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The Depiction of Ireland in the Illustrated London News from 1842 to 1900

Margarita Cappock
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1998
PhD

Country: England: London
Period: Mid to Late 19th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

The Art of Constructing La Città Santa: The Patronage of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

Christine Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
PhD

Subject: Architecture, Patronage
Country: Italy
Period: Late 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr Peter Cherry
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

An Tur Gloine and Michael Healy (1873-1941)

David Caron
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th to 20th Century

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

Books and Builders: A Bibliographical Approach to Irish Eighteenth Century Architecture

Christine Casey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
PhD

Subject: Architectural Publications
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

This study is an attempt to construct the bibliographical dimension of Irish eighteenth-century architectural history. Irish newspapers of the period have been combed for publication notices and subscription proposals and a representative cross-section of contemporary book catalogues has been sifted for architectural titles. The combination of these methods serves to give a general picture of the literature being collected by Irish library owners and that which was being sold by the book trade. Another avenue of approach has been the analysis of Irish manuscript materials which display a clear reliance upon published architectural works. Several curious manuscript volumes compiled in Ireland during the course of the eighteenth century vividly illustrate the usage of architectural books and prints both by amateurs and professional architects. The bookish nature of these documents demonstrates more clearly than built architecture, the assimilation of published proto-types into Irish eighteenth-century design. Having established the type of literature which was published in Ireland and that which was in general circulation, it was then requisite to consider the individuals who bought, sold, wrote, read or perused architectural publications. Irish library owners, the booksellers of Dublin and a handful of Irish architects and authors serve to humanise an otherwise exclusively bookish history. Given the preliminary state of Irish biographical studies, lengthy research was necessary to determine the identity and position of many lesser figures in the contemporary building world who were associated in a variety of ways with architectural literature. Perhaps the most useful contribution of this study to the architectural history of the period and to Irish eighteenth-century studies in general, is the new information which it provides on contemporary patrons, lesser known architects, builders and critics. This information adds significantly to our understanding of contemporary architecture.

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection: Patronage, Politics and patriotism, 1548-2000

M.E. Clarke
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2006
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th to 20th Centuries

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
80,000-100,000 words

Socio-cultural interactions in industrially minded landscapes: Implications for peatland after-use policies in Ireland

Marcus John Collier
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2009
PhD

Subject: Industrially mined landscapes
Country: Ireland

80,000-100,000 words

Personal Devotional Objects and the Iconography of the Passion in Ireland, 1537-1800

Jill Connaughton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
PhD

Subject: Iconography, Devotional Objects
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century to 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

A ‘Painter of Modern Life’: William Orpen (1878-1931)

Anne Cormican
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Nicola Figgis
Vol. 1 (213 pages) Vol. 2 (illustrations: 90 pages)

The collecting practices of Isabel de Farnesio, Queen of Spain: A contextualisation in terms of gender, taste and title

Aoife Cosgrove
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2024
PhD

Subject: Collecting Practices, Gender Studies
Country: Spain
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Peter Cherry
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

An Anatomy of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Ireland 1600-1720

Vandra Carolyn Costello
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2005
PhD

Subject: Landscape design
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 17th and early 18th Century

80,000-100,000 words

Titian, Giulio Romano, and the Legacy of the Caesars: Reconstructing Federico II Gonzaga’s Camerino dei Cesari at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua

Frances Coulter
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2025
PhD

Subject: Visual Art, Technical Art History, Fresco
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Philip Cottrell
80,000-100,000 words

The genesis of an archive, forty years of the Irish Builder 1859-1899

Gearoid Crookes
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1994
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Professor Alistair Rowan
80,000-100,000 words

An evaluation of environmental voluntary approaches: A case study of the Irish packaging Voluntary Agreement

James A. Cunningham
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2002
PhD

Subject: Environmental aspects
Country: Ireland

80,000-100,000 words

Regulation, Resistence, and Resilience: The Visual and Material Culture of Dublin's Female Street Traders (c.1870s-1920s)

