• Spouses, spies and subterfuge: the role and experience of women during the Nine Years War (1593-1603) 

  O'Neill, James (Royal Irish Academy, 2021-01)

  Women provided domestic, commercial and medical support to both English and Irish armies during the Nine Years War (1593-1603). Consequently, they were exposed to the perils of war and suffered accordingly. They lived and ...
• Cork Harbour Commissioners in the nineteenth century: governance, infrastructure and revenue 

  McCarthy, Tom (University College Cork, 2020-10-08)

  Cork, the port and harbour will be examined in terms of its economic history in the 19th century, with emphasis on matters of governance, infrastructure, and finances. This thesis presents an analysis and evaluation of ...
• A political and intellectual portrait of Albertino Mussato 

  McCabe, Aislinn (University College Cork, 2019-09-30)

  Albertino Mussato (1261-1329) was a Paduan poet, historian and politician whose Latin writings reveal a complex and ever-evolving political outlook and intellectual persona, examination of which is the central concern of ...
• Irish exorcists in the Catholic Reformation 

  O'Donnell, Alma (University College Cork, 2020-04-27)

  This thesis analyses the work of Irish exorcists during the Catholic Reformation and examines the role that exorcism played in the Catholic missions in Ireland throughout the seventeenth century. Recent scholarship of Irish ...
• Support the Troops: Gulf War homecomings and a new politics of military celebration 

  Fitzgerald, David (Cambridge University Press, 2019-02-13)

  The celebrations that took place in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War of 1991 stood out as the largest seen in the United States since the end of World War II, as hundreds of thousands of troops marched in triumphant ...

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