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 Post- Celtic 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 Twelfth- Century 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 East- Central 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.’ 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 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 Iran- Iraq 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 Earner- Byrne.
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, 1930- 1977 – 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. Scott, the Manchester Guardian and the Zionist movement, 1914-1932” – Dr. Tadhg O’hAnnrachain
Gerard Doyle, The 1918 general election in Dublin – Prof. Michael Laffan
Daniel Doody, ‘Elle est out a place?’ – The media portrayal of class divisions during the French 1995 social strikes – Dr. David Kerr
Kaye Duffy, ‘A Good Days Work for the Country’ A unique vocational school in Virginia, County Cavan – Dr. Susannah Riordan
Peter Dunne, Contrary to popular belief oil majors follow rather than issue political directions – Dr. William Mulligan
David Durnin, Intertwining Institutions: The Relationship Between the South Dublin Union Workhouse and the Richmond Lunatic Asylum, 1880-1911 – Dr. Catherine Cox
Mary Egan, The Registry of Clonmacnoise as a historical and topographical source – Dr. Edel Bhreathnach
Stephen Elliott, Mare Nostrum: Was British Policy in the Mediterranean 1937-1938 Responsible for Italy’s Pact of Steel with Nazi Germany – Dr. William Mulligan
Robert Ellis, Arthur Koestler’s Trilogy of Revolutionary Ethics: A 1940s Reception of Three ‘Novels of Ideas’ – Dr. Judith Devlin
Rebecca Finnegan, ‘Can you help me?’: The role of the agony aunt in 1960s Ireland – Dr. Judith Devlin
Rory Fogarty, Private Contractors in Iraq: Death, Democracy and the American Public 2001-2007 – Dr. Stephan Malinowski
Kimberley Foy, Buying Friendship in Thirteenth Century Europe: A study of the assembly of allies by King John and the role of the money fief, 1194-1214 – Dr. Michael Staunton
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Eileen Gahan, Merovingian Diplomacy: Practice and purpose in the sixth Century – Prof. Edward James
Felipe Henderson, A vindication of Jackson’s complex character from his early years to his presidency of the United States – Prof. David Doyle
Graeme Hoyne, Crime, Corruption, and Celebrity: The Kefauver Committee’s Investigation into the American Underworld – Prof. David Doyle
Ciaran Hurley, The Decline of the Church of Ireland and the Rise of Greystones Parish – Dr. Susannah Riordan
Mary Kelly, London, British Library, Egerton 3323, fo. 18: a sole survivor in twelfth-century Glendalough – Mr. Charles Doherty
Amanda Kiernan, Irish perceptions of Germany, 1929-1939 – Dr. Susannah Riordan
Ciaran Laird, European involvement in the search for a political solution in Northern Ireland in the 1970s – Dr. William Mulligan
Fergal Laing: ‘Getting in on the ground floor’: the United States’ relations with Indonesia’s New Order – Dr. Catherine Hynes
Karen Lenehan, Woodrow Wilson’s Ironic Destiny – Dr. William Mulligan
David Levy, Newspaper Coverage of Events in Cork 1919-1921 – Professor Michael Laffan
Selina Lindsay, The Women Myth. More Media Than Meaning? Representations of British women as depicted through the eyes of the Manchester Guardian: 1937 & 1952 – Dr. Alexander Wilkinson
Ciara Lynch, ‘Perfidious Mesentente’: The significance of the Anglo-German Naval Agreement of 1935 – Dr. William Mulligan
Conall Mac Michael, The Evolution of Malcolm X and its Effect on Black Radicals – Prof. Maurice Bric
Rosita McHugh, The Military orders in Ireland: Hospitality and Economy – twelfth to early fourteenth centuries – Dr. Edward Coleman
Morgan McKenna, Anthony Eden’s Anti-Americanism – Dr. William Mulligan
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Catherine McVey, Ideologists Make the Best Neocons. An Analysis of the Ideological Motivation behind Neoconservative Thought on U.S. Foreign Policy during the 1970s – Dr. William Mulligan
John Magee, The effect of State policy on Catholics in the viceroyalty of Oliver St. John and of Viscount Falkland – Dr. Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin
Aidan Marshall, The Impact of Colonialism on Parliament, 1621 – Dr. Ivar McGrath
Ezequiel Mercau, Abandoned Britons? The Sunningdale Agreement and Ulster Britishness – Dr. William Mulligan
Aine Mitchell, ‘Swine ‘Flu Affair’: Ireland’s Reaction to a Potential Pandemic in 1976 – Dr. Ian Miller
James Mooney, An Opportunity Missed? How Successive British Governments Related to the Complexities of South Asian Immigrant Integration into British Society 1961-1978 – Dr. Alexander Wilkinson
Cormac Moore, “An Astounding Moment of Aberration” The Removal of Dr. Douglas Hyde as Patron of the GAA – Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter
James Murphy, The city in film: Aspects of urban life in Berlin and Moscow during the Interwar ear, as represented in contemporary movies – Dr. David Kerr
Christine Murray, ‘Innoculated With the Home Rule Virus’: Politics, Protest and the Role of Enniscorthy in Resisting Compulsory Smallpox Vaccination, 1909-1917 – Dr. Catherine Cox
Eoin Murray, ‘Testing Relations: Cordell Hull, Anthony Eden, and the search for an Anglo- American Relationship, 1933-1938’ – Dr. Catherine Hynes
Patrick Murray, Coal-Dust Covered Policies: The Impact of British Denazification Policy on the German Coal Mining Industry – Dr. William Mulligan
Robert Nestor, ‘The Role of US Ambassador to the UN, Charles Woodruff Yost, in the Formation of the Middle East Policy of the Nixon Administration, 1969-1971’ – Prof. Maurice Bric
Frances Nolan, A Significant Woman: Sarah Churchill, duchess of Marlborough, and the illusion of power, 1705-06 – Dr. Ivar McGrath
