research on irish history in irish universities, 1962-3

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Research on Irish History in Irish Universities, 1962-3Source: Irish Historical Studies, Vol. 13, No. 51 (Mar., 1963), pp. 254-257Published by: Irish Historical Studies Publications LtdStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/30021975 .

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Research on Irish history in Irish universities, i962-3

The following list gives particulars of theses on Irish historical subjects, or on subjects having a distinct bearing on Irish history, which were

successfully completed during 1962, or were in progress in January 1963, in the universities of Ireland. The information has been supplied directly by the responsible supervisors.

PART I: THESES COMPLETED IN 1962

Dublin-Trinity College PH.D. N. D. Atkinson. Sir Laurence Parsons, second earl of Rosse, 1756-1841.

Supervisor: Professor T. W. Moody.

Kenneth Milne. The Irish municipal corporations in the eighteenth century.

Supervisor: Dr R. B. McDowell.

Dublin-Universtity College M.A. Rev. Patrick Ryan, C.S.Sp. The life of Miler McGrath, archbishop

of Cashel. Rev. Patrick O'Donoghue. The tithe question, 1830-32.

Supervisor: Professor R. D. Edwards.

Stephen L. Spain. William O'Brien, 19go3-o. Supervisor: Professor T. D. Williams.

PART II: THESES IN PROGRESS IN JANUARY i963

Belfast-Queen's University PH.D. W. E. Coe. The economic history of the engineering industry in the

north of Ireland to I9I4. H. D. Gribbon. The development of water-power in Ulster. E. B. McGuire. The Irish distilling industry in the nineteenth century.

Supervisor: Dr K. H. Connell. 254



RESEARCH ON IRISH HISTORY, I962-3 255 M.A. S. G. Hanna. The Moravian settlement at Gracehill.

Supervisor: Professor J. C. Beckett.

J. A. McBride. The encumbered estates act, 1848. Supervisors: Professor J. C. Beckett and Dr K. H. Connell.

M.Sc. (EcoN.) J. H. McNally. Irish poor law history, with special reference to Belfast.

Supervisors: Professor J. C. Beckett and Dr K. H. Connell.

Cork-University College PH.D. Rev. Edward J. Peel. Dr John Thomas Troy (1739-1823): a biography.

Supervisor: Professor James Hogan.

James Hurley. A critical analysis of the Young Ireland movement. Supervisor: Professor Seamus Pender.

M.A. Bartholomew Desmond. The Desmond rebellion, 1579-83. John J. McCarthy. Edmund Burke and religious toleration, with

special reference to Ireland. Michael O'Leary. The life and times of James ('Jim') Larkin.

Supervisor: Professor James Hogan.

Dublin-Trinity College PH.D. James Hartin. The church in the government of Norman Ireland.

Supervisor: Professor A. J. Otway-Ruthven.

D. G. White. Elizabethan plantations in Ireland. Supervisor: Professor T. W. Moody.

L. J. Arnold. The restoration land settlement in the counties of Dublin and Wicklow, I66o-85-

Martin Prescott. The Irish in France, I690-1734- Supervisor: Dr J. G. Simms.

Joseph Hernon. Irish public opinion and the American civil war. Supervisor: Professor T. W. Moody.

J. Howard Robinson. History of chartered accountancy in Ireland. D. W. Harkness. The Irish Free State and its relations with the British

Empire and Commonwealth, 1922-32. Supervisor; Dr F, S. L. Lyons,



256 RESEARCH ON IRISH HISTORY, 1962-3 M.LITT. Peter Skelton. Irish protestantism, 1603-4I. R. J. Hunter. The Ulster plantation in the counties of Cavan and

Armagh, 1608-4I. Supervisor: Professor T. W. Moody.

Adam Loughridge. A history of the reformed presbyterian church in Ireland.

Joseph P. Starr. The enforcement of law and order in eighteenth- century Ireland.

Supervisor: Dr R. B. McDowell.

J. W. Cox. Irish public opinion and the first world war. Supervisor: Dr F. S. L. Lyons.

Dublin-University College Pw.D. John O Loan. The history of agriculture in early Ireland.

Supervisors: Rev. Professor John Ryan and Professor J. B. Ruane.

Rev. John J. Silke. The Spanish expedition to Munster, 16oI-2. Supervisor: Professor R. D. Edwards.

Sr M. Benvenuta Curtin. Daniel O'Daly, o.p., as an agent in seventeenth-century diplomacy.

Donal McCartney. Historiography and Irish politics, 1870-1922. Supervisor: Professor T. D. Williams.

M.A. Michael Millerick. The role of the Dublin parliament, 1641-9.

Supervisor: Professor T. D. Williams.

Leonard Howard. The state and the catholic church in Ireland, 1677-84. Supervisor: Mrs M. Wall.

Karl Theodore Hoppen. The influence of the Royal Society on the Oxford and Dublin Philosophical Societies, 168o-i720.

Supervisor: Professor T. D. Williams.

Sean Donlon. The monetary economy in Ireland, I800-50. Pater Doyle. Bishop J. W. Doyle ('J.K.L.') and the social question. Miss M. Barrington. The Irish reform act, I832. Joseph Lee. Irish railways to i86o. Patrick Lane. The encumbered estates act, I848. Brendan Scott. Agrarian unrest in Ireland, 1848-6o0. Robert D. Fitzsimon. Government policy and the fenians in the

eighteen sixties. Supervisor: Dr K, B, Nowlan.



RESEARCH ON IRISH HISTORY, 1962-3 257 Brendan Cahir. The influence of fenianism on Irish politics, 1870-82.

Supervisor: Professor R. D. Edwards.

John Swift. The repeal of the Irish convention act in 1879. Supervisor: Mrs M. Wall.

Catherine Shannon. The Irish local government act of z898. Patricia McCaffrey. Irish catholics and the university question,

I8o8-9go8. John J. M. Hulton. Sir Horace Plunkett and the cooperative

movement. Patrick O. Snoddy. The Irish Volunteers, I913-16.

Supervisor: Profesor T. D. Williams.

Galway-University College PH.D. John A. Claffey. Richard de Burgo, earl of Ulster.

Supervisor: Professor G. A. Hayes-McCoy.

M.A. Eamon P. Duffy. The marquis of Clanricarde as Irish lord deputy,

I650-52. Sr Rosarii Cryan. The early history of the Irish Sisters of Mercy in

Connacht. Rev. J. Doyle, O.F.M. The Irish contribution to the organization of the

catholic church in South Africa in the nineteenth century. Supervisor: Professor G. A. Hayes-McCoy.

An Br. S. 6 Cearbhaill. John Hely-Hutchinson, i724-94- MAire Ni Shidileabhain. John FitzGibbon, earl of Clare, 1749-1802. Bernadette Ni Loinsigh. Jean Baptist Lynch, baron de Montesquieu,

I749-1835. Silbhester 6 Muireadhaigh. Rdnchumainn na dtuathinach i ndeisceart

na htireann, 1760-I834. Supervisor: Sile Ni Chinn6ide.



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