Recently Completed Theses
2016-17
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Bourke, Yan |
The Representation of Muslims in Latin Narrative Accounts of the First Crusade |
PhD |
Ian Robinson |
Brown, David |
The Adventurers for Irish Land, 1642-1670 |
PhD | Micheál Ó Siochrú |
Chambers, Jeffrey |
Conscience and Allegiance: An Investigation into the Controversy over the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy during the Reign of William III and II |
PhD | Robert Armstrong |
Coleman, Brian |
"Every Lord and Gentleman of This Said Land": The Gentry of English Ireland, c.1399-c.1513 |
Sean Duffy |
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Hunter, Sarah |
Health of a nation’ – The Impact of Irish Medical Missionaries Working in Bengal, 1885-1935 |
PhD | David Dickson / Ciaran O'Neill |
Kamen, Scott |
Old Liberals, New Politics: The Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism, 1947-1972 |
PhD | Daniel Geary |
Maxwell, Jane |
Letters as a Source for the History of Women, 1750-1830 |
PhD | David Dickson |
Mc Garrigle, Neasa |
The Establishment of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1938-1947 |
Eunan O'Halpin |
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McQuillan, Stephen |
The Pre-independence Nexus: Irish Radical Subversive Connections, 1900-1923/p> |
PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
Wade, Christina |
Grave Goods as a Medium to Negotiate Power: Violence and Gender in the Burial Rituals of Medieval Ireland |
PhD | Terence Barry |
Yatani, Mai |
Women's Reading Habits in fin de siècle Ireland |
PhD | Ciaran O'Neill / David Dickson |
2015-16
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Bleier, Roman |
A Digital Edition of St Patrick's Writings |
PhD | Sean Duffy |
Braghi, Gianmarco |
Ambiguities and Contrasts among Early Huguenots: Politics and Religion in Sixteenth-Century France |
Graeme Murdock |
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Farrell, Gerard |
The Mere Irish and the Colonisation of Ulster, c.1570-1641 |
PhD | Micheál Ó Siochrú |
Fleming-Farrell, Dara |
Three-Dimensional Imaging and the Study of Skeletal Trauma |
PhD | Terence Barry |
Gorman, Stuart |
The Technical Development of Bows and Crossbows in Later Medieval Europe |
PhD | Terence Barry |
Gorvin, Robert |
French Anglicans: Huguenot Exiles and Identities in Britain and Ireland, c.1640-1680 |
PhD | Graeme Murdock |
Hunnewell, Leah |
For Class, Nation, Race or God? A Transatlantic History of Irish Socialism, 1889-1917 |
PhD | Anne Dolan |
McNamee, Brian |
Ideas of Kingship during the Pontificate of Gregory VII |
Ph.D |
Ian Robinson |
Quinn, Joseph |
Irish Personnel in the British Armed Forces during the Second World War |
PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
Sheridan, James |
The Irish Hydra: English Policy in Gaelic Ulster, 1567-76 |
PhD | Ciaran Brady |
Walker, Patricia |
Virtue and Vice: Murder and Execution Pamphlets in Elizabethan and Jacobean England |
PhD | Graeme Murdock |
Walsh, Fionnuala |
The Impact of the Great War on Women in Ireland, 1914-1919 |
PhD | David Fitzpatrick |
Brophy, Kate |
A way for all to see a way to heaven': Domestic Perspectives on Irish Catholic Missionary Endeavour |
PhD | Anne Dolan |
| Fitzpatrick, Colin | The Commodities Trade in the Irish Sea Zone, c.1350-1550 | PhD | David Ditchburn |
| McNamee, Brian | Ideas of Kingship During the Pontificate of Gregory VII | PhD | Ian Robinson |
2014-15
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blake Knox, Jamie | 'Facts or Fiction': The Church of Ireland' s Writing of Irish Church History 1838-1870 |
PhD | Ciaran Brady |
| Donohue, Alan | Hitler as Military Commander: From Blau to Edelweiss, January-November 1942 | PhD | Alan Kramer |
| Dowdall, Alex | Communities under Fire: Civilians on the Western Front, 1914-1918 | PhD | John Horne |
| Frank, Sarah | Colonial Prisoners of War and Vichy France: Experience and Politics | PhD | John Horne |