Andrew O’Brien, Opening the Iron Curtain: The Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt – Dr. Stephan Malinowski
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Darren O’Byrne, To Know is to Act? Bureaucratic Reactions to News of the Final Solution, 1941-42 – Dr. Stephan Malinowski
Ross O’Carroll, The Gaelic Athletic Association 1914-1918 – Dr. Paul Rouse
Richard O’Connor, ‘A testing crucible for peace and those charged with keeping it: us.’ Learning institutions of Irish peacekeeping from the Congo to the Lebanon – Dr. William Mulligan
Eoin O’Donnchadha, Filid i Sanas Cormaic: A picture of Pragmatic Professionals – Dr Elva Johnston
James O’Reilly, ‘Dublin’s Outstanding Problem’: An analysis of the debates, policies and solutions regarding the housing crisis: 1922-39 – Dr. Lindsey Earner-Byrne
Lukas Peacock, ‘Breaking down barriers’: An insight into the political career of Robert Briscoe – Prof. Diarmaid Ferriter
Andrew Prendergast, An Exposure So Immense? The Significance of Senator Joe McCarthy’s Televised Appearances to his Decline – Prof. David Doyle
Brendan Thomas Ryan, ‘It is not what we are but what we call ourselves that matters’: the Irish Free State and the Imperial Conference of 1926 – Prof. Michael Laffan
Cormac Ryan, Patriotism, Propaganda and Public Opinion in Nazi Occupies Belorussia, 1941-1944 – Dr. Judith Devlin
Nicole Sandler, ‘In riotouse and unlawefull maner’: Non-Sectarian Violence in Ireland, 1610-1640 – Dr. Tadhg O’ hAnnrachain
Tiarnan L. Sparks, “Edmund Burke: An Emergent Irishness” – Dr. Eamon O’Flaherty
Eimear Walsh, The impact of Anti-Mexican sentiment on American perceptions of Diego Rivera during the Great Depression – Dr. David Kerr
Stephen A. Whelan, Modern Shōguns: MacArthur, Yoshida & the Making of Modern Japan – Dr. Declan Downey
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2008 – 2009
Kate Barry, Music and Patronage at the Court of Henry VIII
Laura Anne Brennan, The heroic model of William Marshal: An examination of the idealisation and reality of knighthood and chivalry in the twelfth century Angevin Empire
Martin J Brennan, Northern Ireland’s Press coverage of the ‘Arms Crisis’ in 1970
Rosemarie Carr, Bloody Sunday Derry, 30 January 1972 Reactions and Responses from the Nationalist Community
Drew Curley, Shifting Tides of Power: An Examination of Viking Control and Strategy in Ireland and Northwest England, 841-927
Andrew Flynn, ‘A Matter of Duty’: The Diplomatic Career of George Gavan Duffy
Glyn Garvin, ‘Most Dangerous to the Truth’: The Kevin O’Higgins Murder Investigation
Adrienne Hawley, Alexis de Tocqueville on Democracy in America: Religion and Equality in American in 1831
Paul Huddie, The Cloth and the Crimea: Irish Clergy as Chaplains and Nurses in the Crimean War, 1854-6
Alan Keegan, Senator Mike Mansfield and Opposing the Escalation of the Vietnam War during the Kennedy Administration
Dubheasa Siobhan Kennedy, ‘This is not a season for donkey carriages’ (Jane Austen), Jane Austen and the history of transport, c.1775-1817
Joanne Kenny, ‘Is the Pen Mightier than the Sword?’ Terrorism and the Media in the Twentieth Century
Paul Kilgallon, Blind-eye to Persecution: British Reactions to the Jewish Persecutions in Germany 1933-38
Mark Kirwan, How to deal with Vikings: A study of Reaction and Resistance to the Viking Raids in Medieval Ireland and England
Alison Kolodzy, Remembering Stalin: the Role of Literature and the Functioning of Memory in Russia
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Aoife Lyons, Responses to the Commission on Emigration and Other Population Problems, 1948-1954
Art McCorristine, The Saint Patrick’s Battalion: The Irish who Fought for Mexico
Richard McElwee, War of Words The Soldier and the First Draft of History
Keith McLoughlin, The issues facing Labour Government regarding the South Atlantic Dependencies in the late 1970’s
Kiley Malone, The Desert as a State of Mind: Gender and Asceticism in the lives of St Monenna
Sean Masterson, Establishing the Irish Free State on the World Stage: Michael MacWhite and Irish policy in the League of Nations, 1921 – 1929
Alice Mauger, ‘Confinement of the Higher Orders’? The Significance of Private Lunatic Asylums in Ireland, 1820-1860
Susan Muldoon, Saint Oliver Plunkett, The Conspiracy Theories
Brian Norris, The French Directory in Ireland in 1798
Barry J O’Connell, Unravelling the Enigma: Patrick Curtis and Wellington during the Peninsular War
Pádraig Ó’Fearghaíl, The split in the Irish republican movement December 1969 - January 1970 and the national media coverage
Declan O’Keeffe, A Man for Others and a Beacon in the Twilight Matthew Russell, S.J. and the Irish Monthly
Niamh O’Reilly, ‘Our Bloody Friday’: Responses to the Dublin and Monaghan Bombings, 1974
Patrick J. O’Reilly, Prudentia et Fortitudine in the Tudor Period, The O’Reillys: An Analysis of Annalistic Evidence (1100-1600 AD)
Ronan O’Reilly, Partition and sport in Ireland – the divide in athletics and Cycling: How nationalist ideology led to a global ban for both sports
Niall Oman, The Irish Peace-Keeping Mission to the Congo 1960-61 Experience and Aftermath
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Robbie Roulston, The Church of Ireland, the Irish state and second-level education: 1962- 1972
Johanna Scally, Depictions of the Scientist in 1950s British popular culture: State, security and institutionalisation
Barry Smith, Mael Sechnaill mac Domnaill: Reassessing a neglected high-king
Anna Sweeney, The Origins of Pop art in Britain and America
Paul Teehan, Press Coverage of the Treaty
Jacob Tomkins, Competition between Dublin newspapers during the Crises of European Fascism 1936 – 1939
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2007 – 2008
Proinsias Báicéir, Christus Rex and Industrial Relations
Clodagh Buckley, The Evolution of British Policy towards Palestine during the Arab revolt 1936-1939.
