Doctoral theses are listed in reverse date order. Click on a title to access more information in the UCC Boole Library catalogue.
Dineen, Luke M. (2019), Strikes, syndicalism and soviet: a comparative study of the labour movements in Cork and Derry, 1914-24
Boerio, Davide (2018), News, networks and discourses during the Neapolitan revolution of 1647-48 and its aftermath
McCarthy, Alan J. (2018), Press, politics and revolution: newspapers and journalism in Cork city and county, 1910-23
Coughlan, Jenny (2017), Saints and scandals: representations of elite women in the writings of Bede and Gregory of Tours
Murphy, Rachel (2017), Place, community and organisation on the Courtown Estates, 1649-1977
Sheehan, Máire A. (2016), Law, poetry and medicine: the literate professionals in autonomous Gaelic Ireland, c. 1250-c. 1630
Murphy, Steven (2016), Neutral diplomacy: an Irish perspective, 1939-1945
Egan, Simon P. (2016), The resurgence of Gaelic power in Ireland and Scotland and its wider impact, c.1350-1513
Cullinane, Liam (2016), Work, class and conflict: a comparative study of three Cork factories incorporating oral testimony
Kirwan, Luke P. (2016), Cork’s international trade during the first industrial revolution
Hanley, Kara (2016), County Cork: the experience of members of the establishment whose houses were burned in the IRA arson campaign, 1920-23
Fitzgibbon, Jacqueline (2015), Justifying jihad: US politics, propaganda and the Afghan mujahedeen
O’Sullivan, Rúairí (2015), Manifestations of heavenly light and fire and the construction of a saint: sanctity, mission and salvation in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae
Faherty, Shane (2015), Canon Ulick Bourke: cultural nationalism, popular politics, and the Knock apparition
Kidd, Geraldine (2015), Eleanor Roosevelt: supporting Zion, denying Palestine
Goek, Sara S. (2015), Farewell to Erin: oral histories of post-war Irish music and migration
O’Donoghue, Barbara (2015), Ford, Carter and Cambodia: US foreign policy and the Khmer Rouge
Mullaney, Susan M. (2014), The evolution of the medical professions in eighteenth-century Ireland: an institutional perspective
Toms, David G. (2014), A social history of sport in Cork, Tipperary and Waterford c.1880-1930
Eustace, Daniel D. (2014), State building as strategy: an interrogation of NATO’s comprehensive approach in Afghanistan between 2006 and 2011
Purcell, Emer (2014), The Vikings in ninth-century Ireland: sources and settlements
Dwyer, Michael A. (2014), Diphtheria, the public health response and the origins of the childhood immunisation programme in Ireland
O’Sullivan, Steven (2014), The Ford administration, Angola and the perception of post-Vietnam US credibility, 1974-1976
Lehane, Shane G. (2014), A history of the Irish Red Cross Society, 1939-1971
O’Riordan, Maeve (2014), Home, family and society: women of the Irish landed class, c.1860-1914: a Munster case study
Higgins-McHugh, Norah M. (2013), The tithe war in Ireland, 1830-38 with specific reference to Munster and Leinster
Heffernan, David (2013), Tudor ‘reform’ treatises and government policy in sixteenth-century Ireland
Levesque, Joseph M. A. (2013), Redefining military memorials and commemoration and how they have changed since the 19th century with a focus on Anglo-American practice
Noonan, Alan J. M. (2013), Wandering labourers: the Irish and mining throughout the United States, 1845-1920
Whelan, Michael (2013), Anglo-Irish relations in the framework of the EEC and Northern Ireland, 1969-1975
Finn, Daniel (2013), Challengers to provisional republicanism: the official republican movement, people’s democracy and the Irish republican socialist party, 1968-98
McCarthy, Kevin (2013), Exploring the Zionist evolution of Robert Briscoe: history and memory
Browne, Jennifer M. M. (2013), ‘La violence et la mauvaise foi’: context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle’s Ce que c’est la France toute catholique
