Browsing University of Galway Theses (PhD Theses) by Subject "History"
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The Irish Folklore Commission Questionnaire System, 1936-1945
(2015-12-02)This project examines the importance of the forty-nine questionnaires issued between 1935 and 1945 by the Irish Folklore Commission. The Irish questionnaire system was modelled on the use of the collecting tool in Scandinavian ... -
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 ... -
Irish Medical Women c.1880s-1920s: the origins, education and careers of early women medical graduates from Irish institutions
(2010)This thesis examines the history of women in medicine in Ireland from the 1880s to the 1920s. It argues that Irish institutions in the period demonstrated more favourable attitudes than their British counterparts towards ... -
Irish perceptions of national identity in Austria-Hungary and its small successor states, 1914-1945
(2015-09-28)This thesis sets out to explore Irish perceptions of and connections with the Dual Monarchy and its successor states, spanning from 1914 until 1945, with the intention of demonstrating the significance of small nations in ... -
Irish planters, Atlantic merchants: the development of St. Croix, Danish West Indies, 1750-1766
(2011-05)The West Indian island of St. Croix became a colony of the Kingdom of DenmarkNorway in 1733.1 Despite this, it remained undeveloped until the late 1740s when investment in the large-scale production of sugarcane began in ... -
Irish soldiers in Risorgimento Italy and Civil War America: Nineteenth-century Irish nation-building in transnational and comparative perspective
(2018-01-18)This study investigates Irishmen who served as soldiers in the Italian Risorgimento and the American Civil War, and their role in Irish nation-building in the mid-nineteenth century. In the first section, the main focus ... -
James Larkin and the British, American and Irish Free State Intelligence Services: 1914-1924
(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 ... -
The legacy of the Irish Parliamentary Party in Independent Ireland, 1922-49
(2016)This study provides the first detailed analysis of the influence and persistence of Irish Party individuals, organisations and political culture in independent Ireland (1922-49). While many former followers remained ... -
Lord Bute and eighteenth-century science and patronage
(NUI Galway, 2018-08-03)John Stuart, third Earl of Bute, was born in May 1713 at Parliament Square, Edinburgh, the eldest son of James, second Earl of Bute (1689/90-1723), and his wife, Lady Anne Campbell (1692-1736). The second Earl was a supporter ... -
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 ... -
Migration and assistance: Irish unmarried mothers in Britain, 1926-1973
(NUI Galway, 2020-07-06)From 1926 to 1973, hundreds of women travelled from Ireland to Britain each year to escape the shame of unmarried motherhood in their community. As previous scholars have shown, pregnancy outside of marriage was stigmatised ... -
NGOs as national political actors during the Cold War: A comparison of Médecins Sans Frontières and Oxfam’s humanitarian programmes in the Global South, 1979-1988
(NUI Galway, 2023-09-28)This thesis examines the operations of two NGOs, Oxfam and MSF, as examples of European (Northern) humanitarian action in the Global South during the 1980s. By the end of the decade, these organisations were the most ... -
Nurses and midwives in the state sector in Galway
(2014-08-29)Abstract Much has been written about the early years of nursing and the emergence of nursing as a profession. This study continues the story of nursing and midwifery after registration and on into Ireland in the ... -
Outside the canon: theatre, social change, and archival memory
(NUI Galway, 2018-09-26)This dissertation examines the intersection of theatre and society of post-Emergency Ireland through a methodological assessment of social, performative and archival memory. It identifies a group of new Irish plays and ... -
The people’s saviours? Voluntary activism in Dublin and Toronto in the age of the influenza pandemic, 1900-1920
(NUI Galway, 2020-08-31)This study compares the nature of voluntary action in early twentieth century Dublin and Toronto, with particular reference to grassroots activism during the Influenza Pandemic of 1918-20. It focuses on the relief operations ... -
Pobal sa naoú haois déag á athrú is á nua-aoisiú: An Cheathrú Rua agus Ceantar na n-Oileán
(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 position of Irish Catholics in the Officer Corps of the British Army: 1829-1899
(NUI Galway, 2018-12-18)The chief objective of this dissertation is to attempt to answer the question of whether or not Irish Catholics formed a disproportionately small element of the Officer Corps of the British Army, in the period following ... -
The printed ballad in Ireland: a guide to the popular printing of songs in Ireland 1760-1920
(2006-02-01)This thesis is concerned with the survival, influence and scholarly use of songs printed cheaply in Ireland, from the beginnings of the trade in the middle 18th century until its decline in the early 20th. It aims to make ... -
'The Problem of the Mentally Handicapped': statutory policy, voluntary provision and intellectual disability in Ireland, 1947-84
(NUI Galway, 2020-02-12)This thesis is a historical investigation of how the state and voluntary sector responded to intellectual disability in Ireland, from the foundation of the Department of Health in 1947 to the 1984 Towards a Full Life Green ... -
Promoting 'English Civility' in Tudor Ireland: ideology and the rhetoric of difference
(2016-09-27)This study deals with the concept of ‘English civility’ as the ideology behind Tudor endeavours in sixteenth-century Ireland. While this phenomenon found frequent mention by scholars on Tudor Ireland in the form of an ...