MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
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MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Dissertations submitted for academic year 2013 – 2014 Catherine Bourke, The Black O’Connell? Frederick Douglass’s Travels through Ireland, 1845-46 –Dr Paul Rouse Ultan Brady, ‘A Distorted Mirror’: The Portrayal of the Balkan Wars of 1912-13 in the Irish Media – Dr Maria Falina Andrew J Carolan, What it Means to be an “Outsider”: The Political Ramifications for the Carter Administration – Professor Robert Strong Declan J. Clear, One Wore Gray, One Wore Blue: The Story of Two Irish in the American Civil War.– Dr Sandra Scanlon Liam Colford, A Public Life Considered: Edward Coyne, S.J. and the Commission on Vocational Organisation – Dr Susannah Riordan Adam Darnell, Willow Wielders: A History of Cricket in 1870s Ireland – Dr Paul Rouse Karl Daly, Starvation and Subversion: Political Prisoners in Mountjoy Prison and Belfast Jail, 1917-19 – Dr Conor Mulvagh Rio DeVore, Making Noise: The Role of Traditional, Punk & Alternative Music Throughout the Troubles – Professor Jennifer Todd Patrick J. Dowling, Beyond Masculinity: Behaviour amongst men – Prof. Tom Inglis Aisling Doyle, The Housing Inquiry of 1913-1914: An Analysis of Contemporary Perceptions of Poverty, Housing and the Poor – Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne Cliona Doyle, The Formation of the First Council of Education and its Report on the Function and Curriculum of the Primary School Arjen Engletjes, Mailing Power: German Correspondence with their Fuhrer 1933-1945 –Dr Patrick Bernhard Riain MacGiolla Phádraig (Ryan Fitzpatrick), The Changing Views of a Hunker: Benjamin F. Butler from Proslavery, Antislavery to Abolitionist – Professor Maurice Bric Sheila Gallagher, How the Nixon administration responded to the October war and the unique economic circumstance; oil being used as a political weapon 1973-1974 – Dr Robert Strong MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Eamonn Gordon, ‘Oildeology: An interpretation of American Foreign Policy in Saudi Arabia and Iraq’, Professor Brian Schoen James P. Grannell, “The great black plague”: The Treatment of Congenital Syphilis in Four Dublin Hospitals, 1918-1925 – Dr Catherine Cox Dylan Gray, ANZUS: How did Percy Spender succeed in attaining a regional defence pact between Australia and the United States where H.V. Evatt had failed? – Professor Jeff Kildea Bridget Harrison, “The darkened windows of a convent”: The 1853 Inspection of Nunneries Bill – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Maura Haverty, From Fashionistas to Recessionistas: Representations of Femininity in PostCeltic Tiger Ireland – Dr Emma Radley Rosalynd Hayes, The Rose of Tralee: How and Why the ‘Lovely Girls’ are still Popular Today – Prof. Tom Inglis Colm Healy, In the Shadow Of Amristar: Martial Law in Malabar, 1921-22 – Professor Diarmuid Ferriter Eva Heinemann, Everyday Life of Children and Youngsters in Nazi Germany – An Urban / Rural Comparative Study Michael Heney, Colonel Michael Heffernon and the 1970 Arms Crisis – Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter Gillian Holden, The Creation of an Empire: England’s Perseverance to Colonise America – Professor Maurice Bric John Kelehan, Feminists on the Frontline: Female Military Service and Gender Discrimination in the 1916 Easter Rising – Dr Conor Mulvagh Kieran Kirwan, Torn Loyalties: The Irish Army Deserters Who Fought For Britain in the Second World War – Dr Patrick Bernhard Shannon Maureen Lewis, ‘A Woman of Masculine Spirit’: Queenship and Power in TwelfthCentury England – Dr Michael Staunton and Dr Edward Coleman Johanna Lowry, The Irish Parliaments of Elizabeth I: Function, Control, Representation and Identity Politics – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Richard K. Maher, ‘No good deed goes unpunished’: A Study of Charles Wogan and his Removal from the Jacobite Court in Rome – Dr Declan M. Downey Liam Maloney, The ‘best interest his majesty has in this kingdom’: The Earl of Orrery and the Defence of the Protestant Interest in the Restoration Settlements of Ireland, 1660-65 –Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin David Molumby, The Graduate and Mrs Robinson: The 1990 Presidential Election – Dr Paul Rouse Ruth Morrissy, ‘The Vanishing Liberal Subject?’ Stalinism and Selfhood in the 1930s’ –Dr Judith Devlin Caren Mulcahy, Crisis and change in the Anglo-Norman colony in Southeast Leinster in the Fourteenth Century – Dr Edward Coleman and Dr Michael Staunton Blayne Murphy, UCD and the Great War – Professor Robert Gerwarth Matthew M. J. O’Brien, ‘We Shall Overcome’: How the Political, Cultural and Revolutionary Components of the Black Power Movement Influenced a Collective Consciousness among African Americans in the 1960s – Dr Sandra Scanlon Aidan O’Donnell, ‘R.W. Seton-Watson, Austria-Hungary and the South Slavs, 1905-1920 – Dr William Mulligan Kerry J. O’Hanlon, The Catholic Church and Irish Television in the 1960s: The transformation of the Church’s image through this new medium – Professor Mary Daly Colm O’Flaherty, Defying Blue Cast-Steel: The Farmers’ Rights Campaign and N.F.A. Militancy: 1966-1969 – Dr Paul Rouse Evan O’Quigley, L’Opium des intellectuels? Artists, Intellectuals and Communism in EastCentral Europe 1918-1968: A Multi-Generational Perspective Peter Reid, The Institutional Management of Soldiers with Shell Shock in Ireland, 1916-19 – Dr Catherine Cox Helen Scanlon, India and the British Commonwealth 1946-49 – Professor Robert Gerwarth Paul A. Taaffe, Building a New Deal: The Forgotten Impact of Infrastructural Construction on American Society – Dr Sandra Scanlon MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Dissertations submitted for academic year 2012 – 2013 Stephen Bance, ‘The Most Extensive Epidemic in Irish History’: The Response of the Department of Health to Poliomyelitis in Ireland 1956-58 – Dr Catherine Cox Eamonn Bennett, The Impact of the 1980 and 1981 Hunger Strikes on Anglo-Irish relations – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Eileen Bradish, Images of Ireland: Responses to the depiction of Ireland in foreign-made films – Dr Paul Rouse Dáire Brennan, Ninety Miles From Dublin: The Southern Print Media and the 1981 Republican Hunger Strike – Dr Paul Rouse Jim Bruce, Revolution from Above: Transforming Catholic Liturgy in Dublin & Westminster - Dr Tadgh Ó’hAnnracháin Robert Callaghan, Stalin’s Children: Dystopian Experiences, 1929-1953 – Dr Judith Devlin Mark Connolly, The Rise of Anti-Semitic Thought in Republican Spain – Dr David Kerr Sive Charles, Ireland and the Abdication: A Royal Scandal in the Free State – Dr Paul Rouse Georgina Cuinnea, ‘Victory of virtue over vice’: Donnybrook Fair and the Temperance movement – Professor Mary Daly Joseph Curran, Funding Dublin’s Hospitals c. 1847-1880 - Dr Catherine Cox Niall Curran, The Kenny Report and Development Land in Ireland: 1963-1974 – Professor Mary Daly Curtis Davis, What Lay Beneath: The Role of Irish Sailors in the British Fleet at the Battle of the Nile, 1 August 1798 – Dr Ivar McGrath Kathryn Delany, ‘The Redoubtable Mary MacSwiney’ and her Hunger-Strike of November 1922: A Case Study – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Megan Doyle, The Japanese American Internment during World War II: The Resistance – Dr Sandra Scanlon Ben Fagan, Photography and the Plan of Campaign in Ireland: 1887-1891 – Dr Catherine Cox MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Tasneem Filaih, ‘The Mecca towards which the liberty loving, plain people throughout the world everywhere look’ – Eamon de Valera’s American speeches 1919-1920: his strive for Irish liberty, sought in the American past, hoped for in the Wilsonian ideal - Professor Mary Daly Craig Gardiner, The Interaction