At the time these reports had the effect of curtailing the movements of female students around …
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A Mixed Method Exploration of the Challenges to Inclusive and Progressive Education for Students with Dyslexia in the West of Ireland.
… post primary focus. Career Paths located in Co. Kildare is the only further education college in the country which offers a dyslexia specific training programme for students. Further dyslexia specific training programmes should be introduced to support students in the west of Ireland. Adult …
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Perceptions of ringforts in pre-modern Ireland
… it was decided to focus on two baronies in Co. Kildare, as these had a long history of arable farming and, furthermore, were located near the main urban centre of the country, Dublin. In this situation, the application of the hypothesis developed in Co. Cork should show an increased rate of …