| Gallagher, Caoimhe | Divided Neutrality 1914-1918: The Impact of the First World War on Swiss Francophone and Swiss Germanophone Opinion | PhD | John Horne |
| Geange, Kate | Lieutenant-general Arthur Dillon: Jacobite at the Regency Court, 1715-1725 | PhD | Robert Armstrong |
| Hegarty, Gianna | The development of Irish refugee policy through the prism of the state’s foreign policy objectives, 1935-1973 | PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
| Johnston-Kehoe, John | Women in Policing in Ireland, 1915-78 - with particular reference to the Royal Irish Constabulary, Dublin Metropolitan Police, and An Garda Siochana | PhD | Anne Dolan / Eunan O'Halpin |
| Kelly, Axel | Charting the Development of Crusading Ideology: An Examination of Pre- and Proto-crusade Source Material | PhD | Ian Robinson |
| McInerney, Anne Marie | Internment of the anti-treaty IRA in the free state 1922-1924 | PhD | Anne Dolan |
| Milhench, Rory | The Domestic and International Geopolitics of Ulster Loyalism, 1972-1985 | PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
| Morrissey, Conor | Protestant Nationalists in Ireland, 1900-1923 | PhD | David Fitzpatrick |
| Murtagh, Timothy | Hibernian Sans-Culottes: Dublin's Journeymen and Radical Politics, 1778-1803 | PhD | David Dickson |
| Parker, Grady | A Great and Sudden Change’: Lord Castlereagh, Economic Reform, and the Transformation of Post-Napoleonic Politica, 1815-1822 | PhD | Patrick Geoghegan |
| Peters, Cherie | Legal Position and Living Conditions of Peasants and Commoners in Early Medieval Ireland, c.680-c.1170 | PhD | Sean Duffy / Katherine Simms |
| Sappington, Anne | Dissecting the Monstrous Body Politic: Political Rhetoric and Legal Language in the Time of Calvin’s Case | PhD | Graeme Murdock |
| Veale, Ailish Ellen | Spiritual Medicine: Irish Medical Missionaries in Africa, 1937-1970 | PhD | Catherine Lawless / David Dickson |
| Walsh, Eimhin | The Intellectual Development of Saint Peter Damian (c.1007-1072) | PhD | Ian Robinson |
| Whelan, Caoimhe | Translating Cambrensis: The Late Medieval History of Giraldus' "English Conquest of Ireland" | PhD | Sean Duffy |
2013-14
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Brady, Sean |
Sicily at War - The Province of Catania and the experience of the First World War, 1914-1922 |
PhD |
John Horne |
Campbell, Niamh |
Defend-Protect-Support: The Evolution of Irish Military Culture 1956-1978 |
PhD |
Eunan O'Halpin |
Hughes, Brian |
Defying the IRA: intimidation, coercion and communities in Ireland, 1917-1922 |
PhD |
Anne Dolan |
McArdle, Aran |
Tories, Rapparees and Renegades 1608-1715; the dispossessed gentlemen of early modern Ireland |
PhD |
Micheal O Siochru |
McGrath, Felim |
The Normans and Apulia in the Eleventh Century |
PhD |
Ian Robinson |
Neyts, Ciska |
Copying the Continent: the Irish and the military revolution (1601-1649) |
PhD |
Jane Ohlmeyer |
Ni Dhulchaointigh, Giulia |
Irish People in London 1900-14 |
PhD |
Anne Dolan |
O'Reilly, Lorraine |
The Shirley Estate 1814-1906: The development and demise of a landed estate in County Monaghan |
PhD |
David Dickson |
O'Reilly, Sean |
Completing the Union: The Politics Of Implementation In Ireland, 1801-1815 |
PhD |
Patrick Geoghegan |
Power, Alan William |
Irish Economic Policy and Economic Crisis, 1973-1979 |
PhD |
Eunan O'Halpin |
Power, Catherine Anne |
A History of the Brigidine Sisters in Ireland and Australia 1807-1907 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
Quentin, Claire Marie |
A comparative analysis of the activities, agendas and accomplishments of the Irish Women Graduates' Association and the German Federation of University Women, 1948/49-1970 |
PhD |
Alan Kramer / Maryann Valiulis |
Ryan, Maeve Sarah |
The human consequences of slave trade abolition: Examining post-intervention policy and practice through the case study of the Liberated African Department and the administration of liberated Africans at Sierra Leone, 1803-1863 |
PhD |
Patrick Geoghegan |
Rynne, Francis |
Permanent Revolutionaries: The IRB and the Land War in Skull |
PhD |
William Vaughan |