Drea, Eoin (2013), Continuity and change in monetary policy and banking in Ireland 1922-43
McLaughlin, Ivan (2012), A new world a new American foreign policy: the Carter administration, Nicaragua, and the legacy of the Vietnam War, 1977-1981
Deller, Peter R. (2012), Irish officers in Wellington’s army 1808-1815
Treharne, Sally-Ann (2012), Latin America and the renewal of the special relationship under Reagan and Thatcher, 1981-1987
Steding, William J. (2012), Religion and US foreign policy during the presidencies of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan
Canning, Ruth A. (2012), War, identity, and the Pale: the old English and the 1590s crisis in Ireland
Murphy, Jonathan (2012), Anglo-Polish relations 1939-43: the War Cabinet, the Foreign Office and the Curzon Line
Convery, David M. (2012), Brigadistas: the history and memory of Irish anti-fascists in the Spanish Civil War
Lordan, Shane (2012), An Irish apostle: articulating and actualising apostolicity in th early Irish church
Sutton, Gerry (2011), Landlords: land, politics and economy during the land war, 1877-1903
Powell, Robert J. (2011), Muirchú’s Patrick: a bishop for the seventh century
Beaugé de la Roque, Pauline (2011), Les representations de l’Europe chez les elites catholiques irlandaises de 1957 à 1985: representations of Europe by Irish catholic elites (1957-1985)
O’Connor, Úna E. (2011), Emigration from the port of Cork during the long nineteenth century (1791-1914)
Wall, Martin A. (2011), Ireland and the European Economic Community 1973-1977: a small state and European integration
O’Connell, Michael (2011), The urban / rural settlement patterns of first-generation Irish migrants abroad, 1850-1921: a global perspective
Ní Bheaglaoi, Nóirín B. (2011), Editio anceps: the manuscript tradition of Giralldus Cambrensis’ Topographia Hibernica
Mac Mahon, Jason-Amedeo (2010 /2011), Ireland’s developing European relationship 1947-1963
Buckley, Sarah-Anne (2010), Protecting ‘the family cell’?: child welfare, the NSPCC and the State in Ireland 1880-1944
Fitzgerald, David (2010), Learning to forget?: the US army and counterinsurgency doctrine and practice from Vietnam to Iraq
Devoy, Fiona G. (2010), ‘A sword of Damocles’: the threat of conscription and the dynamics of Irish politics, 1914-18
Dennehy, John (2010), Tipperary and the First World War
Foley, Susan D. (2010), Bede, St. John and the liturgical year: studies on the homilies on the gospels
Martin, Michael (2010), Breaking ranks: the emergence of representative associations in the Irish armed forces 1989-1992
Cullinane, Michael P. (2010), Fighting for ‘freedom’: the language of ‘liberty’ and the US anit-imperialist movement, 1898-1909
Tjoelker, Nienke (2010), The Alithinologia (1664) by John Lynch: an edition of part of the text with introduction, translation and commentary
O’Sullivan, Kathleen J. (2009), Mathematics in the life of Éamon de Valera
Corcoran, Donal P. (2009), The Irish Free State 1922-32: government and administration
Ryan, James M. (2009), Lenin’s terror: violence in the thought of V. I. Lenin and an assessment of the significance of ideology in early Soviet state violence
O’Keeffe, Hélène (2009), A ‘lively poltergeist’ Robert Emmet: commemoration, memory and tradition, 1878-2003
Borgonovo, John M. (2009), Evolution of a revolution: Cork city, 1916-1918
Colclough, Tanya (2009), From paper army to military force?: European security challenges, the battlegroup concept and EU neutrals
Harrington, Nicholas K. (2008), The last parliamentarian: the political career of John Redmond 1881-1918
Loftus, Paul D. (2008), The crisis years: the second inter-party government and the politics of transition in Ireland, 1954-1957
Walsh, Maurice (2008), The history of Irish army intelligence, 1918-1945
McCarthy, John K. (2007), Irish involvement in the Olympic games 1896-1920: (with specific reference to its impact on nationalism and national identity)
Hutch, Avril J. (2007), When New York was Irish: the New York Irish through song 1855-1892
