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"We here in Ireland are not outside this struggle": the Irish Catholic Church, anti-communism and the Cold War, 1945-1965
(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 ...
Industrial finance in independent Ireland: The Trade Loans (Guarantee) Acts, 1924-1939
(2018-02-22)
This thesis examines and analyses the first industrial policy initiative undertaken in independent Ireland. The Trade Loans (Guarantee) Act, 1924, allowed the state to guarantee loans borrowed by firms for their business ...
The utopics of improvement in eighteenth-century visual representations of Irish demesnes
(NUI Galway, 2019-10-03)
Eighteenth-century Anglo-Irish society has been characterised as having a utopian structure of feeling, a common set of perceptions and values that grew out of the intellectual and pragmatic activities associated with ...
Farming in contemporary Irish fictional narratives: A critical, comparative and creative response
(NUI Galway, 2019-12-13)
This practice-in-research dissertation combines creative writing and literary criticism to explore the farm narratives that arose in Ireland due to expansionist agricultural ideologies, and by extension considers what is ...