Browsing Department of History by Title
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A complicated birth: the Northern Ireland Ministry of Education, 1921-1925
(2023-10-25)The primary purpose of this thesis is to establish the extent to which the development of the nascent Ministry of Education (M.O.E.) in Northern Ireland (N.I.) was defined by its relationship with the Roman Catholic (R.C.) ... -
Contested goals and competing interests: freedpeople's education in North Carolina during the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, 1861-1875
(2020-12-18)This dissertation examines the growth and development of North Carolina’s schools for the freedpeople during the Civil War and Reconstruction era, 1861-1875. In particular, it investigates who taught the freedpeople in ... -
Contested memories: revisiting the battle of Mount Street Bridge, 1916
(British Journal for Military History, 2017)The Battle of Mount Street Bridge, 26 April 1916, was the most successful rebel military engagement of the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. Though it accounted for something in the region of half of the total British casualties ... -
The creation of an Irish culture in the United States: the Gaelic movement, 1870-1915
(New Hibernia Review, 2001) -
Dating Irish grave slabs: The evidence of the annals
(The Stationery Office, 1995) -
Defying Descartes: Michael Moore (1639-1726) and Aristotelianism in Ireland and France
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000) -
Defying the IRA? Intimidation, coercion, and communities during the Irish Revolution
(Liverpool University Press, 2016) -
The descendants of Brian Boru
(GGI [Genetic Genealogy Ireland], 2015) -
The disbanded Royal Irish Constabulary and forced migration, 1922–31
(2022-04-08)This article concerns the men of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) who were disbanded from the force in 1922 and felt obliged to leave Ireland for Britain. Afforded unique – if not always entirely sufficient – financial ... -
A Displaced Intelligentsia: Aspects of Irish Catholic Thought in Ancien Régime France
(Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001) -
Doing gender history visually
(Irish Academic Press, 2009) -
Early genealogies of West Clare
(Kilrush and District Historical Society, 2015) -
The early history of Knowth
(Royal Irish Academy, 2008) -
The early history of Knowth
(RIA [Royal Irish Academy], 2008) -
Early Irish Church organisation: the case of Drumlease and the Book of Armagh
(Cumann Seanchais Bhreifne [Cavan], 2001) -
Early Irish priests and their areas of ministry AD 700-900
(Columba Press, 2010) -
Early Medieval Irish grave-slabs and their inscriptions
(AASDN [Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland], 1999) -
English and Pictish terms for brooch in an 8th-century Irish law-text
(Taylor & Francis [Routledge], 2004) -
The evolution of Irish veterinary practice, 1700-1950
(2020-12-10)This thesis explores the evolution of Irish veterinary practice, especially with regards to cattle practice, over the course of some 250 years. It begins in the eighteenth-century, with a discussion on prominent farriers ... -
The evolution of Limerick City’s fife and drum band tradition 1840 to 1935
(Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, 2017)This thesis examines the evolution and activity of fife and drum bands in Limerick city between 1840 and 1935. The topic was chosen because of the author’s involvement in St Mary’s Fife and Drum Band since 1976 and because ...