Mac Carron, Máirín (2007), Brides of Christ, royal marriage and the conversion of the English in Bede’s Historia ecclesiastica
Falvey, Jeremiah J. (2007), The Cork career of Sir John Arnott, 1837-1898
Curtis, Margaret P. (2006), Provincial government and administration in Jacobean Munster
Nyhan, Julianne (2006), The application of XML to the historical lexicography of Old, Middle and Early-Modern Irish: a lexicon based analysis
Creed, Fiona (2006), The challenges of coordinating EU foreign policy at the UN since 1992
Sexton, Harriet M. (2006), Clanricarde and the confederate wars: a study of Ulick Burke’s career in Ireland, 1641-1652
Jones, Siobhán (2005), Southern Irish unionism: press and politics 1860-1960
Butler, Brian (2005), The Whitby life of Gregory the Great: exegesis and hagiography
Browne, Colette (2005), Aspects of propaganda and the press in the Third Reich with special reference to foreign policy
McGowan-Doyle, Valerie (2005), The book of Howth: the old English and the Elizabethan conquest of Ireland
MacCotter, Paul (2005), Cantred and trícha cét: medieval Irish political territorial denominations
Forsythe, Westley (2005), The decline of the landed estates system in county Cork, 1815-1914
Ryan, Raymond (2005), Farmers, agriculture and politics in the Irish Free State area, 1919-1936
Murphy, Rosemarie (2005), Health services in Ireland 1939-57
O’Flynn, Derek M. (2004), The ideology and career of Saint-Just
Ryan, Siobhan Horgan (2004), The development of nursing in Ireland: 1898-1920
Murphy, Charlotte M. (2003), The Irish House of Lords, 1780-1800: politics and ideology
Fenton, Laurence (2003), Palmerston and The Times: a study of foreign policy, the press and public opinion, 1846-51
O Mahony, Colman (2003), Workhouse relief in Cork: 1838-1888
Cosgrave, Michael B. (2003), Comparative and operational aspects of peacekeeping in intra-state conflicts with particular reference to Irish participation in ONUC: 1960-64
Keogh, Niall (2003), Con Cremin and Irish foreign policy: 1935-1958
Kennedy, Christopher (2003), Genesis of the Rising 1912-1916: a transformation of Nationalist opinion?
Breathnach, Ciara (2002 /2003), A history of the Congested Districts Board of Ireland, 1891-1923
Byrne, Niall J. (2002), Jacobean Waterford: religion and politics 1603-25
O’Shea, Patrick B. (2002), Perception and reality in the modern Yugoslav conflict
Smith, Gillian M. (2002), Cartography and culture: achievements of the Irish Ordnance Survey Memoir Scheme 1824-2842
Harris, Clodagh (2002), The evolution of consociationalism in Northern Ireland
Hearne, John M. (2001), Waterford: economy, society and politics, 1780-1852
Ryan, John (Seán) M. (2001), Deer forests, game shooting and landed estates in the South West of Ireland, 1840 – 1970
Wylie, Paula L. (2001), Diplomatic recognition in Irish foreign policy 1949-63
Mullins, Elizabeth (2001), The insular reception of the Eusebian canon tables: exegesis and iconography
Cunningham, Emma (2001), Irish-Canadian diplomatic relations, 1939-1950
Broderick, Eugene P. G. (2000), Waterford’s Anglicans: religion and politics, 1819-1872
Weaver, Pamela A. (2000), Aborigines, ‘palefaces’ and new women: feminism, law and order and class in the writings of Somerville and Ross
Scully, Jeremiah A. (2000), The Atlantic archipelago from antiquity to Bede: the transformation of an image
Guerin, Timothy J. (2000), The development of the co-operative creamery movement in North Co. Cork 1900-1945: (a case study of four co-operative creamery societies)
Hull, Mark M. (2000), German military intelligence operations in Ireland: 1939-1945
Allison, Bronagh M. (1999), State policy and the revival of the Irish language, 1922-48
McNamara, Robert M. (1999), Britain’s other cold war: a study of British policy towards Nasser’s Egypt from Suez to the six day war 1957-67
Connolly, Tracey R. (1999), Emigration from independent Ireland: 1922-1970