Myles Cassidy, Camus the Pied Noir and the Algerian within him in 1930s Algeria
William Cleary, An outline of the War of Independence in South Tipperary and a case study on the participation of Thomas Donavan
Jonathan Aaron Coyle, The Division of Korea in the years 1945-1948 and the role played by the policies of the United Satates
Steve Dillon, The Irish Catholic Church’s Use of the Print Media and Bishops’ Pastorals to Communicate Change 1963-1968
Enda Dufy, Be realistic, demand the impossible, An inquiry into the political and philosophical influences of the Parisian student radicals in the years leading up to and during the events of May 1968
Denis Doolan, Leo Amery and the Nativity of the Balfour Declaration, 1914-26: Evolution from Within or Revolution from Without?
Conan Doyle, The Road to the Decent Interval: Henry A. Kissinger and the Development of America’s Vietnam Exit Strategy
Nadar Fares, Managing Urban Regeneration: Dublin and Bilbao in the 1980s and 1990s
Andrew Felle, Analysis of the Soviet Youth Culture and Society Post Cold War – A Result of the rapid social upheaval influenced by external factors or a long developing trend?
Ronan Flaherty, The Press and Public reaction in the Irish Republic to the Northern Ireland crisis of 1969
Peter Timothy Fleming, Throwing Down Terminus: the Importance of the Explorers, Exploration and Mapping of the Rocky Mountains and the West from 1825-1845
Suzanne Elizabeth Forbes, Dublin’s Printers and partisan Politics, 1708-1715
Kevin H Gibney, An Irishman fighting for the King
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Alan Glynn, ‘A Crippled Child’: Dublin Licensed Vintners and the 1943 Intoxicating Liquor Bill-Power and Influence
Vanessa Greene, The Mississippi State Sovereignty Commissions and the Investigation of the Anti-War Protest
Jimmy Hussey, From Union Jack to Uncle Sam: Jordan’s Changing Relationship with the West
Ciarán Kealy, ‘A great and mighty man when we are all forgotten’: Michael Collins, Myth and Memory
Aisling Lawler, Guilty of Loving Ireland: A Critical Biography of Eithne Coyle 1897-1985
Roisin Mary Lawlor, The Press Coverage of the Removal of the Oath of Allegiance
Robert Mannering, Dismantling the Dream: Murray Bookchin and the Radical American Left
Aidan McElvey, The Image of China in Medieval Western Sources.
Lucy Alice Mc Phail, ‘A New Irish Woman?’ The Emergence of Fashion Consciousness in 1960’s Fashion Magazines
Emmet McQuillan, Woodrow Wilson and the Shantung Crisis
Shane Pierce, What form did anti-communism take in post-war 1940s and 1950s Ireland?
Orla Quirke, Colonel Dan Bryan, Dr. Richard Hayes and the deciphering of German codes by Irish Intelligence (G2) during World War II
Laura Patton, Abortion Debate in Ireland from the Famine to the First World War
Conor Rock, ‘Why do they not just lie down and die’: Fine Gael, 1944-1948
Mary Ryan, Kennedy’s Efforts to Build a Second Line of Defence in Southeast Asia: A Case Study
Damien Peters, Mark Sykes and the Creation of the Inter-Allied Agreement 1916
Claire Sheridan, The Irish in Britain: A study of Irish born elites living in Britain 1870-1950
Nienke Van Etten, The Murder of Murchad Ua Maelsechnaill: A Re-Examination of the Irish Round Towers
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Emer Tannam, Welfare, Citizenship and Traveller Identity: The Report of the Commission on Itinerancy 1963
Simon Toner, ‘You had the War Won. It was over!’: Sir Robert Thompson, the United States and the War in Vietnam, 1961-1973
Natalie Turner, ‘Paradises of the Damned’ Opium, Hazy Identities & the City in Nineteenth- Century London and Paris
Christine Marie Walsh, The United States Acceptance of Neutralisation in Laos and its Rejection in Vietnam, 1961-1962
Thérese Whyte, The British Response to the Irish Declaration of the Republic 1948-1949
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2006 – 2007
Daniel Agnew, The Failure of Diplomacy: An examination of American policy in the weeks prior to the outbreak of the Arab-Israeli War of June 1967
Donal Barry, Sir James Ware and Robert Ware in Context: A familial case study on the development of Irish Protestant historial publications in the seventeenth-century
Louise Bolster, ‘Things will never be the same again’ – Political pragmatism, protest and a prototype for the future: The meetings of Sean Lemass and Terence O’Neill, 1965
Clare Frances Brophy, Showbands. The Musical Accompaniment to Ireland’s Metamorphosis 1950-1970
Gemma Bruton, The Iran Contra Affair: A Constitutional Crisis or a Political Scandal?