Steinbach, Daniel |
Colonials in Conflict: Europeans in British and German East Africa and the First World War |
PhD |
Alan Kramer |
Yukimura, Kayoko |
The impact on Ireland of French maritime warfare, 1692-1713 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
2012-13
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Carroll, Stephen |
Reform government and the politics of protest in early seventeenth-century Ireland |
PhD |
Robert Armstrong |
Dungan, Myles |
Enforcing silence: United Ireland, the Irish nationalist press and British governance, 1881-1891 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
Evans, David |
'Natural outpost to Britain's defences': a profile of the Irish Treaty Ports 1914-45 |
PhD |
Anne Dolan |
Higgins Ni Chinneide, Caitlin |
The Political Influence of the Cromwellian Army in Ireland, 1649-59 |
PhD |
Micheál Ó Siochrú |
Kelleher, Connie |
The Confederacy of Pirates in Early Seventeenth-Century Southwest Ireland: Trade Plunder and Settlement - a historical and archaeological study |
PhD |
Jane Ohlmeyer |
McAlister, Victoria |
Tower houses and the maritime economy ca. 1400-1641: a County Down case study |
PhD |
Terence Barry |
McCann, Conor |
The Life and Writings of Odo of Deuil, Abbot of St Denis |
PhD |
Ian Robinson |
Power, Brendan |
Youth Movements and Ireland, 1888 - 1918 |
PhD |
David Fitzpatrick |
Reid, David |
The Tithe War in Ireland, 1830–1838 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
Robson, Fergus |
Conscription, Community and Counter-Revolution, the case of the Aveyron 1780-1820 |
PhD |
Joseph Clarke |
Smyth, Alan |
The social and economic impact of the Williamite war on Ireland, 1689 - 91 |
PhD |
David Dickson / Robert Armstrong |
Stafford, Mary |
The Senate and the Civil War 1922-1925: Prologue, Duration and Protracted Aftermath |
PhD |
Eunan O'Halpin |
2011-12
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Albano, Diego |
Funeral Customs in Nineteenth Century Ireland |
PhD |
Joseph Clarke |
Arbuthnot, Emma |
The Ringwork Castles of Medieval Leinster and Meath |
PhD |
Terence Barry |
Arndt, Sarah Crider |
The Book Trade and Print Culture: A Comparative Analysis of Belfast and Baltimore 1760-1825 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
Booker, Anne |
Gaelisation and identity in the “four obedientshires” of Ireland 1399-1543 |
PhD |
Sean Duffy |
Dukova, Anastasia |
Crime and Policing in Dublin, Brisbane and London, c.1850-1900 |
PhD |
David Dickson |
Hand, Stephen |
A critical commentary and transcription of a contemporary English language manuscript of David Rothe’s Analecta Scra et Mira (1616) |
MLitt |
Jane Ohlmeyer |
Hora, Kevin |
Official propaganda in the Irish Free State |
PhD |
David Fitzpatrick |
Irish, Tomas |
Universities and the Great War: Britain, France and the United States of America, 1914-1931 |
PhD |
John Horne |
Kenna, Shane |
The philosophy of the bomb: The Fenian dynamite campaign |
PhD |
Anne Dolan |
McConway, Philip |
The Irish Civil War in the South Midlands, 1922-23 |
PhD |
Anne Dolan / Eunan O'Halpin |
Morrison, Eve |
Identity, Allegiance, War and Remembrance: The Bureau of Military History and the Irish Revolution |
PhD |
David Fitzpatrick |
O'Flynn, Eoin |
The organisation and operation of Uí Néill kingship in the Irish midlands: Clann Cholmáin c.550-916 |
PhD |
Mary Simms |
O'Keeffe, Grace |
The hospital of St John the Baptist, Dublin c. 1188-1939: a historical and prosoprographical analysis |
PhD |
Sean Duffy |
Stover, Justin Dolan |
A revolution within: loyalty, treason and the Irish Revolution, 1913-21 |
PhD |
Anne Dolan / Eunan O'Halpin |
Wall, Rebecca |
The origins of town life in Ireland: Spatial integration and urbanization in the Kingdom of Déisi, 700-1100 |
PhD |
Terence Barry |
2010-11
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnahan, Joshua | Philip Melanchthon: The 'useful reformer' and the English reformation | M.Litt | Graeme Murdock |
| Coyle, Ronan | Famine Evictions | PhD | William Vaughan |
| Flynn, Colin | Crusader Artillery, 1097-1148: Typology, Terminology and Character | PhD | Ian Robinson |
