Browsing by Subject "History"
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The commercialisation of genealogy – is it ethical for commercial businesses to charge money for access to genealogical records?
(Dublin Business School, 2017)The discipline of genealogy entails the study of family history. Ancestry was, until fairly recently, chronicled exclusively through paper records housed in physical repositories. The advent of the internet allowed records ... -
Defamiliarisation in the arts of war
(Dublin Business School, 2013)Defamiliarisation refers in general to an artistic technique that forces people to look with new eyes upon familiar subjects. Defamiliarisation emerged against the backdrop of World War I and the Russian Revolution. In ... -
Foreign Adoption in Ireland: A Case Study of the Irish-American Adoptions, 1947–1952
(SAHkartell, 2016)The Irish-American adoptions were a revolutionary way of dealing with Ireland’s ‘problem of the illegitimate child’. Ireland had long been promoted as a Catholic, and thus, a morally pure country. Having a child out of ... -
Forgetting and Remembering - Uncovering Women’s Histories at Richmond Barracks: A Public History Project
(SAHKartell, 2016)Richmond Barracks was, in 2015, designated one of the seven major restoration and/or commemorative projects to be funded by the Irish State. The Barracks, with its fascinating yet little remembered military, social and ... -
The Great War, the great mistake
(Dublin Business School, 2016)The title of this thesis is the Great War: The Great Mistake. What it aims to achieve is to explain why the war happened and what can be learned from it today. The areas that will be looked into are the underlying tensions ... -
Hysteria – mysterious disease and its journey through centuries. Four discourses and the hysteric.
(Dublin Business School, 2018)Hysteria has been deeply imbedded in the history of human kind throughout the centuries without having medically explained symptoms. With the development of modern medicine many symptoms have been found to have an ... -
The impact of air power on 20th century warfare
(Dublin Business School, 2013)This Final Year Project will trace the origins and development of the military aeroplane from the beginning of the 20th Century to its end. It will also examine the role and effect such machines had on 20th Century warfare ... -
Irish agriculture nationalised : the Dairy Disposal Company and the making of the modern Irish dairy industry
(Institute of Public Administrations, 2014)Irish Agriculture Nationalised tells the remarkable story of the Dairy Disposal Company (DDC), one of the first Irish state-sponsored bodies, established in 1927 to acquire private creameries and other agri-businesses and ... -
Leni Riefenstahl : an innovative mind
(Dublin Business School, 2012)In this dissertation I intend to examine the relationship and influence Leni Riefenstahl had on the German film industry of the 1930s and 40s. I intend to scrutinise her talents as a director and how she became one of the ... -
The longest graveyard in the world - mythology versus reality on the American westward trails
(Dublin Business School, 2013)For my Final Year Project, my aim was to get beyond the old stories and glories of the Wild West in America to get a better understanding the real people behind the myths; good and bad. As part of my research, I employed ... -
Looking and seeing : photographs of Germans after the second world war
(Dublin Business School, 2014)This Final Year Project carried out a comparison of the photography of post war Germany by Margaret Bourke-White and Tony Vaccaro. This was done in an attempt to assess the differences in approaches to the subject of ... -
The Making and Remaking of Irish History: An Interview with Vincent Comerford
(SAHKartell, 2016)On Tuesday, 26 April 2016, I sat down with former head of History at Maynooth University, Professor Vincent Comerford, to chat about the current state of the discipline, about changes within history over time and the telling ... -
The man of blood - the role of king Charles in the English civil wars and the abolition of monarchy
(Dublin Business School, 2013)There is perhaps no man who had a greater impact on England than King Charles I. The reign of the second Stuart king was tumultuous, plagued with political blunders and culminated in not just the death of a monarch but the ... -
Marginalizing Memory: Political Commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising
(SAHKartell, 2016)The recent centenary commemorations of the 1916 Easter Rising were notable for the considerable effort the Irish government put into making them inclusive. However, inclusiveness in this context masks the fact that the ... -
Ó Chéitinn go Conradh: Rising the Revivalists to 1916
(SAHKartell, 2016)Was the Gaelic League the ‘breeding ground’ for the IRB? Was the Irish language the Language of the Revolution? These parting words from the O’Rahilly (Ua Rathghaille) border on absurd black humour but like so many other ... -
Patrick Pearse: Psychobiographical Reflections on an Enigmatic, Paradoxical Personality
(SAHKartell, 2016)To date historians have focused almost exclusively on Patrick Pearse’s key role in the 1916 Easter Rising to the extent that there is much less information about his personality development and characteristics. They have ... -
A psychotherapeutic exploration of the narrative of trauma transmission from vulnerability to resilience in grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors
(Dublin Business School, 2014)Next year will mark 70 years since the liberation of the concentration camps from the Nazis. Extensive research has covered the effects of the trauma on the survivors and their children. Clinical research on survivors, ... -
A Recounting of the Stages of French Communist Resistance during World War II and its Relationship to the French Resistance Overall
(SAHKartell, 2015)This paper will recount the stages of communist resistance in France during World War Two and its relationship to the French Resistance overall, as well as analyse the effect that communist resistance in France had on the ... -
Should the Allies have bombed Auschwitz?
(Dublin Business School, 2016)Auschwitz concentration camp is synonymous with the intolerable suffering and persecution of people from different race, nationality, and cultures that culminated in the biggest mass murder in history. For decades historians ...