Paul Bryce, Anglo-Irish Relations 1932-1936: The Roles of Joseph Walshe and John Dulanty
Sebastian Clare, Intelligence co-operation between the British and Irish governments: The liaison between MI5 and G2, 1938-1941
Mary Comaskey. Woman in Hagiography and the Laws
Helena Cotter, ‘A Phoney Affair’. Anglo-French relations during the Suez Crisis, 1956
Hannah Deasy, Between Scylla and Charybdis: Elle Magazine and French Images of the Soviet Union and America during the 1950s
Lyndsey Drea, The Architects of Jack Lynch’s Northern Ireland Policy, 1968-72; TK Whitaker, Eamon Gallagher and Patrick Hillery
Macdara Dwyer, Comparative Interventions: The United States Interventions in Lebanon: 1958 and 1982-1984
Matthew Finn, From Portsmouth Treaty to Baghdad Pact. A Study of Iraq and the Relationship with Britain 1948-1955
Jack Kavanagh, A ‘Just Equilibrium’? Castlereagh’s Concept of the Balance of Power at the Congress of Vienna
Conor Lally, The Irish Government’s Response to Internment, August 1971-February 1972
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Niall McCarthy, An Irish Experience: The Coastwatching Service in Curragh Command, 1939-45
Simon McCormack, The General and the President: Aspects of Franco-American Relations 1961-63
Susan McDermott ,An Assessment of the Influence of Ian Paisley on the Ulster Unionist Party 1963-69.
Lynn McDevitt, ‘To Win the Minds of Men’. The US Culture War against Communism in Post-war France
Aidan McKelvey, The Opening of the Road to Cathay and the Development of European Thought and Knowledge in Relation to China During the Late Thirteenth and Early Fourteenth Centuries
Rina N Mangurten, Ireland, the United Nations, and the Middle East: The Summer of 1967 and the Search for Peace
Amanda O’Connor, British Reaction to Ostpolitik 1966-1972
Michael O’Hanlon, The Tain Material: Propaganda through the Ages
Gregg O’Neill, ‘All the World’s a Stage’. Ireland, Britain and the Northern Ireland Crisis at the United Nations, April to September 1969
Stephanie O’Sullivan, President Nixon’s decision to enter Cambodia in 1970 as part of the Vietnam War: Action and Reaction
Conor Tobin, The Influence of Domestic Politics on the Foreign Policy of the Eisenhower Administration leading up to the Suez Crisis
Fiona Yvonne Pike, Tearing down the Wall: The Role of the Masses in the Collapse of the GDR
Gary Quinn, Keeping the Door Ajar: George H W Bush, Tiannamen Square and US Policy towards China in 1989
Paul Rice, Voyaging in the Norse Atlantic: Ships and Exploration in the Viking West
Brenda Rooney, ‘The Friend of my Enemy is my Friend, Too’. A study of the relationship between Henry Kissinger and Anwar el-Sadat
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Anton Maximilian Schueller, Making Headlines: The Role of the Press in the 1946 Dublin Teachers’ Strike
Keith Smith, Frederick II and Italy, 1220-1250: Imperial Policy and Italian Response
Alanna Sylver-O’Malley, The Machiavellis of Peace
Rachel Taaffe, The Illegitimate Children of Charles II, King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1660-1685
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2005 – 2006
Killian Barry, Situating the Hungarian Revolution: Managing the Repercussions of Post- Stalinist Foreign Policy – Dr Judith Devlin
Kathy Behan, Powerful Decoration: Aspects of Power and Display in Early Medieval Ireland – Mr Charles Doherty
Adrian Boland, The Limited War, President Truman and the removal of Douglas MacArthur – Professor Mitch Lerner
Brian Brady, From Bloody Sunday to the collapse of Stormont: the origins of Direct Rule in Northern Ireland – Professor Ronan Fanning
Simon Brewer, From the depression to the Cold War: A look at Radicalism in Hollywood – Professor Mitch Lerner
Jonathan Browne, "Never has so much been owed by so many to so few", The story of the Battle of Britain – Dr Christoph Muller
Fiona Burns, Force-feeding as an instrument of British Policy in dealing with the IRA hunger strikes 1973-1974 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Elaine Byrne, The Irish Government and the Council of Ireland, January-May 1974 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Keith Clarges, Dogs of the Lord & the Insane Belief: Dominicans & Cathars in Languedoc, c.1200-c1245 – Dr Edward Coleman
Sarah Cogavin, 'Fighting the Birthrate of a nation'. The My Lai Massacre and body count in the Vietnam War – Professor Liam Kennedy
David Connaughton, The media coverage of the Falklands war 1982 – Dr Richard Aldous
Fiona Connolly, Dropping the atomic bomb: A political or a military occasion? – Professor Mitch Lerner
Etaoin Catherine Corcoran, 'A blend of firmness and lenity': A study of the Carlow Courts Martial of 1798-99 – Professor Thomas Bartlett
Declan Crean, A Cold War in Nicaragua, The Case of the 1984 Nicaraguan Presidential Election - Professor Mitch Lerner
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Janet Dean, Messenger boy or key negotiator? Winthrop Aldrich: Ambassador to London for the United States of America during the Suez Crisis, 1956 - Dr Richard Aldous
Stephen Delahunty, The letters of Pope Gregory IX (1227-1241) and Ireland – Dr Michael Staunton Paul Dillon, From Saxon Magnates to Western Emperors: The Ottonian Dynasty 912-973 – Dr Edward Coleman
