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Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A building history

Gloria Gaghan Warner
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1976
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th to 19th Century

10,000 words

The Mighty Linen Warehouses of Belfast. (1850-1875)

Colleen Watters
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1984
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Northern Ireland
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

Enriching the Environment? Public Sculpture in Dublin

Sarah Melissa Webb
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland

10,000 words

Han van Meegeren. How Were the Experts Fooled?

Nick Webb
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Holland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

“All art is collaboration.” John Millington Synge, Jack B Yeats and the Relationship Between Text and Image in ‘The Aran Islands’ (1907)

Ella Wedderburn
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
BA

Subject: Illustrations, Photography, Text
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is centred around John Millington Synge’s The Aran Islands’ (1907), illustrated by Jack B. Yeats. An interdisciplinary approach is taken in the exploration of the relationship between text and image. As a product of the Irish Literary Revival, the cultural context from which the book emerged is of considerable importance.The first chapter explores ideologies of the Revival and how these manifest in both text and image, tropes such as the myth of the west, the myth of Aran and the noble savage are explored. The notable presence of primitivism in Synge’s text is also discussed and contextualissed in relation to wider trends in Europe. The second chapter discuss photographs taken by Synge on the Islands and the third chapter focuses on Jack B.Yeat’s illustrations.

Traditional Dress in the Construction of National Identities Painting in Bulgaria and Ireland: 1905-1935

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

Subject: Painting and Costume
Country: Ireland and Bulgaria
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

A Stylistic Analysis of the St. Manchan Shrine Figures

Fiona Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

10,000 words

The Assumption of the Virgin in Sienese Altarpieces and Panel Paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries

Maria Colette Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 14th and 15th Century

10,000 words

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare: An Art Historical Investigation

Beatrice Whelan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Architecture and Sculpture
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation investigates all aspects of the Gothic revival Church of St. Peter and Paul in Monasterevin, built during the famine. The author outlines the local social and religious context in which the church was built and traces the building progress of the church using primary sources. Among many issues covered is the attainment of land and building stone for the church and the question of funding the building of the church during the famine. The interior decoration and stained glass of the church is discussed using primary sources such as newspaper accounts and old photographs. The career of the architect of the church, William Deane Butler, is examined and the architecture of the church analysed in relation to the architect's other churches. The final chapter discusses the provenancing of the Italian Baroque altar rails in the church which were originally made for the church of S. Stefano in Venice.

The White Stag Group in Neutral Ireland 1939 - 1946

Nicola White
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1981
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

I Am An Architect, They Call Me A Butcher: The Artist’s Body As Site Of Resistance To Consumer Culture

Barry White
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
BA

Subject: Photography and Installation
Country: Britain and Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

10,000 words

This dissertation explores the work of a number of contemporary artists whose work has a strong engagement with ideas relating to the body and its role as locus for numerous cultural forces. The work of Paul McCarthy is discussed in relation to the Disney Corporation and its sphere of cultural influence, taking Jean Baudrillard’s criticisms of Disney’s generation of hyperreal state of existence into account. The “Carnal Art” of French performance artist Orlan is explored against the background of cosmetic surgery as cultural phenomonen with reference to Susan Bordo’s theory of image normalisation. Then the body art if Ron Athey and Fakir Musafar as well as Stelarc’s work with human/ machine interfacing are explored in terms of their provision of theoretical futures for the human body. Finally, works by Jake and Dinos Chapman, Paul McCarthy and Tony Oursler are examined.

The Albert Bender Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the Context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California

Audrey Whitty
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
PhD

Subject: Eastern Art
Country: Ireland and California

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The National Museum of Ireland (formerly the Dublin Science and Art Museum) was founded in 1877. During the late nineteenth/early twentieth century policy dictated that the acquisition of applied/industrial arts be nationally as well as internationally based. As a result many objects of Asian provenance came under museum control. This policy changed on Irish Independence, but one notable donor during the early years of the Irish Free State was the Irish-born, San Francisco millionaire, Albert Maurice Bender (1866-1941) who donated 260 objects of Asian art from 1931 to 1936. This collection includes twenty -one rare eighteenth century’ Tibetan-Buddhist Thangka paintings and over eighty Japanese woodblock prints from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Bender’s Jewish faith and Irish patriotism are examined in the context of his collecting activities, his generous benefaction of contemporary avant-garde art on the west coast of the United States and extensive bibliophilic activities. Bender’s correspondence with the director of the National Museum, Dr. Adolf Mahr will also be discussed, as will his relationships with some of Ireland’s most prominent intellectuals.