| Foley, Ann | The Royal Manors of Dublin | PhD | Sean Duffy |
| Harris, Thomas | The Life of William Bulfin, 1863-1910 | PhD | William Vaughan |
| Milne, Ida | The 1918-19 influenza pandemic in Ireland: - a Leinster perspective | PhD | David Dickson |
| Mulqueen, John | Irish republicanism and the Cold War: Western geo-political state perspectives on crises in Ireland, 1962-1976 | PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
| Ni Chleirigh, Lean Seoine | The crusaders and the enemies: the Latin terminology of group identity in the chronicles of the First Crusade | PhD | Ian Robinson |
| Ni Chonaill, Bronagh | The Place of the Child in Medieval Irish and Welsh law | PhD | Katherine Simms |
| Noonan, Gerard | Irish physical force Republicanism in Britain, 1919-23 | PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
| O'Fathartaigh, Michael | The government's creameries: a history of the dairy disposal company, 1927-1978 | PhD | Eunan O'Halpin |
| Shine, Linda | Interactions between the Gaelic-Irish and the Anglo-Normans: the Settlement Evidence in the Baronies of Iverk, County Kilkenny and Clanmahon, County Cavan in the high and later medieval periods | PhD | Terence Barry |
2009-10
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Buldorini, Chiara | Drogheda as a case-study of an Anglo-Norman Town Foundation, 1188-1412 | PhD | MKS |
| Darcy, Eamon | Politics, Pogroms and Print: the 1641 Depositions and Contemporary Print Culture | Ph.D | JO |
| Hanaphy, Stephen | The Classical Erudition of Peter of Blois | PhD | ISR |
| McCabe, Hannah | The Castle in the Social and Geographical Landscape of Medieval Cumbria c.1066-1300 | PhD | TB |
| Middleton, Kathleen | Migration and Cultural Identity in Ulster and Southwest Scotland, 1689-1715 | PhD | RA |
| Murray, Sylvester | The state and the sea fisheries of the south and west coasts of Ireland, 1900-1967 | M.Litt | DD |
| Newberry, Samantha | Interrogations, Ill-Treatment and Intelligence: Northern Ireland 1970-1974 | PhD | EOH |
| Ryan, Vanessa | The archaeology of medieval rural ecclesiastical settlement in the Barony of Lower Dundalk, County Louth | PhD | TB |
| Smyth, Jennifer | The Pamphlets of the Early Reformation Preacher, Jacob Strauss | PhD | HRH |
| Ther, Vanessa | Constructs of War: Evaluation and Representation of the First World War in the Republican Press in Weimar Germany, 1918-1920 | PhD | AK |
| Thompson, Kelly | Donegal and Partition, 1912-1926 | M.Litt | DF |
| Veach, Colin | The de Lacy family in England, Ireland and Normandy, c.1160-1241 | PhD | SD |
| Wallace, Ciaran | Dublin Local Government and Politics, 1898-1922 | PhD | DF |
2008-09
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell, Ian | John Lynch's Science of Truth: Royalism, Jurisprudence and Late-Renaissance in Seventeenth Century Ireland | PhD | JO |
| Collins, Mary | An Examination of Irish Institutions from their foundation to the present | MLitt | WV |
| Griffith, Lisa-Marie | Social Mobility and the Merchants of Dublin, 1760-1790 | PhD | PG |
| Harding, Timothy | History of Correspondence Chess in Britain and Ireland | PhD | WV |
| Lennon, Alison | Anglo-Norman castles and religious foundations in counties Louth and Down: A Comparison with examples in England and Wales | PhD | TB |
| O'Brien, Jennifer | Irish Republican Propaganda and Organisation in Germany, 1919-1923 | PhD | DF |
| O'Callaghan, Daniel | Johannes Reuchlin and his seventeenth century publication: Augenspiegel | MLitt | HRH |
| O'Sullivan, Kevin | Irish Foreign Policy and sub-Saharan Africa, 1955-75 | PhD | DD |
| Rigney, Peter | The Operation of the Great Southern Railway | PhD | EOH |
| Treacy, Matthew | The Irish Republican Movement, 1962-1969 | Ph.D | EOH |
2007-08
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archbold, Johanna | Irish Periodicals in their Atlantic Context, 1770-1830: the Monthly and Quarterly Magazines of Dublin, Edinburgh and Philadelphia | PhD | DD |