Suan Curley Meyer
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2025
PhD

Subject: Visual Culture, Social History
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th - 20th Century

Supervisor: Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
80,000-100,000 words

For a Baroque Aesthetic: A Study of the Films of David Lynch

Michaela Cutaya
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2004
PhD

Subject: Film
Country: U.S.A
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Valerie Connor
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

Bochner's Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art

Lucy Dawe Lane
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2015
PhD

Subject: Conceptual Art
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Francis Halsall
80,000-100,000 words

Gender and Art Practice in Contemporary Irish Art: An in depth study of the work of Alice Maher, Dorothy Cross and Kathy Prendergast

Sheila Dickinson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2009
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
80,000-100,000 words

The Irish High Crosses in post-medieval Ireland

Ana Dolan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2024
PhD

Subject: Sculpture, Religious Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th - 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Harry Clarke Studios and the Irish American Church; Making, Meaning and Identity

Paul Donnelly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2023
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass, Religious Art
Country: Ireland and USA
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Angela Griffith
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Artisan Sculpture and the Stone Carving Firms of Dublin, 1859-1910

Thomas Duffy
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1999
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: Mid 19th to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

Towards a theory of the impediments to the political acceptability of environmental taxes and environmental tax reform

Louise A Dunne
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2002
PhD

Subject: Economic policy
Country: Ireland

80,000-100,000 words

Regional splendour and mercantile ambition: the Drogheda town house in the eighteenth century

Aisling Durkan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2020
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Professor Christine Casey
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Devotion and Tradition in Stained Glass in Twentieth Century Ireland: Earley & Co. 1903-1953

Michael Earley
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2023
PhD

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

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Godson
90,000 words

The Nude in Modern Irish Art: Tradition and Transgression: an Exploration of Themes and Trends in the Representation of the Nude in Twentieth Century Irish Art

Isabella Evangelisti
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
PhD

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

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

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Education Theses Register —Ph.D.

The Depiction of Ireland in the Illustrated London News from 1842 to 1900

The Art of Constructing La Città Santa: The Patronage of Pope Gregory XIII (1572-1585)

An Tur Gloine and Michael Healy (1873-1941)

Books and Builders: A Bibliographical Approach to Irish Eighteenth Century Architecture

The Dublin Civic Portrait Collection: Patronage, Politics and patriotism, 1548-2000

Socio-cultural interactions in industrially minded landscapes: Implications for peatland after-use policies in Ireland

Personal Devotional Objects and the Iconography of the Passion in Ireland, 1537-1800

A ‘Painter of Modern Life’: William Orpen (1878-1931)

The collecting practices of Isabel de Farnesio, Queen of Spain: A contextualisation in terms of gender, taste and title

An Anatomy of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Ireland 1600-1720

Titian, Giulio Romano, and the Legacy of the Caesars: Reconstructing Federico II Gonzaga’s Camerino dei Cesari at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua

The genesis of an archive, forty years of the Irish Builder 1859-1899

An evaluation of environmental voluntary approaches: A case study of the Irish packaging Voluntary Agreement

Regulation, Resistence, and Resilience: The Visual and Material Culture of Dublin's Female Street Traders (c.1870s-1920s)

For a Baroque Aesthetic: A Study of the Films of David Lynch

Bochner's Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art

Gender and Art Practice in Contemporary Irish Art: An in depth study of the work of Alice Maher, Dorothy Cross and Kathy Prendergast

The Irish High Crosses in post-medieval Ireland

Harry Clarke Studios and the Irish American Church; Making, Meaning and Identity

Artisan Sculpture and the Stone Carving Firms of Dublin, 1859-1910

Towards a theory of the impediments to the political acceptability of environmental taxes and environmental tax reform

Regional splendour and mercantile ambition: the Drogheda town house in the eighteenth century

Devotion and Tradition in Stained Glass in Twentieth Century Ireland: Earley & Co. 1903-1953

The Nude in Modern Irish Art: Tradition and Transgression: an Exploration of Themes and Trends in the Representation of the Nude in Twentieth Century Irish Art

Education Theses Register —
Ph.D.