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Wolveridge's Speculum Matricis: a mirror on antiquity?
(2018-03-07)
The main aim of this study of Wolveridge’s Speculum Matricis of 1670 is to ascertain the extent to which his midwifery manual fitted within the still dominant Greek medical model, and how, if at all, it reflected influences ...
From Gaelic lordships to English counties: the Tudor transition in Leix and Offaly, c.1547-1603
(NUI Galway, 2018-05-29)
This study evaluates whether or not successive Tudor regimes effectively transformed
the Gaelic lordships of Leix and Offaly into English counties and as a direct consequence, administered these territories through the ...
Expression and silence: the language of phenomenology in Wittgenstein and Heidegger
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-31)
This thesis is a comparative study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger in relation to their engagement with the problem of phenomenological expression. My central argument is that by reading Wittgenstein in this way, we can begin ...
"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 ...
Coming 'Home': place, belonging and second-generation return migration from England to Ireland
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-28)
This thesis contributes to the growing academic interest in the second-generation of migrants and the connections they maintain with their parental places of origin. It focuses on the children of the Irish emigrants to ...
Flashes of modernity: stage design at the Abbey Theatre, 1902-1966
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-31)
Responding to Guy Julier’s call for a “knowing practice” of design studies, this doctoral thesis reveals Ireland’s negotiation with modernity through stage design. I use historian T.J. Clark’s definition of modernity as ...
A godly Sybilla, an erudite wife and a burdensome sister: the formation and representation of women’s reputations within the Hartlib Circle 1641-1661
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)
This thesis analyses the formation and representation of the reputations of three women: Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh (1615-1691); Dorothy Moore Dury (c.1612-1664); and Jean Appelius (fl.1638-1648), whose connection ...
Inventing Liberia: imagining and representing colony and nation in American, Liberian and European writing 1820-1940
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-11)
Liberia, the West African nation, whose name connotes freedom, was the creation of the American Colonisation Society (ACS) whose initial aim was to rid the United States of a growing population of ‘free people of colour.’ ...
An edition of Cath Cairn Chonaill with full apparatus and translation, together with a detailed study of its literary and cultural context
(NUI Galway, 2018-10-19)
The aim of my research has been to edit to modern standards the important Old and Middle Irish king-tale Cath Cairn Chonaill. The editorial work is accompanied by full transcripts of the manuscript witnesses on which it ...