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 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.’ Grille- The 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 1927- 1966 – 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, 1872- 1873: 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