Ivan Dunne, The failure of the Western Design led to an alteration in the purpose of the major-generals – Dr John McCafferty
Leann Gordon, The Irish Government's Response to the Prospect of British Withdrawal 1974 to 1975 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Brendan Griffin, An Irish Perspective on the End of the Cold War – Professor Liam Kennedy
David Francis Hamlon, The change in Irish Government policy on the Council of Ireland that was brought about by the election of the Fine Gael-Labour coalition in Feb 1973 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Kieran Michael Hegarty, The Tripartite Conference at Chequers, September 26-28th 1971 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Christopher Jones, The place of religion in the Carolingian expansion east of the Rhine in the eighth century – Professor Edward James
Matthew Kellegher, The Impact upon Inter-Governmental Relations between the British and Irish Governments – Professor Ronan Fanning
Oisin Seamus Kelly, County Louth: the Irish political revolution and the 1918 general election – Professor Michael Laffan
Mairead Kennedy, Governmental Reactions to the Civil Rights Campaign in Northern Ireland, August 1968-April 1969 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Ann Marie Long, A Critical Study of the Idea of Fate in Viking-Age Ireland – Professor Edward James
Fergus Lynch, 'From Ambivalence to Alliance' The Legacy of John F. Kennedy on U.S.- Israeli Relations – Professor Maurice Bric
Mary Manning, The triumph of Trumanism – Professor Mitch Lerner
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Niamh Maloney, The Early Viking age in Scotland and Ireland: An examination of the differences in and influences on settlement patterns – Mr Charles Doherty
Warren Montgomery, How is Palladius portrayed in the seventh-century Patrician sources? – Mr Charles Doherty John Mulqueen, John de Courcy Ireland: an Irish left-wing voice – Professor Michael Laffan
Michelle Muller, The portrayal of Germany in The Times 1933-1939 – Dr Christoph Muller
Gerard Patrick Noonan, A History of the North-Eastern Boundary Bureau, 1922-5 – Professor Michael Laffan
William O’Brien, The political implications of Patrick Hillery's visit to the Falls Road on 6 July 1970 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Colm O’Connor, Harry Truman and the Creation of Israel – Professor Mitch Lerner
John Edward O’Grady, The Bao Dai Experiment and the American Entanglement in French Indochina – Professor Hugh Gough
Mark O’Keefe, The Irish government and the S.D.L.P.: March-December 1973 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Sean Maurice O’Neill, A Big revolution in a small country. Revolution, execution and invasion in Grenada – Professor Mitch Lerner
William O’Reilly, Electoral Propaganda 1945-1948 with Specific Reference to Clann na Poblachta – Professor Michael Laffan
Kenneth Page, The Decisions behind the Cuban Missile Crisis: Why they were made – Dr Richard Aldous
Paul Martin Quigley, The Deterioration of the U.S. - Japanese relationship during the Vietnam War Era – Professor Mitch Lerner
Stephen Benjamin Ryan, 'The effect of the 1968 West German student revolution on late twentieth century German foreign policy' – Dr Christoph Muller
Patrick Walsh, 'The Dark Alliance' A historiographical analysis of the link between the CIA and narcotics – Professor Mitch Lerner
Ben John Weatherill, The United States, Soviet Union and the Origins of the Korean War 1947-1950 – Professor Michael Laffan
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Peter Richard Whitty, The challenge of Bolshevism at the Paris peace conference 1919: how was it dealt with by the allied delegates? – Dr Judith Devlin
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2004 – 2005
Stephen Baker, The Irish Labour Party, 1923-27 – Dr Michael Laffan
Karl Browne, Medieval Navan – Professor Howard Clarke
Brian Burke, Paying the Price: The Kennedy Administration and the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, August-November 1963 – Professor Lisa Cobbs Hoffmann
Sarah Campbell, Civil rights or catholic rights? An examination of housing discrimination and the civil rights movement in Co Tyrone 1962-1968 – Dr Roisin Higgins
Lisa Marie Clancy, 'The Owl and the Buck' Print-Culture, Visual-Culture and the Transmission of Stereotypes, 1658-1688' – Dr Jason McElligott
Aiden Coleman, The ephemeral form of patronage: Wentworth in Ireland 1632-1641 – Dr John McCafferty
Andrew Coleman, Parliamentary Representation in Eighteenth Century Ireland: A Case Study of Five Counties – Dr Charles Ivar McGrath
Gordon Corrigan, British Intervention in Greece 1945-47 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Rebecca Dolan, Familial Relations in Táin Bó Cuailnge and Táin Bó Fraích – Dr Elva Johnston
Aaron Donaghy, The Naumann Affair of 1953 A Case Study of British Intervention in Semi- sovereign West Germany – Dr Christoph Muller
Paul Duggan, The Effect of the Blitz on British Civilian Morale – Dr Richard Aldous
Emmet Dunphy, An Analysis of Charlemagne's Saxon War – Professor Edward James
Christopher Farrell, The uses of the Old and New Testaments during the debate over Liberty of Conscience, 1644-1649 – Dr Jason McElligott
Ciarán Flynn, Macmillan, Lloyd and the Suez Canal Crisis – Dr Richard Aldous
