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Postgraduates

Theses Completed (by year)

Theses completed 2009

Research Topic Student Supervisor Registration

Laity and clergy in the Catholic renewal of Dublin c. 1750-1830

BEGADON, Cormac Dr Thomas O'Connor PhD

Childbirth and midwifery in nineteenth-century Dublin, 1850-1900

BERGIN, Julia Ann Dr Jacinta Prunty PhD

The Irish in Russia, 1690-1815: travel, gender and self-fashioning

BYRNE, Angela Dr David Lederer PhD
Land and survival in Fingal, 1630-1703 BYRNE, Desmond J.

Professor Raymond Gillespie

PhD

The Protestant Orphan Society, Dublin, 1828-1928

COOPER, June E. Dr Dympna McLoughlin PhD

Bishop Thomas Lewis O'Beirne and his church-building programme in the diocese of Meath, 1798-1823

GALLAGHER, Mary C Professor Jacqueline Hill PhD

Starting Ireland on the road to industry: Henry Ford in Cork

GRIMES, Thomas Professor R.V. Comerford PhD

The nature and development of liberal Protestantism in Waterford, 1800-1842

HEGGS, Elizabeth Professor Jacqueline Hill PhD

A re-examination of Holinshed's Irish Chronicle

HERBAGE, Patrick Professor Colm Lennon MLitt
The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908 KELLY, Aodhán Professor R.V. Comerford MLitt

Money and nationalist politics in nineteenth-century Ireland: from O'Connell to Parnell

KEYES, Michael J Professor R.V. Comerford PhD

A monastic landscape: the Cistercians in medieval Leinster

LYNCH, Bridget Mr John Bradley PhD

Gender, age and visibility: the archaeology of women and children in Ireland, 700-1200 AD

MCALISTER, Deirdre K. Mr John Bradley PhD

On 'His Magisties Orders'; social relations in West Offaly, the barony of Garrycastle 1801-1851

MURPHY, Gerard

Professor Raymond Gillespie

MLitt
Brendan Corish: a life in politics, 1945-77

NÍ CHONCHUBHAIR, Sinéad

Dr Denise Dunne MLitt
The Irish in Punjab, 1881-1921 O'LEARY, Patrick Dr Ian Speller PhD

The history of the Irish Presentation Sisters in the twentieth century: from autonomy to union

O’REILLY, Louise Dr Jacinta Prunty PhD
Sir Richard Griffith's three valuations of Ireland, 1826-1864 SMYTH, William A. Professor Jacqueline Hill PhD

Theses completed 2008

Research Topic Student Supervisor Registration
National identity construction and the popular ballad in nineteenth-century Ireland BARTER, Derek Professor R.V. Comerford PhD
The Wyndham Land Act (1903): the final solution to the Irish land question? COSGROVE, Patrick Dr Terence Dooley PhD
Protestants and Irishness in independent Ireland: an exploration CRAWFORD, Heather Professor R.V. Comerford PhD
The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland, 1850-1890 DALY, Ann Dr Dympna McLoughlin PhD
The Protestant community in Sligo, 1914 – 1949 DEIGNAN, Patrick Professor R.V. Comerford PhD
The O'Farrells of Annaly: the transformation of a late medieval lordship in early modern Ireland FARRELL, Neil Professor Raymond Gillespie MLitt
Political strategy in the service of religious and cultural modernisation: the public career of Florence Conry, c. 1560-1629 HAZARD, Benjamin Dr Thomas O'Connor PhD
The women graduates of the Royal University of Ireland, 1884 – 1900 HETHERINGTON, Nicholas Professor R.V. Comerford MLitt
The political career of Erskine Hamilton Childers, 1905 – 74 HYNES, Michael Dr Denise Dunne PhD
The social, cultural and intellectual milieu of the Burnell family of Dublin, 1562-1660. MALONE, Nessa Professor Colm Lennon PhD
State, nation and music in independent Ireland, 1922-51 MULLANEY-DIGNAM, Karol Professor R.V. Comerford PhD
The Society of St Vincent de Paul in Dublin, 1926 – 1975 NÍ CHEARBHAILL, Máire Professor Colm Lennon PhD
The Kildare women: family life, marriage and politics in early modern Ireland O'CONNOR, Carol Professor Colm Lennon PhD
The Volunteers of 1778 – 1793: iconography and identity O'CONNOR, Stephen Professor Jacqueline Hill PhD
‘Government by journalism’: Sligo and the newspaper industry, 1885-1927. WEHRLY, Mark Professor R.V. Comerford PhD
The Dublin patriciate and the reception of migrants in the seventeenth century: civic politics and newcomers WHELAN, Edward Professor Colm Lennon PhD