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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Trinity College"”.
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Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432
Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by …
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Newman's Love of Nature as an Index of His Spirituality
… influence of Calvinism. At sixteen, he entered Trinity College, Oxford, and later was elected to a Fellowship of Oriel, the highest honor his University could bestow upon him. He was a brilliant ‘student, but quiet and shy, making few friends. He took Orders in the Church of England, in 1824; he …
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Electronic Properties of Tailored 2D Materials for Chemical Sensor Applications
… function, developed by our collaborators in Trinity College Dublin, in which the unknown target concentration of impurities can be determined. Our goal was to test the pros and cons of the misfit function method, as well as its generality, and robustness. These were addressed by probing the …
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Donogh O’Malley And The FreePost Primary Education Scheme
… considered reports on Regional Technical Colleges and the Commission on Higher Education, established the Ryan Tribunal on Teacher Salaries and controversially proposed a merger between University College, Dublin and Trinity College, Dublin. He is best known as the Minister for Education …
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Objects As Polyagents: Tracing The Histories Of The Gweagal Spears
… involving the Gweagal Spears, currently owned by Trinity College and held at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge. This application illustrates the impact that innovations in theory and repatriation cases can have on the perceived role of museums regarding object return, …
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Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, and his Landed Estates 1799-1845
… School in Chester and finally graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1790, with a B.A.1 In 1799, on the death of his father, Valentine inherited the title Lord Cloncurry and the Lyons estate which contained the family home. It was situated in the barony of South Salt in north Kildare and …
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Robert Prescott Stewart (1825–1894): A Victorian Musician in Dublin
… His appointment to the music professorship at Trinity College Dublin in 1862 allowed him to expand the music degree requirements and attempt to displace the commonly held view that that music was not a respectable degree for a Victorian gentleman to follow. The music lectures that Stewart …
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Scotland’s Forgotten Theologian: The Life, Theology, and Legacy of Patrick Fairbairn (1805-74)
… and the founding principal of the Free Church College, Glasgow (now Trinity College). In addition to his academic and pastoral duties, he authored eight books, edited and compiled a theological dictionary, and wrote numerous lectures and pamphlets. In the later years of his life, Fairbairn was …
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Looking with Narcissus: Oscar Wilde’s Reception of the Dying God
… epigram, which supposedly originated with his Trinity College Dublin tutor, John Pentland Mahaffy, to the dissolution of authority both inside and outside Classics during the second half of the nineteenth century. Chapter 1 explores the broadly similar critical sentiments in Wilde’s press …
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A study of associational culture and the development of Irish nationalism, 1780-1830, with the construction of a software information environment
… A case study on the Historical Society of Trinity College reveal the educational, social and political roles societies play and the important social networks and communities they can nurture and support. Concluding remarks reveal a cultural shift in Irish society as post-Union politics and …
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Thomas Davis's education policies: theory and practice
… His contribution to the debate on the Queens Colleges bill, 1845, is explored including his public disagreement with Daniel O'Connell on the principle of multi-denominational education. This work also examines his policies on learning methodologies and teaching methods. It provides details of …
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Assessing Improvisation in Graded Music Examinations: Conflicting Practices and Perceptions
… Board of the Royal Schools of Music (ABRSM) and Trinity College London (TCL), have added options to assess improvisation within their instrumental curricula without clearly defining what they mean by ‘improvisation’ or how they assess it. This thesis argues that the lack of consistent definitions …
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Rev. Canon James Owen Hannay, X.A. D. Litt. 'George A. Birmingham* An Irishman looks at his world
… are recorded in the catalogue of his papers in Trinity College, Dublin, and this is by no means complete, Hannay was also well known as a lecturer and public speaker. The aim of this study is to examine historically Hannay's experiences while living in Ireland, and his account of those …
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"Something for the Dignity of Ireland:" Lady Gregory's Portrayal of Deirdre and Maeve in <em>Cuchulain of Muirthemne</em>
… demonstrate, to the world and to the scholars of Trinity College, that ancient Irish literature in the vernacular had grace, dignity, and style. To accomplish this aim, she presents the heroines of these stories as gentler, more decorous, and less promiscuous. Although the tales lose none of their …
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Beyond the ivory tower : in search of a new form for campus-community relationships
… groups, the terms are no longer appropriate as colleges and universities of today are more enlightened, realizing that as fixed and vested institutions, much of their success, and in some cases survival, is dependent on the health of the community in which they reside. The American college …
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Letteratura e identità irlandese nell'opera di Bram Stoker
… (e.g. an address to the Philosophical Society at Trinity College Dublin). Reference is also made to other novels, short stories, articles and private correspondence. All these materials provide more material for the analysis, which means not only collecting more evidence of his Irishness but also …
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An Alternative Theory of Cause and Effect: Nature's Mutual and Synchronous Relationship
… between Shepherd and Whewell, discovered in the Trinity College library during my research, to support my argument. Over the course of four chapters, I develop a novel interpretation and formal reconstruction of Shepherd’s view primarily as it relates to physics presented as an alternative way of …
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An edition of the Conduct of Life based on the six extant manuscripts with full commentary, complementary critical and codicological analysis, notes and introduction
… text, based on the version found in Cambridge, Trinity College MS B. 14. 52, folios 2r-9v , explores, through the accompanying notes, the themes, style and phraseology which not only reflect the influence of earlier English literary and hortatory texts but also represent a living tradition which …
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