of Religion and Sport in Ireland, 1800-1880 – Dr Tadgh Ó’hAnnracháin Scott Gaynor, JFK & the Imagery of Ireland – Dr Sandra Scanlon Claire Ging, St Brigit and her Feast Day Traditions in County Laois - Dr Mark Caball Dmitrii Glass, De Doctoribus: Collectio Canonum Hibernensis about the ecclesiastical scholars and teachers – Dr Roy Flechner Aoife Haberlin, The Knights Templar in Medieval Ireland – Dr Edward Coleman Aaron Haughey, The Pen and the Sword: Print and Paramiltarism during the Ulster Crisis – Dr Paul Rouse Louise Healy, An American Defence for Slavery: The Proslavery Discourse of the Free States during America’s Antebellum Period – Professor Maurice Bric Eoin Holligan, From Suez to the Congo: Ireland’s international development as a UN member state, 1955-1960 – Professor Robert Gerwarth Nicholas Houldsworth, The Irish Military Establishment and the War of the Spainish Succession 1701-14 – Dr Ivar McGrath Darren Kelly, The Power of Presentation: The Foundation of the Irish Free state’s Diplomatic Service during the lifetime of the Provisional Government, 1922 – Dr William Mulligan Erika Lewis, The Role of the Traditional Midwife in the North and West of Ireland from 1918-1950 – Dr Marc Caball Margaret McCabe, The Synge Family and Religious Toleration in Early Eighteenth-Century Ireland – Dr Ivar McGrath Ryan McCourt, The Church of Ireland and the Land War, 1879-1882 – Professor Mary Daly MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Patrick James McDonagh, An Ideological Divide or Clash of Personalities: The role of Adolf Brand, Magnus Hirschfeld and Friedrich Radzuweit in the Division within the Homosexual Emancipation Movement in Pre-Nazi Germany – Dr David Kerr Jack McGarry, Custodians of empire: Administrators, settlers and decolonisation in British Africa – Dr William Mulligan Michelle Murphy, Civil Religion; Waging the Cold War with God – Professor Matthew Sutton Fiona O’Mahony, Lord Mountbatten and Nationalism as a Solution to Inter-Communal Conflict in the Post-Colonial World – Professor Robert Gerwarth David O’Reilly, ‘We hope to annoy, stimulate, provoke, and infuriate but never bore.’ GrilleThe Irish Christian Left: Christian Marxism in 1960s Ireland – Dr Susannah Riordan Enda O’Rourke, Re-building a Broken Nation: Ernest Bevin’s role in the reconstruction of Germany, 1945-1948 – Dr William Mulligan Katelynne Pilcic, Brigit and Modwenna: A Study in Female Saints’ Hagiography Over Time – Dr Michael Staunton Bernard Plunkett, A Comparative analysis of the Opera Nazionale Balilla and the British Boy Scouts: 1908-1939 – Dr David Kerr Gavin Rooney, The Westboro Baptist Church - Dr Tadgh Ó’hAnnracháin Hugo Rowsome, ‘No Popery!’: The role of the Dens Theology controversy in re-establishing the Protestant Association and latent anti-popery in Britain, 1835-1836 – Dr Tadgh Ó’hAnnracháin Eóin Ryan, Blaming Parnell: Accounting for the decline of the GAA, 1889-1894 – Dr Paul Rouse Emma Stewart, Selling War: The Bush Administration’s Campaign to Win Public Support for the Gulf War – Dr Sandra Scanlon Jessica Storoschuk, The Treatment of Children in Secular Law and Canon Law in Early Medieval Ireland – Dr Roy Flechner Gilliam Smith, Public attitudes towards mental illness in Ireland during the period 19271966 – Dr Susannah Riordan MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Shane Smyth, The Battle for the Memory of Stalingrad: The Commemoration of the Battle of Stalingrad in Russia – Dr Judith Delvin William Teague, The Creation of Identity and Influence: How Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Media Defined and Depicted the Three Major American Sports – Dr Paul Rouse Natasha Thompson, The Queen Victoria’s Jubilee Institute of Nursing in Ireland, 1889-1918 – Dr Catherine Cox Michael Tonkin, Survey of Methodology: A Comparative Study of the Conversion of Scandinavians in Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England and Francia – Dr Roy Flechner Conor Tonry, Changing legacy, lasting fame: The Transformation of Public Perception of George Armstrong Custer in 19th and 20th Century America – Professor Matthew Sutton Dean Watters, Punitive Policymaking: The Origins and Impacts of General Orders No. 11 in Civil War Missouri – Professor Maurice Bric Dissertations submitted for academic year 2011 - 2012 Anthony Barrett, Spinning the War: American Propaganda in World War 1 and the Development of Modern Mass Communications – Dr William Mulligan Leanne Blaney, The Media and Irish Motorsport, 1900 – 1939- Dr Paul Rouse Paul Bonner, Did World War One Alter International Maritime Law? – Dr William Mulligan Eoin Bourke, ‘How were scientific and medical ideas around homosexuality to develop in the Third Reich and did any one scientific argument dominate in the actions to be taken against homosexuality? - Dr Stephan Malinowski Peter Branigan, Explain the Relationship between the Gaelic Athletic Association and the Media in the Period 1918 to 1940 – Dr Paul Rouse Suzanne Breslin, ‘The Quiet Exception to Every Rule’: The Motivations and Tensions behind the Diphtheria Immunisation Scheme in Dublin, 1929-1948 - Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne Cian Burke, The British Armaments Industry before the First World War and the Dangers of the Free Market – Dr William Mulligan MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Neil Burns, Surrender, Oblivion, Retreat: did Serbia’s decision in 1915 save a nation? – Dr William Mulligan Claire Carroll, Interests at Heart: an Examination of the Creation, Sinking and Judicial Aftermath of the Steamship Titanic 1912 in Economic, Commercial and Financial Terms – Dr David Kerr Raphaël Cheriau, The Sir Bartle Frere mission to Zanzibar and British public opinion, 18721873: Anti-slavery, humanitarianism and imperialism – Dr Christopher Prior Marcus Chew, ‘A Failure of Diplomacy?’: President Carter and Operation Eagle Claw – Dr Graham Cross Evan Confrey, The 1967 Arab/Israel War and the Special Relationship between the United States of America and Israel – Dr Graham Cross John Collins, The Blacksod Bay Project – Dr Susannah Riordan Stephen Corri, ‘The Father of the Modern Irish Diplomatic Service’ Joseph Walshe, the Department of External Affairs and its role in the Consolidation of the Irish Free State – Dr Susannah Riordan Lisa Marie Cosgrave, Doctor Thomas Percy Claude Kirkpatrick and the Treatment of Syphilis at Doctor Steevens Venereal Disease Clinic, Dublin, 1919 – 1930 – Dr Catherine Cox Donal Costello, The Career of Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair, King of Connacht 1106 to 1156 – Dr Elva Johnson Colm Daly, Critics of détente in the Ford era: Paving the Way for the Reagan Presidency – Dr Sandra Scanlon John Delaney, The Evolution of the Monastic Town of Clonmacnoise – Dr Elva Johnson Shayna Devlin, Scotland in the Early Fourteenth Century: National Identity, Ethnicity and Translational Alliances – Dr. Edward Coleman Gerard Dooley, Years of Crises, Nenagh 1914 – 1921, Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Jordan Eis, Kenya: The Breakdown of Colonial Relationships and the Failure of Indirect Rule - Dr Christopher Prior Megan Eves, Ogham and the Evolution of Irish Historical Thinking – Dr Edel Bhreathnach MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Donal Fallon, ‘The Corner Boy Type’: The ‘Animal Gangs’ of Dublin in the 1930’s and 1940’s – Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne Patrick Finnegan, Radical Left Agitation during the Irish War of Independence: Revolutionary Potential or Elusive Ideal – Dr Sandy Wilkinson Martin Fitzpatrick, Liam Mellows: His Final Tragic Year and the Management of his Legacy – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Neil Glackin, Home Rulers in a Free State: The National League Party, 1926-31 – Dr Susannah Riordan Alyson Gray, ‘All the News that’s Fit to Print?’ – A Study of the Reaction to the Leak of the Pentagon Papers by The New York Times in 1971 – Dr Paul Rouse Simon Hall, The Church of Ireland and Secular Republicanism in the 18th Century – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Ross Hanan, The Development of Infirmaries in Irish Asylums 1844 – 1900, Dr Catherine Cox Anneka Hickey, ‘Hereditary Taint’ or ‘Careless Consumptives’: the Production of Tuberculosis Stigma in Dublin from 1880 to 1914 – Dr Catherine Cox Andrea Kealy, Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act: A Study of its Impacts – Dr Paul Rouse Declan Keenan, A Case Study of Tower Houses in County Mayo, Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin James Kelly, Rhetoric and Reality: An Assessment of the Nationalist Aspect of the GAA, 1898 – 1905 – Dr Paul Rouse Anne Maddock O’Reilly, St James’s Gate, 1914-1918: Guinness Brewery during the Great War – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Daire McCafferty, ‘It ought…to be the care of every man, according to the station he is placed in, to promote so general a good to his country as the trade and commerce of it’. An Analysis of the Economic Works of Arthur Dobbs, 1720-38 – Dr Eamon O’Flaherty Ellen McCarthy, ‘Removal of the Five Civilised Tribes, 1801 – 1838: A Reassessment of the Culpability of Andrew Jackson’ – Dr Douglas Egerton MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Stephanie McCourt, French Press Opinion on Irish Affairs: A Study of the Anglo-Irish Treaty 1921, From a French Perspective – Dr Susannah Riordan Darragh McEvoy, Conversion and Proselytization in Queen’s County, 1695 – 1800 – Dr Eamon O’Flaherty Éanna McIntyre, ‘The Misapplication of American Power’. The United States and the IranIraq War, 1980 – 1988 – Dr Tadhg O’hAnnrachain Niamh McNally, Development of Public and Private Spaces in Early 20th Century Dublin – Dr David Kerr Anne Murnaghan, The Decline of the Irish Anti-Partition League: An Examination of Political Policies and Media Portrayal of the League, 1938 – 1954 – Dr Paul Rouse Anne-Marie V. Nielsen, Modern Empire and Afghanistan: The Discourse of Saving Afghan Women, Dr Stephen Malinowski Ciarán Ó Braonáin, ‘Because it is Dun Chaoin today, it is Conamara tomorrow, and it is Donegal the day after that’: The Scoil Dun Chaoin Controversy and the Gaeltacht Civil Rights Movement, 1970 – 73 – Dr Lindsey Earner Byrne Colin O’Donnell, The United States’ Ill Heeded Lessons on Afghanistan – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Brigid Nora O’Neill, Pilgrimages from Ireland, 1922 – 1950 – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Shane Ó Ruairc, The Last Days of a President: The Resignation of President Cearbhall Ó Dalaigh from Office, Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Kilian O’Sullivan, Fear and Loathing in the Pacific. The Nature of U.S Antagonism of the Japanese, 1905 – 1941 - Dr Declan Downey Rachel O’Sullivan, Irish Prisoners of War in Germany: An Investigation of Distinction, 1939 – 1945 – Dr Stephan Malinowski Julianne Pigott, Rehabilitating Conchubranus: Reframing the Female Saint for her Audience - Dr Elva Johnston Aisling Redmond, The Effect of British Adherence to Zionism on the Jewish National Question 1914 – 1919, Dr William Mulligan MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Katherina Ryan, An Analysis of the Irish Mental Health Commission Report of 1966 and its Medical and Social Context 1960 – 1966, Dr Lindsey Earner-Byrne Francesco Scatigna, The Evolution of the French Perspective Towards Germany, From Versailles to Locarno 1919 – 1925 – Dr. William Mulligan Luke Scully, Everyday Life: Late Soviet Russia – Dr. Judith Devlin Deirdre Shiel, The Economic and Land Holdings of the New English in King’s and Queen’s Counties, 1550-1603 – Dr Tadhg O’hAnnrachain John Simpson, German Naval Policy and the Reaction of The New York Times: 1914-1917 – Dr Sandy Wilkinson Patrick Smith, Conscription