Dissertation Archive: Pre-1995

Before 1995, the Department of Political Science did not have a formal PhD programme, but a number of doctoral students completed their research under individual supervision. Many of these early dissertations made significant contributions to the study of politics in Ireland and beyond. Below is a list of theses completed by doctoral students admitted to the Department prior to 1995.

Please note, the links in this page are based on the most recent information available to us. The department would be pleased to hear of any updates or amendments; please send these to the department's Executive Officer at polsci@tcd.ie

2001

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor	Where Are They Now
Dr John Garry	Inside single party government: the UK Conservative Party 1975–1990	Michael Laver	Professor, Queen's University Belfast
Dr John Terrence O'Neill	The adaptation of United Nations peacekeeping in the post-Cold War international system	Patrick Keatinge

2000

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Frances Gardiner	Women's parliamentary representation in 27 western democracies: cultural, socio-economic and political obstacles to entry (Abstract)	Michael Gallagher
Dr Eilís Ward	Cosmopolitanism and Irish foreign policy: a case study analysis	Patrick Keatinge

1998

MLitt Awarded To	Title of Dissertation	Supervisor
Laure Augier-Tessier	General secretaries of Irish political parties: professionalisation of the position since the 1960s (Abstract)	Michael Marsh

1997

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Ben Tonra	Dutch, Danish and Irish foreign policy in EPC/CFSP 1970–1996	Patrick Keatinge
Dr Bill McSweeney	Security and identity: a critique of key concepts of international relations theory	Patrick Keatinge

1995

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Yvonne Galligan	Women’s interest groups and politics in Ireland: challenge and consensus	Michael Gallagher
Dr Colm McKeogh	The political realism of Reinhold Niebuhr as a normative approach to the ethics of international politics	Eddie Hyland

1992

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Derek Lynch	The regime politics of international high frequency radio broadcasting: ideas, resources and system structure	Patrick Keatinge
Dr Mark Haugaard	Structures, restructuration and social power	Eddie Hyland

1991

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Kerry Murphy Healey	The impact of cultural and legal influences on certain aspects of the judicial development of human rights in the Republic of Ireland	Basil Chubb (along with Prof Kader Asmal (Law))

1990

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Gerald McElroy	The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland crisis 1968–86	Michael Gallagher

1987

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Brigid Laffan	The operation of the European Social Fund in Ireland and Belgium	Basil Chubb

1985

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Philip Matthews	Radical Catholicism and the New Left in Britain in the 1960s	Eddie Hyland
Dr Dennis Kennedy	Northern attitudes to the independent state 1919–1949	Patrick Keatinge

1984

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Neil Collins	The City and Council Manager system of local government in the Republic of Ireland	Basil Chubb

1983

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Robert Fisk	A condition of limited warfare: Eire’s neutrality and the relationship between Dublin, Belfast and London, 1939–1945	Patrick Keatinge

1981

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Miriam Hederman O'Brien	Irish attitudes to European integration 1948–1961	Patrick Keatinge
Dr Richard Thomas	The politics of hunting: pressure group conflict and society	Basil Chubb

1980

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr John Bowman	De Valera and the Ulster question 1917–1973	Basil Chubb

1978

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Paul Dunne	The uses and limitations of systemic aids to public policy making with particular reference to the Irish public service	Basil Chubb

1977

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Guy Chauvin	The parliamentary party and the revolutionary movement in Ireland, 1912–1918	David Thornley

1976

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Brian Reynolds	The formation and development of Fianna Fáil, 1926–1932	David Thornley

1968

PhD Awarded To	Title of Doctoral Thesis	Supervisor
Dr Patrick Keatinge	The formulation of Irish foreign policy	Basil Chubb (PDF, 86KB)