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