in Britain, 1916: A marriage of political and military necessity – Dr William Mulligan Shamra Smith, Our Lady of Guadalupe and Saint Brigit: Native Deities with Christian Agendas – Dr Elva Johnston Tobias Smith, The Import of Norman Predation into Southern Italy and Sicily in the Eleventh Century – Dr Michael Staunton Paul Stewart, The Concerned Parents Against Drugs Campaign in Dublin from 1982 to 1987 – Dr. Sarah Campbell Jennifer Taylor, An Analysis of the Role of a Non-Medical Female Management Committee in the Running of the Belfast Lying-In Hospital Between 1794 and 1882 – Dr Lindsey EarnerByrne. Martin Timmons, Wicklow and the Civil War 1922 – 1923 – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Jack Whelan, Romantics, Recidivists and Racists: Society and Race in American Comic Books 1946 – 1956 – Dr Graham Cross MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Dissertations submitted for academic year 2010 – 2011 Steven Balbirnie, The Paris Peace Conference and the Formation of the Yugoslav State – Dr. William Mulligan Jordan Braschler, The Evolving Relationship between Saint Brigit and Saint Patrick – Mr. Charles Doherty Ronan Breathnach, British Army Reform between 1900 and 1914, with a focus on Richard Burdon Haldane’s Tenure as Secretary of State for War – Dr. William Mulligan Hugh Brett, Hola Camp and Kenyatta: The Defining Years in Kenya, 1959-1963 – Dr. Christopher Prior Claire Burson, St. Patrick vs. Cenn Cruaich: An evolving Confrontation – Dr. Elva Johnston Eoghan Carney, ‘Unbearable Burdens’: The Civil War and the Decline of the Great Southern and Western Railway – Dr Susannah Riordan Jack Carter, ‘Care for these neglected little ones’: An analysis of the role of health in the provision of child welfare at Miss Carr’s Homes for Destitute Children, 1898-1902 – Dr. Lindsey Earner Byrne Sara Chastek, The Census Boycott of 1911 – Dr. Paul Rouse Christopher Choquette, The Decolonization of South Africa: Prevailing Factors in the reality and Mode of Final Withdrawal – Dr. Christopher Prior Mary Cody, The Importance of the Harry Hopkins visit to Britain January 1941 – Dr. Christopher Prior Elisha Conlon, Improving Women: Male Religious Prescriptions in Early Stuart England – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Jeffrey R. Cox, ‘A Man of Wit, Service and Good Activity’: The Career of Sir Thomas Cusack, 1533-69 – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Ciara Crosbie, The Struggle for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland and the Influence of International Equality Movements with a focus on the United States – Dr. Sandra Scanlon Niall Daly, ‘In the Service of Humanity’: An Analysis of Occupational Health and Welfare in the Guinness Medical Department under Dr John Lumsden: 1900-1905 – Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives James Dillon, ‘A finely tuned expression of Irish nationalism’?: The Capuchin Annual, 19301977 – Professor Diarmaid Ferriter Janine Doyle, The Dance Halls Act of 1935 – A study of the conditions surrounding its drafting and enactment – Dr Paul Rouse Philip Doyle, Australia and the Period of the fall of Singapore, December 1941-June 1942: a Turning – Point? – Prof. Mark McKenna Matthew Enright, The forging of a rebel: a comparative analysis of the life and work of Arturo Barea and George Orwell – Dr. Christopher Prior Paul Fleming, The Class of 1918: General Henry Rawlinson and the learning curve in British army command during the First World War – Dr William Mulligan Mary Gallagher, ‘A very onerous national trust’: the Irish National Aid and Volunteer Dependents’ Fund August 1916 to July 1919 – Dr. Lindsey Earner Byrne Conor Goulding, A Sound Defence: Britian’s reaction to the Expédition d’Irlandes - Dr. Ivar McGrath Cian Hackett Cantabrana, “The English Achilles”: The Image of John Talbot as a chivalric knight – Dr. Melissa Pollock Jane Hand, The Crusade to ‘Conquer