Sean Forkan, The History of the Irish Republican Army Organisation (I.R.A.O.) – Dr Michael Laffan
Danielle Friel, The Donegal Protestant Experience 1921-26 – Dr Roisin Higgins
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Eoin Jennings, From Berlin to Baghdad: The United States and the New World Order, 1989- 1991 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Neil Johnston, Catholic Courtier and Controversialist: A portrayal of Peter Talbot, Archbishop of Dublin c. 1618-1680' – Dr Declan Downey
Niamh Gannon, Reactions from the Church, Medicine, the Arts, Government and Society to the Great Pestilence of 1348 – Professor Seymour Phillips
Elizabeth Gibbons, Why 1215? The Making of Annual Confession for the Laity – Dr Edward Coleman
Stephen Hynes, Genoese Trade of the Twelfth Century – Professor Seymour Phillips
Mary Keane, The Life and Times of Maria Teresa Mulally – Professor Thomas Bartlett
Brian Larkin, Ireland's Second EEC Application - a Chapter in Irish Foreign Policy – Dr Maurice Bric
Daire Lee, Torch – Dr Richard Aldous
Eoin MacAodha, The Background, Rationale and Circumstances of the Black September Attack on the Munich 1972 Olympics – Professor Mark Lytle
Barry McCarron, United States intervention along the Taiwan Strait, 1950-1960 – Dr Declan Downey
Richard McElligott, 'A War Without Fronts', Insurgency and Counter - Insurgency in Ireland and Spain in the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Period – Professor Thomas Bartlett
Luan McKenna, Reagan's promotion of democracy, Case Study: Nicaragua – Professor Mark Lytle
Cormac McQuinn, Crude Diplomat or Slick Operator? An Assessment of the Role of Henry Kissinger in the Resolution of the 1973-4 Oil Crisis – Professor Mark Lytle
Lisa Madsen, 'Witchcraft and Inchantment is the Cloke of Ignorance':Demonology versus Scepticisim, reginal Scot and his Discoverie of Witchcraft –
Tara Maguire, Expectations, stereotypes and 'breaking the mould':Early modern women as a realistic embodiment of a patriarchal ideal – Dr John McCafferty
Keith Mallon, How to handle victory – Dr Richard Aldous
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Elina Mantere, The Scandinavians in Finland during the Viking Age How the relations between the Finns and the Swedes have been interpreted before and after 1917 in Finland – Professor Howard Clarke
Peter Murphy, Anthony Eden and Collusion at Sèvres - Dr Richard Aldous
Paul O’Brien, The Influence of Leo Strauss on American Neo-Conservative Foreign Policy – Professor Ronan Fanning
Kevin O’Connor, The Civil War Legacy in the 1932 Election – Dr Michael Laffan
Ruaidhri O’Connor, Why De Gaulle Said No: The Course of Ireland's First Application to the EEC 1961-63 – Professor Hugh Gough
Jamie O’Hare, Unpeople - Human Rights Abuse in British Foreign Policy – Professor Mark Lytle
George O’Keeffe, The Brink of Conflict: Military Planning in Northern Rhodesia, February 1961 – Dr Richard Aldous
Emma O’Kelly, Scottish Church and the Papacy c. 1192-1329 – Professor Seymour Phillips
James O’Reilly, The Clash of Ideologies at the Battle of Stalingrad – Dr Judith Devlin
Derrick O’Rourke, Richard I and Saladin through medieval eyes - Dr Liudmila Sharipova
Eoin Ryan, Ireland's military and diplomatic reation to the fourth Arab-Israeli war – Professor Ronan Fanning
Patrick O’Shea, Dublin press coverage of the political crisis 1970-71 – Dr Michael Laffan
Justin Stover, Reluctant Enemies: Republican Mentalities in post-Treaty Ireland 1922-1924 – Dr Michael Laffan
Erin Thomas, The Settling of the Anglo-American Relationship: Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nassau Conference – Dr Maurice Bric
Andrew Thorne, 'Fight to the end but lose? The Irish Government's request for a United Nations peacekeeping force for Northern Ireland – Professor Ronan Fanning
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2003 – 2004
Sandra Bothwell, Ulster Presbyterianism A Legacy of Scottish migration – Dr John McCafferty
Daniel Campion, At the Roots of the 'Special Relationship' Harold Macmillan and Robert Murphy, January 1943-May 1944 – Dr Richard Aldous
Denis Casey, Admonan of Ioan and Roayl Ordination: Redefining Medieval Kingship in a Biblical Context – Dr Elva Johnston
John Clarke, The British Indian Ocean Territory: Events and policies leading to the creation of a new colony – Dr Richard Aldous
Derek Connolly, 'What is the cheapest way in which we can keep face with the world?': British Defence Policy, Treasury Interference and the Anglo-german Naval Agreement of 1935 – Dr William Mulligan
Niamh Cullen, The Cultural Politics of Piero Gobetti A Study of IlvBaretti 1924-1926 – Dr David Kerr
Elizabeth Dawson, Brigit in Vita Prima A native Christian saint – Dr Elva Johnston
Aindriu De Faoite, Blood, Sex and Tears A discussion of the importance of Longes Mac nUislenn in the twelfth century and why it may have been recorded in the Book of Leinster – Mr Charles Doherty
David Doyle, Healing the Nation? The resurrection of Aonach Tailteann and the poisonous legacy of the Irish Civil War – Dr Michael Laffan
Sarah Fahy, 'The Shadow of Racism and Australia's turn to International Busyness 1937- 1946' – Professor Nicholas Brown
Daniel Finn, Siegfried Kracauer, Weimar Ciname, and the politics of mass culture – Dr David Kerr
