Sökning: "Irish History"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 28 uppsatser innehållade orden Irish History.

1. 1. Cromwell on the Moon; Or, Printing, Popularity, Persuasion : An Account of Text Reuse Patterns and Eighteenth-Century Utopian Thinking

   Magister-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för ABM

   Författare :Kira Sophie Hinderks; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Utopias; Text Reuse; Intellectual History; Eighteenth Century; ECCO; Print Culture;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis approaches eighteenth-century utopian thinking from a new methodological angle, namely by utilising the Reception Reader, an open-access text reuse detection tool, to study a sub-corpus of 39 utopian works available in ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online), the largest collection of digitised eighteenth-century texts printed in the British and Irish Isles. As the first study of text reuse in utopian thinking, this thesis shows that text reuse detection is a viable method for gaining new insights into eighteenth-century utopian thinking. LÄS MER

3. 2. An Hibernian Tale – Representations of Identity in the Irish Big House Novel

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Författare :Ludvig Bertilsson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Big House; Irish Literature; Castle Rackrent; The Real Charlotte; Maria Edgeworth; Somerville and Ross; Irish History; Irish Identity; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : The genre of the Irish “Big House” novel is one deeply entrenched in historical context. To be unaware of the setting, and the significance of identity within it, lessens the understanding and impact of character, motivations, and conflict in the text. LÄS MER

4. 3. Arctica Islandica – Annually Banded Mollusc Offers High Temporal Resolution Record Into End Of North Sea Little Ice Age

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

   Författare :Eilidh Towers; [2022]
   Nyckelord :sclerochronology; Arctica islandica; palaeoenvironments; Little Ice Age; radiocarbon reservoir effect;

   Sammanfattning : Sclerochronology affirms the well-established fact that banded growth increments in marine molluscs accurately record oscillations in climate and environment for the past millennia or more. This study considers how such records can enhance understanding of environmental shifts across the 18th to 20th centuries. LÄS MER

5. 4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind. The ‘Social Death’ of Institutionalized Women and Children and the ‘Social Amnesia’ of Irish Society in the Twentieth Century, Depicted in Forensic Evidence from the Children's Mass Grave at a former Mother and Baby Home in Tuam, Co. Galway.

   Kandidat-uppsats,

   Författare :Cecilia Ahl Falkensjö; [2021-02-26]
   Nyckelord :Dark heritage; social amnesia; social death; forensic archaeology; juvenile human remains; bioarchaeology; Irish state; Catholic Church; child abuse; human rights violation; Irish society; Irish media;

   Sammanfattning : The twentieth century was a time of social and political changes. Victims of trauma, genocide, massacres and abuse in a largely Post-Colonial era would increasingly gain recognition and places of suffering, death and pain would become places of remembrance. LÄS MER

7. 5. Brexit och Nordirland - hur ser hotbilder ut?

   L2-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Författare :Noah Waldfogel; Samuel Ekfeldt; [2021]
   Nyckelord :Threat construction Conflict in Northern Ireland Brexit Discourse analysis Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Copenhagen School; Law and Political Science;

   Sammanfattning : The present study explored how news media in Northern Ireland and Great Britain portrays threat constructions in the Northern Ireland area through the lens of the Copenhagen School of Securitisation. In fact, the Irish island has been affected by a history of identity conflict. LÄS MER