Native American Influence and Erasure in Nineteenth-Century Transcendentalist Landscape Painting

Isabella Charlotte Wilf
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Painting, Landscape Art
Country: USA
Period: 19th Century

10,000 words

William Osbourne: a Painter of Dogs

Victoria Browne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
M. Phil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Losing Face: The Abstracted and Symbolic Head Image in Irish Art, 1600-2005

Monique Williams
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2008
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 17th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Max Beckmann and George Grosz. Weimar Germany 1919 - 1933. The Art of Disillusionment

David Wilson
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Dublin Squares- 1663 to 1787

Dana Blanaid Josephine Winder
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 17th and 18th Century

10,000 words

The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Book of Hours Once Owned by Chester Beatty

Karen Winslow
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
MPhil (Art and Ireland)

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Ireland

Supervisor: Dr Laura Cleaver
15,000-20,000

Images of Poverty and Labour in the Work of the Contemporary Irish photographer. Derek Speirs.

Maime Winters
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1995
BA

Subject: Photography
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Humility and Virginity; Imagery and Ideology in the theme of the annunciation in Florentine painting 1440-1460

Joanne Wood
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

The Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock

Joanna Woodworth
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Eleven Landscape Paintings in the Hugh Lane Collection of Modern Continental Art

Penny Wray
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

10,000 words

From Nude to Naked: Case-studies in Exploration of How Modernists Changed the Representation of the Female Body

Beatrice Wright
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2024
BA

Subject: Visual Culture, Feminism
Country: Europe & USA
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Stained Glass in Ireland: Principally Irish Stained Glass 1760-1963

Michael Wynne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1975
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th to 20th Century

Supervisor: Anne Crookshank
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Education Theses Register —Department of History of Art and Architecture

Saint Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. A building history

The Mighty Linen Warehouses of Belfast. (1850-1875)

Enriching the Environment? Public Sculpture in Dublin

Han van Meegeren. How Were the Experts Fooled?

“All art is collaboration.” John Millington Synge, Jack B Yeats and the Relationship Between Text and Image in ‘The Aran Islands’ (1907)

Traditional Dress in the Construction of National Identities Painting in Bulgaria and Ireland: 1905-1935

A Stylistic Analysis of the St. Manchan Shrine Figures

The Assumption of the Virgin in Sienese Altarpieces and Panel Paintings of the 14th and 15th centuries

The Church of St. Peter and St. Paul, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare: An Art Historical Investigation

The White Stag Group in Neutral Ireland 1939 - 1946

I Am An Architect, They Call Me A Butcher: The Artist’s Body As Site Of Resistance To Consumer Culture

The Albert Bender Donations of Far Eastern Art to the National Museum of Ireland in the Context of his Cultural Interests in Ireland and California

Native American Influence and Erasure in Nineteenth-Century Transcendentalist Landscape Painting

William Osbourne: a Painter of Dogs

Losing Face: The Abstracted and Symbolic Head Image in Irish Art, 1600-2005

Max Beckmann and George Grosz. Weimar Germany 1919 - 1933. The Art of Disillusionment

Dublin Squares- 1663 to 1787

The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Book of Hours Once Owned by Chester Beatty

Images of Poverty and Labour in the Work of the Contemporary Irish photographer. Derek Speirs.

Humility and Virginity; Imagery and Ideology in the theme of the annunciation in Florentine painting 1440-1460

The Chapel of Reconciliation at Knock

Eleven Landscape Paintings in the Hugh Lane Collection of Modern Continental Art

From Nude to Naked: Case-studies in Exploration of How Modernists Changed the Representation of the Female Body

Stained Glass in Ireland: Principally Irish Stained Glass 1760-1963

Education Theses Register —
Department of History of Art and Architecture