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Ecclesiastical Celtic Antiquities as Purveyors of Loyalty in Nineteenth-Century Irish Art

Kathleen Easland
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

The St John Evangelist Portraits: Insular Identity in Terms of Iconography, Style and Influences

Hayley Brooke Humphrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005

MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Metalwork, Manuscripts and Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 6th Century to 13th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

A History and Evaluation of Art Historical Studies in 3rd Level Art and Design

Mary McMahon
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Education
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Angela Griffith
20,000

Repetition: A Semiotic Mechanism of Destablization in Art

Margaret O’ Brien
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Towards a History of Naïve Art in Ireland: The 18th Century

Darragh O’ Donovan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

Anne Yeats (1919-2001) Out of the Shadows

Valerie Alexander
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Embroidery, Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Éimear O’ Connor
20,000

The Art and Politics of Eviction Imagery, 1840-1890

Fiona Bailey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005

M. Phil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Stella Steyn (1907-1987)

Stephanie Barry
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2007
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

The Artist's Whore : 'Painted Lady' or Pretext?

Manda C. Bell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
MPhil

Subject: Painting

Franciscan Architecture: Comparing Orders, Patronage and Art in Assisi and Waterford

Marian Berthoud
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
MPhil (Art and Ireland)

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Waterford

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
15,000-20,000

The Whole Mosaic - John Hewitt and the Ulster Unit

Jamie Blake-Knox
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Mosaic
Country: Ireland: Belfast
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

The Influences on Frederick William Burton’s ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’

Mai Blount
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

The Depiction of Fairs and Markets in Irish Painting, 1780-1820

Mary Jane Boland
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century and 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

Margaret Corcoran: Challenging Art Historical Patriarchy Through Appropriation

Samantha Brauer
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Facing Out for Meaning: the Human Head Motif in Romanesque Ireland

John Brennan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 11th Century to 12th Century

Supervisor: Dr Laura Cleaver
20,000

Austerity and Functionalism in Visual Communication: A Critique of the International Typographic Style

Warren Brown
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1999
MPhil

Subject: Architecture
Period: 20th Century

Text and Image in the Work of Lorand Gaspar

Karen Brown
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
MPhil

Subject: Illustration
Period: 20th Century

Wearable Wealth: The Social and Cultural Significance of Gold Jewellery in Later Medieval Ireland

Chantal Brown
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Metalwork
Country: Ireland
Period: 13th Century to 15th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Painting the Military - Art into History, Ireland 1780-1930

Rita Brown
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century to 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

The Trinity College Exhibition Hall: Ireland’s First University Gallery

Emma Burke
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Country: Ireland: Dublin

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Frances Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Cats in the Book of Kells

Henry Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Ireland
Period: 8th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

Patrick Anthony Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
MPhil

Subject: Multimedia
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Catherine Lawless

This thesis concerns the work of the artist Billy Quinn during the decade of the 1990s. It was a very productive time for him, and a period during which he returned to a much-changed Ireland having spent a number of years in London and New York. On first looking at Billy Quinn’s work, it does not surrender any suggestion of Irish roots but rather of the artistic and intellectual environments of London, New York City and specifically the gay-AIDS support community in New York during the 1980s and early 1990s. It also displays his deep familiarity with Western art, literature and philosophy. Since childhood, Quinn, as he emphasised in his interview, has had a love of reading and ideas. This was the time of AIDS and its devastation. It was a time when Michel Foucault’s ideas were discussed and reviewed in the New York Native1 along with statistics about infections and T-cell counts. Foucault’s ideas were used as a way of making sense out of the chaos in which the gay community found itself. It provided strategies to combat institutionalised indifference and homophobia. Aiding in that battle was the work of Eve Sedgwick (Sedgwick, 1994, p. 3) and Judith Butler (Butler, 1999). Their writings on gender worked out Foucault’s ideas in a way that had immediate relevance for the gay community and its survival. Quinn’s work is about AIDS but also about faith and family. It addresses more issues than what a paper of this size allows time and space for. Billy Quinn was born in Dublin in 1954. In 1973 and 1974 he attended the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Foundation Year Programme. Before finishing he left Ireland and moved to London. Between 1977 and 1979 he studied for a diploma in fine art at City and Guilds in London. He continued his studies at North East London Polytechnic, gaining a BA in Fine Art and Film in 1982. In 1984 he started an MA in Theatre at the University of London. Shortly after, he went to New York where he lived until his return to Ireland in 1995. In New York, he supported himself with interior design projects and became involved in community activism as an early member of Act Up.2 By 1990 he was back making art. From 1990 to 1995 he participated in a number of group and individual shows in New York, Chicago and Atlanta. All these shows were of works mostly concerned with the AIDS crisis and how people responded to it. His work was his response to the crisis. On his return to Ireland he was an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and displayed work with Out Art3 and at the Temple Bar Gallery in 1996 and 1998. During his stay in Dublin he worked on material that contributed to his PhD at East London University. The following year he returned to London and completed his PhD in Fine Art in 2000. The title of his dissertation is ‘More Life: Towards a Vitalist Manifesto or Bifurcation, Pseudopodia and the worm, Jane Seymour and me, even’. Since then he has lived and worked in the Netherlands.

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

Susan Campbell

Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 20th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

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Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin / M.Phil.

Ecclesiastical Celtic Antiquities as Purveyors of Loyalty in Nineteenth-Century Irish Art

The St John Evangelist Portraits: Insular Identity in Terms of Iconography, Style and Influences

A History and Evaluation of Art Historical Studies in 3rd Level Art and Design

Repetition: A Semiotic Mechanism of Destablization in Art

Towards a History of Naïve Art in Ireland: The 18th Century

Anne Yeats (1919-2001) Out of the Shadows

The Art and Politics of Eviction Imagery, 1840-1890

Stella Steyn (1907-1987)

The Artist's Whore : 'Painted Lady' or Pretext?

Franciscan Architecture: Comparing Orders, Patronage and Art in Assisi and Waterford

The Whole Mosaic - John Hewitt and the Ulster Unit

The Influences on Frederick William Burton’s ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’

The Depiction of Fairs and Markets in Irish Painting, 1780-1820

Margaret Corcoran: Challenging Art Historical Patriarchy Through Appropriation

Facing Out for Meaning: the Human Head Motif in Romanesque Ireland

Austerity and Functionalism in Visual Communication: A Critique of the International Typographic Style

Text and Image in the Work of Lorand Gaspar

Wearable Wealth: The Social and Cultural Significance of Gold Jewellery in Later Medieval Ireland

Painting the Military - Art into History, Ireland 1780-1930

The Trinity College Exhibition Hall: Ireland’s First University Gallery

The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Cats in the Book of Kells

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

Education Theses Register —
Trinity College Dublin / M.Phil.