Peter Flanagan, The career of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, with particular reference to the Great Contract of 1610 – Dr Elaine McKay
Ian Goulding, The Early Rules of the Gaelic Athletic Association, An Eliasian Study – Dr David Kerr
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Aaron Jacobson, Irish political reaction to the repercussions of the Cuban missile crisis – Dr Michael Laffan
Andrew Kelly, The Battle of Cambrai A Study in Military Innovation and Incompetence – Dr William Mulligan
Louise Kelly, Relics in Seventh Century Ireland – Mr Charles Doherty
Thomas Kelly, Victor Serge Novelist of the Revolution – Dr David Kerr
Oisin Kenny, The Boulevard du Temple and the Palais-Royal: Changes in nineteenth-century Paris before Haussmann – Dr David Kerr
Cathal Lee, Anglo-Spanish relations 1966-167: The Question of Gibraltar and the decision of the British Government to hold a Referendum – Dr Jane Toomey
Emma Lyons, Law versus reality: female inheritance in seventeenth-century Ireland – Dr Tadhg Ó’hAnnracháin
Shane McCorristine, Spectres of Lautreamont in Les Chants de Maldoror and Beyond – Dr David Kerr
Jim McCrohan, The collapse of an urban elite: How Waterford's merchant rulers lost power and the city suffered the loss of its pre-eminent position c.1550-c.1660 – Dr Eamon O’Flaherty
Andrew McGuinness, 'Churchill, the diehards and the India question: 1930-1935 – Dr Richard Aldous
Ciaran McMahon, The Warsaw Treaty December 1970 Will Brandt and Ostpolitik Relations between Wet Germany and Poland – Dr William Mulligan
Kate Mooney, Graffiti in Ireland The Emergence and Development of a Subculture – Dr David Kerr
Una Newell, Awakening the West? Galway 1916-18 – Dr Michael Laffan
Clare Ni Cholmain, Decline and development in the West of Ireland 1960-1973 – Professor Mary Daly
Eamonn Norris, Irish Press Coverage of the algerian War, 1954-62 – Professor Mary Daly
Stephen O’Brien, The Irish government and U.N.F.I.CYP 1964-73 – Dr Michael Laffan
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Frank O’Flynn, US Intelligence and Communist Activity in the Gutemalan Administration of Jacabo Arbenz: 1950-1954 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Mary O’Keeffe, By virtue of the 1921 Anglo-Irish Treaty the Irish Free State became a British Dominion. Membership of the League of Nations gave the Irish Free State the means of achieving independence in external affairs – Professor Mary Daly
Kate Proctor, The proposed marriage between Elizabeth I and the Duke of Anjoy, c.1579- 1583 – Dr Eamon O’Flaherty
Susan Ricketts, 'A Dreadful Conflagration': The Times of London and its reporting of the 1798 Rebellion – Professor Thomas Bartlett
Aoife Ruane, Conduct, Manners and Morality in Early Modern England: 1660-1700 – Dr Elaine McKay
John Terence Stewart, Drennan and the Catholics: A Study of Dr William Drennan's views on the Catholic Question, 1776-1819 – Professor Thomas Bartlett
Anders Tangvald, Salisbury, the Straits and Bulgaria British foreign policy in the Straits region and the shaping of modern Bulgaria – Dr William Mulligan
Brian Travers, Diplomatic relations between Ireland and Spain 1945-1959 – Professor Ronan Fanning
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Dissertations submitted for academic year 2002 – 2003
Melissa Broderick, The Role of Geisi in Togail Bruidne Da Derga – Mr Charles Doherty
Erin Burns, Reinforcing the Rising: The Irish National Aid and Volunteers Dependants Fund 1916-17 – Dr Michael Laffan
Mary Catherine Carroll, 'Things could have been much worse.' - Northern Ireland, 1972 - The implications for Britain's relationship with the United States – Professor Ronan Fanning
John Dorney, Florence MacCarthy and the conquest of Gaelic Munster, 1560-1640 – Dr John McCafferty
Gillian Finan, The Holy Wells of County Kildare – Dr John McCafferty
Carly Geeza, A Historiographical Look at the Dual Character of Sir Edward Carson: The Division between Lawyer and Politician – Dr Michael Laffan
Irial Glynn, 'An unhappy marriage of personalities: Whitehall's relationship with Wavell during his time as Viceroy to India, 1943-47' – Dr Richard Aldous
Liam Griffin, The Anglo-Norman colonies in North and South Wexford in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries – Professor Seymour Phillips
Lisa Marie Griffin, Social mobility in the Eighteenth-Century Protestant Ascendancy: The Grierson family and the King's Printer's Patent – Dr Michael Brown
Diarmuid Hanifin, The Lord Lieutenancy of the Earl of Rochester, 1700-1703: A Forgotten Viceroy? – Dr Ivar McGrath
Declan Hanney, Patrick McGilligan and the Shannon Scheme – Dr Michael Laffan
Pierce Henebry, Thomas Wentworth and his reform of the Irish army – Dr John McCafferty
Kara Howgate-Mello, Saints and Sanctuary: Protection of Innocents in Adomnán's Law and the Life of St Columba – Mr Charles Doherty
Andrew James Kellet, ‘The Priest King’, Eamon de Valera and the use of the cult of personality on Irish public occasions, 1932-1943 – Dr Michael Laffan
Ann-Marie Kilgallon, Irish-French Relations 1916-1925 – Dr David Kerr
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Patrick Anthony Leavy, Towards the Ulster Covenant - Newspaper coverage of the Home Rule question in its formative phase – Dr Michael Laffan
