Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Author "Cunningham, John"
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Contested space: The revolutionary intersection of land hunger, memory and social justice impulse, within a rural west of Ireland community, 1793-1925 (a North Mayo case study)
Heffron, Liam Alex (NUI Galway, 2023-10-09)‘The whole of Europe is filled with the spirit of revolution. There is a deep sense not only of discontent, but of anger and revolt’, according to British Prime Minister David Lloyd George writing in Spring 1919. This ... -
Evictions on the Glinsk Creggs estate of Allan and Margaret Pollok in the 1850s
Scott, Pauline (2015-01-26)This thesis explores the background to the evictions on the Glinsk Creggs estate of Allan and Margaret Pollok in County Galway in the 1850s, and the course of the evictions in the years 1853-1856. It also examines the ... -
From Carnacon to Cape Town: An interpretive study of the transnational career of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore (1854-1939), soldier, diplomat and politician
O'Neill, Madeline Theresa (NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)In this thesis, the contextual, thematic, biography of Senator Colonel Maurice Moore, a Catholic member of the Irish Ascendancy is used as a prism through which to interpret and reflect on a military and political career ... -
From Connemara to Minnesota: The Nugent Emigration Scheme, 1880
Keoghan, Maxine Elida (2016-05-10)Abstract This study examines an assisted emigration scheme undertaken by Father James Nugent of Liverpool in June 1880. With the support of Bishop John Ireland of St Paul, Minnesota, Nugent transferred thirty-five destitute ... -
Galway Grammar School, c. 1673-1958: A Foundation Institution of the Erasmus Smith Trust
Kavanagh, Michael (NUI Galway, 2019-05-02)This thesis is concerned with Galway Grammar School, from its opening about 1673 to its closure in 1958. It provides a broader understanding of Protestant grammar school education, particularly as it operated on the periphery ... -
The history of labour in Limerick in the nineteenth century
Haugh, Dominic (NUI Galway, 2020-07-09)While there is an increasing volume of research and publications relating to labour history in Ireland in the recent period, there is still a dearth of local labour histories since Emmet O’Connor published A Labour History ... -
The Irish Transport and General Workers' Union and the labour press in Ireland, 1909-1920
Curry, James (2017-10-04)Officially launched by iconic labour leader James Larkin in January 1909, the Irish Transport and General Workers’ Union (ITGWU) quickly became the largest trade union in Ireland and a key institution in the country’s ... -
James Larkin and the British, American and Irish Free State Intelligence Services: 1914-1924
Watts, Gerard (2016-02)This thesis takes the form of a case study and is an investigation of the activities of James Larkin between October 1914 and June 1924. It is an analysis of how capitalist states dealt with Larkin in the context of his ... -
Pobal sa naoú haois déag á athrú is á nua-aoisiú: An Cheathrú Rua agus Ceantar na n-Oileán
Ní Chonghaile, Áine (NUI Galway, 2019-11-18)Léargas ar phobal daoine a lonnaigh ar chósta thiar theas Chonamara, i nGarmna agus sa gCillín, agus arbh éigean dóibh tabhairt faoi athruithe agus nua-aoisiú le linn an naoú haois déag, idir athruithe ar úinéireacht ... -
The State and the Landed Estate: order and shifting power relations in Ireland, 1815-1891
Mc Entee, Joanne (2013-01-23)The landed estate was a pivotal force in the construction of 'order' within its hinterlands in nineteenth century Ireland. The rules of the estate functioned beyond estate walls, affecting the lives of the tenantry ... -
"We here in Ireland are not outside this struggle": the Irish Catholic Church, anti-communism and the Cold War, 1945-1965
Madden, Gerard (NUI Galway, 2018-04-03)This project explores an understudied aspect of modern Irish Catholicism by examining the anticommunism of the Irish Catholic Church in the period from 1945 to 1965, which marked the early years of the Cold War. It looks ...