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Montage as Devise: a Combined Analysis with Neuroscience to Explore the Limits of Meaning Within the Art Object

Eleanor Healy
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Art
Period: 20th Century

20,000 words

Portrait of Two Venetian Gentlemen in the National Gallery of Ireland: A Question of Identity

Rachel Healy
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

Some examples of the Influence of International Style on the Domestic Architecture of the Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown Borough between 1935 and 1950

Emmeline Henderson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1998
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Christine Casey
15,000 words

Eighteenth-century chimney-pieces

Lorrie Henehan
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2008
MA

Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: John Logan
21,000 words

William Scott

Nora Hickey
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2003
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
Approx. 33,000 words

Origins of Inspiration: Analysing and Contextualising the figure of the African servant in Jan Steen’s The Marriage Feast of Cana by conducting a comparison with Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana

Suzanne Holland-Mayes
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Painting/Iconography/Colonialism
Country: Italy and the Netherlands
Period: 17th Century

Supervisor: Dr Sean Leatherbury
62 pages

Lady Lavery and the World of Fashion

Caitriona Holt
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1998
MA

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

15,000 words

The Green Fingers of a Lady: Gender in Early Modern art Collectorship An intersectional Analysis of the Identity of Art Collector Agnes Block (1629-1704)

Joelle Hopman
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Art Collecting
Country: The Netherlands
Period: 17th-18th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
68 pages

Creating Madness: an Investigation into the Effect of Mental Illness on the Reception of Art and Artists

James Horan
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2010
MA

Subject: Art, Mental Illness

20,000 words

Art in Industry: Waterford Crystal 1947 - c.1987

Christina Hunt
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2004
MA

Subject: Glass
Country: Ireland: Waterford
Period: Mid to Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
Approx. 33,000 words

Lord Valentine Cloncurry's Roman Columns: an Exemplar of Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Material Culture

Sarah Hurley
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
MA

Subject: architecture/ material culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th century

Supervisor: Dr Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

An Appreciation of St. John’s Church, Limerick

Sinead Hutchison
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2006
MA

Country: Ireland: Limerick
Period: From Medieval times to Present

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

The Lost Baths: A study of Ireland's 19th Century Turkish Baths

Huda Jaber
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

The Gothic Revival in Irish Domestic Architecture

Lizanne Jackman
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2005
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland

Supervisor: John Logan
21,000 words

Analysing the Domestic, Commercial and Social life of Propertied Bachelor James Ware of no. 21 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

Kate Jameson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
MA

Subject: Architecture
Location: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Nicola Figgis
15,000 words

The Museum of the Future: The Post Industrial Museum of Contemporary Art as an Open- Source Driver of Creativity

Olga Johnston
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Architecture and Museum Studies
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James- Chakraborty
15,000 words

Cultural Presentations and Collective Memory in Ireland

Victoria Jones
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Contenporary Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
81 pages

Reimagining the Gothic Woman: Female Agency in Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art and Robert Egger's Nosferatu

Alexandra Jordan Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2025
MA (Major thesis)

Subject: Visual Art, Film, Feminist Art
Period: 19th - 21st Century

Supervisor: Aleksandra Gajowy

The Art of Countess Markievicz

Josephine Joyce
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2009
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Fairy Tales in Symbolist and Surrealist Art: Hans Christian Anderson, Harry Clarke and Salvador Dali

Ewa Kaminska
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

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

Supervisor: Dr. Róisín Kennedy
15,000 words

Symbolic Use of the Countryside in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Polish Painting

Maria Anna Kazuro
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Polish
Period: late 19th and early 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Paula Murphy
15,000 words

Mary Swanzy

Lorraine Keane
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2008
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Constituting Ireland’s National Monument – amidst Social, Political and Cultural Evolution

Mary Kearney
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2004
MA

Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr. Paula Murphy
15,000 words

The Painting of Birds and Fowl in the Low Countries Between 1550 and 1650

Joy Kearney
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1994
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Netherlands
Period: 16th and 17th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Kane
15,000 words

Education Theses Register —M.A.

Montage as Devise: a Combined Analysis with Neuroscience to Explore the Limits of Meaning Within the Art Object

Portrait of Two Venetian Gentlemen in the National Gallery of Ireland: A Question of Identity

Some examples of the Influence of International Style on the Domestic Architecture of the Dun Laoghaire- Rathdown Borough between 1935 and 1950

Eighteenth-century chimney-pieces

William Scott

Origins of Inspiration: Analysing and Contextualising the figure of the African servant in Jan Steen’s The Marriage Feast of Cana by conducting a comparison with Paolo Veronese’s The Wedding at Cana

Lady Lavery and the World of Fashion

The Green Fingers of a Lady: Gender in Early Modern art Collectorship An intersectional Analysis of the Identity of Art Collector Agnes Block (1629-1704)

Creating Madness: an Investigation into the Effect of Mental Illness on the Reception of Art and Artists

Art in Industry: Waterford Crystal 1947 - c.1987

Lord Valentine Cloncurry's Roman Columns: an Exemplar of Late Eighteenth-Century Anglo-Irish Material Culture

An Appreciation of St. John’s Church, Limerick

The Lost Baths: A study of Ireland's 19th Century Turkish Baths

The Gothic Revival in Irish Domestic Architecture

Analysing the Domestic, Commercial and Social life of Propertied Bachelor James Ware of no. 21 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin

The Museum of the Future: The Post Industrial Museum of Contemporary Art as an Open- Source Driver of Creativity

Cultural Presentations and Collective Memory in Ireland

Reimagining the Gothic Woman: Female Agency in Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Art and Robert Egger's Nosferatu

The Art of Countess Markievicz

Fairy Tales in Symbolist and Surrealist Art: Hans Christian Anderson, Harry Clarke and Salvador Dali

Symbolic Use of the Countryside in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Polish Painting

Mary Swanzy

Constituting Ireland’s National Monument – amidst Social, Political and Cultural Evolution

The Painting of Birds and Fowl in the Low Countries Between 1550 and 1650

Education Theses Register —
M.A.