Quinlan, Carmel (1999), Genteel revolutionaries: the lives of Anna and Thomas Haslam
Tait, Clodagh J. (1999), Harnessing corpses: death, burial, disinterment and commemoration in Ireland, c.1550-1655
Whelan, Diarmuid P. (1998), Conor Cruise O’Brien and nationalism
Larmour, Sandra Ruth (1998), Aspects of the State and female sexuality in the Irish Free State, 1922-1949
Ó Longaigh, Seosamh D. (1998), Emergency legislation in the Irish state, 1922-1948: an analysis of its evolution and use
Krasnodebska-D’Aughton, Małgorzata (1998), Images of the divine: studies in early insular text and image
Cournane, Mavis (1997), The application of SGML/TEI to the processing of complex multilingual historical texts
Nolan, Aengus (1997), Joseph Walshe and the management of Irish foreign policy, 1922-1946: a study in diplomatic and administrative history
Cierlik, Bozena (1997), A comparative analysis of some aspects of political life in Ireland and Poland 1918-1939
Horgan, John (1997), Sean Lemass Taoiseach: 1959-1966
McCarthy, Andrew J. (1996), Financial thought and policy in Ireland, 1918-45
O’Regan, Philip (1996), Archbishop William King (1650-1729) and the Constitution of Church and State
O’Herlihy, Timothy F. (1996), Anglo-German-American relations during the Berlin crisis, 1958-1961
O’Leary, Don (1996), The origins, development and decline of vocationalism in twentieth-century Ireland
Dunne, Myra D. (1996), Perception and misperception in International politics: the British application for membership of the European Economic Community, 1959 – 1963
Murphy, Brian S. (1994), Politics and ideology: Mary MacSwiney and Irish republicanism 1872-1942
Bracken, Damian (1994), The fall in Hiberno-Latin literature and Irish vernacular law
Logan, John (1992), Schooling and the promotion of literacy in nineteenth-century Ireland
Ryan, David J. (1992), An examination of diplomatic relations between the United States and Nicaragua during the Reagan presidency
Marnane, Denis G. (1991), Land ownership in South Tipperary, 1849-1903
O’Sullivan, Charles J. (1989), British policy towards the High Commission Territories in Southern Africa, 1940-1955
Luddy, Maria (1989), Women and philanthropy in nineteenth-century Ireland
Whelan, Bernadette (1989), Ireland and the Marshall plan: 1947-51
Casey, James (1988), Landownership in North Cork, 1584-1641
O’Keeffe, Patrick D. (1987), Transition from the politics of war to the politics of peace: General Richard Mulcahy, the army and the cabinet, 1919-24
Girvin, Brian (1986), Protectionism and economic development in independent Ireland 1922-1960 /
Geary, Laurence M. (1985), The plan of campaign, 1886-1891
O’Riordan, Michelle (1985), The Gaelic mind and the collapse of the Gaelic world: a study of the motifs of bardic poetry
Brockie, Edward G. P. (1985), Relations between Great Britain and the Holy See during the pontificate of Leo XIII, 1878-1903
Dinan, Desmond (1985), The politics of persuasion: British policy and French African ‘Neutrality’ 1940-1942
Knowles, Mary T. (1985), The French socialist attitude towards war, militarism and national defence 1905-1914
Kelleher, George D. (1983), Gunpowder to guided missiles: Ireland’s war industries
Browne, Pius J. A. (1981), “Egregius archiepiscopus”: a life of Michael Augustine Corrigan 1839-1902 Archbishop of New York
Buckley, Mary G. (1980), Thomas Davis: a study in nationalist philosophy
Lane, Pádraig G. (1980), The agricultural labourer in Ireland, 1850-1914
O’Shea, James P. P. (1979), The priest and politics in County Tipperary, 1850-1891
Hogan, Edmund M. (1977), The catholic missionaries and Liberia
Meagher, Mary T. C. (1970), Catholic education in the archdiocese of Cashel 1750-1841
Quinn, P. L. S. (1966), The re-entry of the Jew into England and Ireland and his re-establishment there
Bolster, Ellen (1963), Mother Mary Francis Bridgeman and the Irish Sisters of Mercy in the Crimean war
Barry, J. G. (1952), The office and function of coarb and erenagh in the Irish church