| Barrett, Rachel | Life in the Workhouses of Co. Meath, 1838-1850' | MLitt | WV |
| Carroll, Lydia | More than a Man's Part: Sir Charles Alexander Cameron: Public Analyst and Medical Officer of Health for Dublin, 1862-1921 | PhD | DD |
| Finucane, Jane | To remain unaltered in the courage you have inherited from your ancestors: Magdaburg under Siege, 1547-1631 | PhD | HRH |
| Harrison, Stephen | Furnished Insular Scandinavian Burial: Landscape and Status in the Early Viking Age | PhD | TB |
| Inoue, Keiko | Political Activity of the Irish in Britain, 1919-1925 | PhD | DF |
| Jackson, Brian | The Role and Influence of the Irish Missions of the Society of Jesus the Implementation of a Counter-Reformation among the Old English in Ireland, 1542-1633 | PhD | CB |
| McCoy, Charlene | War and Revolution: County Fermanagh and its Borders, c.1640-c.1666 | PhD | JO |
| Murphy, Elaine | No affair before us of greater concern: The War at Sea in Ireland, 1641-1649 | PhD | JO |
| Murphy-O'Connor, James | Galway and the First World War | MLitt | AD |
| Pennell, Catriona | A Kingdom United: British and Irish Responses to the Outbreak of War, July to December 1914 | PhD | JH |
| Rattigan, Cliona | Dark Spots in Irish Society: Unmarried Motherhood, Crime and Prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950 | PhD | DD |
| Stapleton, Patricia | A Social, Economic and Political Study of the Dublin Merchant Community, c.1630-1949 | PhD | JO |
| Verstraten, Freya | The Anglicisation of the Gaelic Irish Nobility, c.1169-c.1366 | PhD | SD |
| Walsh, Patrick | The Career of William Connolly, 1689-1729 | PhD | DD |
| Weimer, Amanda | The Elite of Scandinavia and their impact in Urban Settlement in the Viking Age | PhD | TB |
2006-07
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amyot, Michel | Royal Power under Philip I of France, 1059-1108 | MLitt | ISR |
| Arbuthnot, Paul | Church music in 19th century Dublin Cathedrals | MLitt | WV |
| Byrne, Lara | A study of a Gaelic-Irish Kingdom within the Anglo-Norman Colony of South East Connacht: of South East Connacht: the Cantreds of Siol Anmchadha and Muintermailfinnain | MLitt | TB |
| Carlson, Frank | Papal Policy in the output of the Chancery: 1143-1153 | PhD | ISR |
| Crooks, Peter | Factionalism in the late medieval lordship of Ireland | PhD | SD |
| Diamond, Ciaran | The Cathedral system in the Stuart period | PhD | AC |
| Gibney, John | Ireland and the Popish Plot, 1678-81 | PhD | AC |
| Foran, Susan | Royal biography in fourteenth-century Britain | PhD | SD |
| Hayes-Healy, Stephanie | Perpetual peregrination and the Irish in the Early Middle Ages | PhD | MKS |
| Kelly, Helen | The Irish in Argentina | PhD | DF |
| Kirwin, Richard | Universities in early modern Europe | PhD | HRH |
| Russell, Ian | Archaeology and identity in Ireland | PhD | TB |
| Siebrecht, Claudia | The female cultural avant-garde in Germany during the First World War | PhD | AK |
2005-06
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Devlin, Eoin | Fynes Moryson and his Itinerary | MLitt | CB |
| Hogan, Arelene | The lands of Llanthony Prima and Secunda in Ireland 1172-1541 | PhD | SD |
| Jones, Heather | The Enemy Disarmed. Prisoners of War and the Violence of Wartime. Britain, France and Germany 1914-1920 | PhD | AK |
| Keenan-Thompson, Tara | Irish Women and Street Politics, 1956-1974 | PhD | EOH |
| Kostick, Conor | The Language of Ordo in the early histories of the First Crusade | PhD | ISR |
| Maguire, Martin | The Civil Service, the State and the Irish Revolution, 1886-1938 | PhD | EOH |
| Muldowney, Mary | The Impact of the Second World War on Women in Belfast and Dublin: An Oral History | PhD | DF |
| O'Malley, Kate | Ireland, India and Empire: Indo-Irish Radical Connections, 1919-1964 | PhD | EOH |
| Pole, Adam | Landlord Responses to the Irish Land War, 1879-1882 | PhD | WV |
| Schmidt-Supprian, | The Antwerp Question: the significance of the port city of Antwerp Christoph for Germany during the War | PhD | AK |
| Smith, James | Principle George Hill (1750-1819) on authority | MLitt | CB |