Emma MacBride, American friends of Irish neturality: Irish American opinion and Irish neutrality, November 1940 - December1941 – Professor Ronan Fanning
Shaun McDaid, '"White Diplomacy": The Foreign Office, Abyssinia and the origins of appeasement policy, 1934-36.' – Professor Ronan Fanning
John McEvoy, The consequences of Barnaby Fitzpatrick's relationship with Edward VI – Dr Declan Downey
Aoife McGonigle, The importance of the MacMahon Family of Monaghan in late Sixteenth Century Ireland – Dr Clodagh Tait
Eamonn Óg McGrattan, 'Les témoins du passé', Memory, history and French Rhineland propaganda – Dr William Mulligan
Barbara Milne, The Irish reaction to the Cyprus quest for independence 1956-1959 – Dr Michael Laffan
Laura Elizabeth Moran, Irish Industrial Schools for Boys: 1869-1970: (Artane Industrial School) – Professor Mary Daly
Richard Morkan, French involvement in the Valtelline Affair (1601-1637) – Dr Eamon O’Flaherty
Maura-Jane Nulty, From home to hospital: The increasing popularity of hospital births in 1950s Dublin – Porfessor Mary Daly
Ruairi O’Brien, The British government under Harold Macmillan and the exodus from empire in Africa, 1959-1961 – Dr Richard Aldous
John Poole, The Gaelic printing press at Louvain 1611-1728 – Dr Declan Downey
Eoin Purcell, General George Monck and the Restoration of Charles Stuart October 1659- May 1660 – Dr John McCafferty
Johnny Ryan, Principled Failure? British diplomacy with Rhodesia, 1971-1972 – Dr Richard Aldous
Catherine Sharkey, Education for the home. The promotion of domestic economy in rural Ireland 1900-1950 – Professor Mary Daly
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Frances Tiernan, Sailing against the tide: An assessment of Britain's entry into the European Economic Community under the Heath Government 1970-1972 – Professor Ronan Fanning / Dr Jane Toomey
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
MA Theses 2014-2015
Diarmuid Bolger, “The Grumpy Archbishop”: John Charles McQuaid and the Yugoslavia Football Controversy
Shane Browne, Colonel Maurice Moore and the decline of the National Volunteers: August 1914-December 1915
Krystal Carmichael, Bretha Dein Chécht and Bretha Crólige: Evidence for native medieval practice in early medieval Ireland
Margaret Clarkin, From the Frying Pan into the Fire? The Impact of the French Fronde (1648-1653) on English Civil War Exiles
Helen Cunningham, Charity, Faith and Gender: An Analysis of the Protestant Orphan Society and its Widows, 19120s-1930s
Enda Flanagan, British Perceptions towards Austria and Prussia during the Austro-Prussion War, 1865-66
Alexandra Furbee, The Depiction of Nuns in Modern Laundries in Films and Drama, 1992- 2013
Niamh Hopper, King Richard III: The Ideal Image of a Sixteenth Century Monster
Patricia Keary, Print and a Culture of Restraint: Changing Behaviour in Early-Modern England, 1550-1650
Garry Kelly, Irish Nationalism and the Amnesty Movement of 1889-1898
David Kilgannon, ‘How to survive a plague’: AIDS activism and Ireland, 1983-1989 –Dr Catherine Cox
Adam Ladd, An Indelible Existence: The Rise and Fall of the Irish Republican Congress
Ellen Larkin, Brendan Corish: Leading the Opposition to EEC membership, 1961-1972?
Aoibhe McCarthy, ‘A Doctor’s Dilemma’: An examination of the Role of the Medical Profession in the Abortion Debate, 1981-1983
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Emma McHugh, ‘Crisis of identity at Stormont’: The debate on Dominion status within the Ulster Unionist Party, 1945-1948
Cáelán Moreland, Swing seat and the politics of the street: orange riot and reaction in west Belfast, 1885-87
James Moriarty, Fever and cholera in the capital: An Institutional Perspective on the Famine in Dublin 1847-1849
Jack Morris, Throwing Light on the Deeds of Darkness: Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Prison and the Media
Liam Mulcahy-Forbes, Legal Imperialism in Egypt: Language, the Law and Urban Violence 1845-1882
Riain Ó Cianaigh, Letterkenny: A micro history of its general environs from the late sixth century until the early seventeenth century
Fergus O’Farrell, Cathal Brugha: Peter the Painter, Candlestick Maker, 1916-1921
Erin O’Sullivan, ‘My evidence to give’: Evolving the historical narrative of the revolutionary generation through the life and writings of Máire Comerford
Kubra Ozermis, The Poetry of Bloody Sunday: A (Re-)Construction of the Victims’ Narrative
Dawn Slattery, The Holocaust refugee crisis: Finding a home in Palestine
Kristina Soden, The Road to Historical Infamy Die Tat and the Fate of the Weimar Republic: A Re-appraisal
Zachary Twamley, ‘Honour at Stake’: The Significance of Honour within Britain’s Entry into the First World War
Andrew Walsh, ‘Great Hatred Little Room’: Border Security and Anglo-Irish Relations, 1969-1975
Eoin Walsh, The War of Independence in County Kilkenny: Conflict, Politics and People
Yuanding Wang, To East or West? Henry II, England, Ireland, Anjou and the Crusades. A case study of princely participation in the first century of the crusading movement
MA Dissertations – UCD School of History and Archives
Yanli Xie, The Introduction of the Railway into China: Cultural perspectives on technology transfer and Sino-British relations in the 1870’s