Cancer’: Public and Voluntery Health Education Initiatives in the Campaign against Lung Cancer in Ireland 1956-1978 – Dr. Catherine Cox Andrew Hayes, Housing Initiatives for British Army ex-Servicemen in Post-War Ireland, 1918-1923: A New Departure or a New Plantation? – Dr. Susannah Riordan James Houlihan, Cain Adomnain (697 AD) and its Contexts: A Law for Innocents – Dr. Elva Johnston Susan Jackson, Prison life and Hunger Strikes. An Analysis of the female Civil War prisoners’ experience in Kilmainham Jail and the North Dublin Union – Dr. Susannah Riordan Sean Jacob, Exemplary Citizens? Writers and Public Opinion in Stalin’s Russia: Collaboration, Accommodation and Dissent – Dr Judith Devlin Fiona Kelly, ‘No Riot No News’: William Joyce’s Fascist Writings on Race, Nation and Empire – Dr Christopher Prior MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Leanne Kelly, Pre-War Concentration Camps as a Weapon of Domestic Terror. Terror and Repression in the Concentration Camps 1933-1939 - Dr. Stephan Malinowski John Kenna, America from the Stamp Act to the Declaration of Independence as reported in the newspapers of Ireland 1760 – 1775 – Dr. Ivan McGrath Stephen P. Keville, The White Eagle & Red Bear: Zbigniew Brzezinski & the Breakdown of the USSR, 1950-1990 – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Ciarán Fisher, An analysis of the literature of Edward Upward: The perspective and reception of a Leninist in Britain – Dr. David Kerr Kaatje Lomme, The Dublin Maternity Hospitals and the 2004 Irish Citizenship Referendum – Dr. Catherine Cox Ciaran McCabe, The Impact of the 1817-19 and 1826-27 Fever Epidemics on the Cork Street Fever Hospital, Dublin – Dr. Catherine Cox Serena McCarville, Universities in the Third Reich: The Impact of National Socialism on the transformation of German universities between 1933 and 1938 – Dr. Stephan Malinowski David McGlinchey, Irish-Israeli Relations and The’ Palestinian Factor’ – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Megan McGoldrick, The Erosion of Private Life Under the Third Reich: The Family Unit, abortion and Eugenics - Dr. Stephan Malinowski Dorothy McHugh, The Belfast Boycott: a Comparative Analysis of the Campaign in County Donegal – Dr. Susannah Riordan Eimear McHugh, Moral Treatment, Space and Overcrowding in the Richmond District Lunatic Asylum, 1850-1900 – Dr. Catherine Cox David McMahon, The Inferior Clergy of the Church of Ireland: 191-1729 – Dr John McCafferty Catherine Maguire, Spies spying on spies: Secret Intelligence in Neutral Ireland in 1940 – Dr. Declan Downey Siobhan Maguire, John Barry, Emigration and the Irish Diaspora – Dr. Ivar McGrath Kelly A. Mahoney, “We have the right to exclude”: Henry Cabot Lodge and the Debate on Immigration, 1891-1924 – Dr. Maurice Bric MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Katie Moran, ‘Jesus My Patient’: Catholic Action and the Irish Nursing News, 1920s-1930s – Dr. Catherine Cox Ciarán Murphy, I Love the Constitution, But I Hate Nixon More: The President, the Senate and the War Powers Resolution of 1973 – Dr. Sandra Scanlon Lucy Ní Chearúil, Lyndon B. Johnson and the Search for Consensus: The Rhetoric of Race in Domestic Affairs 1963-1968 – Dr. Sandra Scanlon Michelle O’Reilly, Luke Kelly: The Godfather of the 1960s Irish Folk Revival – Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter Sean O’Rourke, A Conflict Forseen: British Visions of War Prior to 1914 – Dr. William Mulligan Barra O’Ruairc, Al Smith- A Symbol of the American Dream? – Prof. Maurice Brice Graham O’Sullivan, The Knights Hospitaller and the Christian Navy League 1309-1402 – Dr. Edward Coleman Edward John Oakes, Hidden Witnesses: The Jewish Children of Occupied France 1940-44 – Dr. Judith Devlin Muireann Quinn, Good Neighbours: Anglo-Irish Interdependence and the Nigerian Civil War – Dr Christopher Prior Leighann Rooney, The Evolution of Spectacle Lynching in the South 1890-1910 - Dr. Sandra Scanlon Niamh Scannell, The Development of Aer Lingus 1935-1946 – Dr Paul Rouse Brian Sheehan, On the ‘Wrong Side’ of History: John Cudahy, FDR’s ‘Isolationist’ Diplomat at a critical turning point in 20th century U.S. foreign policy – Professor Maurice Bric Rachael Shortt, Evidence of a burgeoning secular state? An examination of the condition of church-state relations in the Republic of Ireland at the time of the Papal visit by Pope John Paul II in September 1979 – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Matt Stapleton, Michael MacWhite in Rome: 1938-1945 – Dr. Susannah Riordan Stephen Sweeney, United States global strategy and the Korean War – Dr. William Mulligan MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Conor Tannam, An Irish solution to and Irish problem: The Irish Medical Association and the introduction of the Family Planning Act in 1979 – Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne Peter Troute, The Paston Letters: Crime and Punishment in Fifteenth Century England – Dr. Michael Staunton Nina Vodstrup Andersen, Raising Blood-Stained Hands to Heaven: the Catholic Church and the IRA, 1916 – 1921 – Dr Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin Amanda Wahlmeier, The Pagan Portrayal of Ireland in the Vita Prima of Saint Brigit of Kildare – Dr. Elva Johnston Colm Walsh, Scotland Yard and the Development of Counter Revolutionary Anarchist Strategies in Response to the “Illustrious Corpses” of Europe – Dr. Declan Downey MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Dissertations submitted for academic year 2009 – 2010 Margaret Ayres, Equal Pay in the 1970s? Delays, Dissent and Disinterest – Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter Julie Bailey, Forgotten Voices: Adolescence in the Third Reich – Dr. David Kerr Mark Barry, The Vatican and Nazism: The role of the Catholic Church and the Papacy during the rise of Nazism and its reaction to the Final Solution – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Fiona Bateman, ‘Time To Think About Torture.’ US Civil Perceptions Towards the Use of Interrogational Torture Post-9/11 – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Desmond Bates, Keepers to Nurses? A History of the Irish Asylum Workers’ Trade Union 1917-1924 – Dr. Catherine Cox Lisa Bogert, The Moralist Presidency of Jimmy Carter: Idealistic Conviction or Pragmatic Calculation – Prof. Maurice Bric Eugene Brennan, Approaches to Urban Space and the Formation of Intellectual Identity in Surrealist Paris – Dr. David Kerr Niall Brennan, Weimar Memory and the Mutilated Veteran – Dr. David Kerr Joseph Cahill, The Boer War and the British Military, From Failure to Victory by Unconventional Means – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Erica Camp, Marriage as Martyrdom in Saints’ Lives: The Changing Motif of Marriage in the Hagiography of St Æthelthryth – Dr. Michael Staunton Roisin Clancy, Orient and Occident: Democratisation and its enemies in Burma – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Susan Cloonan, State Intervention in the East India Company: 1760-1900 – Dr. William Mulligan John Cullen, ‘Are There Any Votes Riding On This?’ Electoral Votes and Clinton’s Cuban Policy 1992-1996 – Dr. William Mulligan Lee Dalton, Absent from the negotiations: An assessment of the media’s coverage of the Schuman Plan in Britain, May 1950 to April 1951 – Dr. William Mulligan MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives Dáo Ngoc Lai, Post-Soviet Georgia and the August 2008 South-Ossetia War. Legacies, conflicts of interest and a fixed geographical position on the road to independence – Dr. Stephan Malinowski Geoffrey Dolan, “Standing Alone”: Propaganda and the Diplomacy in Defence of the Portuguese Empire under the Estado Novo 1930-1975 – Dr. David Kerr Cillian Stephen Doyle, “Adopting Zionism as a liberal cause: C.P. 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