Browsing by Subject "Department of History"
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Fidelity to founder under the Bourbon régime: the Congregation of the Mission, 1660-1736.
(2012-09-18)On 27 September 1660, the famous French reformer Vincent de Paul died. With his demise the institute of missionaries he founded and led for thirty five years, the Congregation of the Mission, was without its steward and ... -
Irish immigrants in the Rural U.S. Slave South
(2015-09-16)This dissertation investigates the Irish immigrant experience in the rural areas of the U.S. slave South before the American Civil War. Specifically, it focuses on the analysis of the Irish immigrants' involvement with ... -
Lords of land and labour: a comparison of Antebellum Mississippi's John A. Quitman and Nineteenth-Century Ireland's Lord Clonbrock
(2015-12-17)This study investigates similarities, differences, and connections between antebellum U.S. Southern slaveholders and nineteenth-century Irish landowners. In particular, it focuses on the comparison of Mississippi’s John ... -
The Pilgrimage of Grace: Rhetoric, Reward and Retribution
(2013-05-12)The Henrician phase of the English Reformation should, arguably, be called an experiment. A reformation pre-supposes that there was a need or desire for reform and the evidence of a genuine, widespread theological conviction ... -
The Sovietisation of Poland's Baltic 'Recovered Territories', 1945-1956.
(2013-09-05)This doctoral dissertation examines the Sovietisation of Poland's Baltic provinces, a region which witnessed sweeping changes regarding its borders and population as formerly German territory was incorporated into a ... -
Women entrepreneurs and self-employed business-owners in Ireland 1922-1972
(14-01-20)This study set out to examine the prevalence of women entrepreneurs and self-employed business owners in Ireland in the early years of the Irish Free State. The historiography of Irish women has largely focussed on women ...