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Empowering Communities Through Post-Disaster Reconstruction

Riona McGrath
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2018
PhD

Subject: Architecture

Printing types in the Irish character

Dermot McGuinne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
PhD

Subject: Printing
Country: Ireland

Materialising Modernity: new Buildings for Leisure and Travel in Ireland, 1920-1950

Caoimhe McMahon
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2018
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Godson
Approx. 80,000 - 100,000 words

Irish Figure Sculpture in the Twelfth Century

Suzanne McNab
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1986
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Guarino Guarini and His Architecture

H. A. Meek
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
1985
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art

Kathryn Milligan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
PhD

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland: Dublin

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

John Rocque and the Making of the 1756 Exact Survey of Dublin

John Montague
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

Subject: Maps
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Edward McParland
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

Ireland in Perspective: the Art of Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland

Brenda Moore McCann
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
PhD

Subject: Art Criticism, Sculpture and Installation
Country: Ireland and U.S.A.
Period: 20th Century

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

Into the Void: Translating Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1910

Kerstina Mortensen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
PhD

Subject: Nordic Art
Period: 19th Century

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

Later medieval Irish wall painting c.1100-c.1600 AD

Karena M. R. Morton
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2007
PhD

Subject: Medieval Irish wall painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th- 17th Century

80,000-100,000 words

Romanesque Chevron Ornament

Rachel Laura Moss
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

For the Greater Glory of God and King: The Decoration of the Basilica of San Lorenzo El Real de El Escorial for Philip II of Spain

Rosemarie Mulcahy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
PhD

Subject: Interior decor
Country: Spain
Period: 16th Century

Irish Book Shrines: a Reassessment

Paul Mullarkey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
PhD

Subject: Metal Work
Country: Ireland
Period: Early Medieval

Supervisor: Prof. Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Late Roman Villas in the Danube-Balkan Region

Lynda Mulvin
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1999
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Germany
Period: 3rd Century to 5th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Camera Eye: An Intertextual Approach to the Misrecognition of the Photograph

Richard Thomas Murphy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
PhD

Subject: Photography

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

Thomas Farrell, Dublin sculptor 1827-1900

Paula Murphy
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1992
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

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

Doing it for themselves: Artist-Run Gallery Spaces in Contemporary Ireland

Alexandra Murphy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
PhD

Subject: Curating
Period: 21st Century

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

From Mars to Kassandra: the memorialisation of World War I in the work of Otto Dix.

Ann Murray
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2018
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

This thesis argues that the memorialisation of World War I in the work of German artist and soldier Otto Dix (1891-1969) challenged Germany’s prevailing social and political attitudes to war and militarism, demanding action against growing public support for militarist politics in the late Weimar Republic. Scholarship has dwelt on the art-historical context of Dix’s war pictures but not their interaction with the socio-political context, specifically in Dresden, where Dix worked, and where numerous extreme right-wing cultural and political groups were active. The thesis focuses on some battlefield pictures and two triptychs, Metropolis (1928) and War (1929 1932) relating them to the broader visual culture of war in order to assess Dix’s strategies as a transgressive commemorative artist. The relationship between Dix and Dresden’s extreme right-wing groups has been largely overlooked; yet, as the thesis reveals, the extreme Right’s negative reception of Dix’s work significantly complicates the terms by which his art is understood. Employing the methods of the social history of art, the thesis establishes the meaning of these works within their social, political and artistic context. Chapter I reconstructs Dix's first public showing in a soldiers’ art exhibition in Dresden in 1916 in order to trace the artist’s development as an incisive memoriographer of war. Chapter II treats nationalist art, artists and extreme right-wing criticism in Dresden in exploring the provocative nature of Dix’s appropriation and adaptation of the traditional styles and techniques lauded by the extreme Right. Chapter III looks at the role of the triptych Metropolis in catalysing right-wing art criticism during a major exhibition in Dresden in 1928. The final chapter focuses on the relative failure of the triptych War as antithetical to militarist culture, as based on the quantity and quality of its reception at the Prussian Academy in 1932.

Water sources: Improvement in the Irish and English designed landscape, 1660-1800

Ruth Musielak
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2013
PhD

Subject: Landscape Architecture/Design
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 17th - 19th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Liturgy and Architecture in Medieval Ireland ca. 1100- c.1315: Evidence from the Diocese of Killaloe

Frances Narkiewicz
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century to 14th Century

Supervisor: Dr Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Reconstruction of the Gothic Past: Cultures of Conservation

Niamh NicGhabhann
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 18th Century to 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

This thesis explores the restoration and conservation of Gothic ecclesiastical buildings in Ireland from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. Two key distinct but interrelated contexts have been examined: firstly, the development of scholarship on Irish Gothic architecture from 1789 to the early twentieth century, in both professional and non-professional contexts, and secondly, the approaches taken by different groups, including landlords and local communities, professional architects, and the Irish Ecclesiastical Commission, in the restoration, conservation and preservation of medieval buildings during this period. The introductory chapter and literature review evaluate the extent to which these subjects have been considered in the extant literature on the subject, identifying both the foundation texts for this investigation, as well as the texts in which the specific issues examined here have been overlooked. The second chapter establishes a theoretical framework for the thesis, in particular the development of critical historiography in Irish architectural history, identifying the works of critical theory which have informed the close reading methodologies used in my analysis of documents and texts in this thesis.

Temptation and Transgression: Images of Christ and the Adulteress, and of Susanna and the Elders, in Renaissance Venice

Audrey Nicholls
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th century

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

Pedem Referens: Art Historical Memory and the Analogue in the Work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer

Kirstie North
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2016
PhD

Subject: Film and Photography
Period: 21st Century

This thesis explores the new art historical turn in contemporary art through close engagement with three British artworks. These are Tacita Dean’s, Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers), 2002, Jeremy Millar’s, The Man Who Looked Back, 2010, and Lucy Skaer’s, Leonora, 2006. Each of these artworks combines an art historical agenda with a celebration of the specificities of analogue film and photography in the context of our digital age. This thesis combines twentieth century photographic theory from Roland Barthes, André Bazin and Walter Benjamin, among others, with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan in order to argue that the indexical qualities of analogue film and photography place the medium in close proximity to the Lacanian Real. In its obsolescence the analogue’s language of both touch and loss is heightened. Each chapter of this thesis explores a different aspect of the Real in relation to specific attributes of the analogue, such as its propensity for archiving cultural traumas, its receptiveness to chance, and its proximity to death.

Dublin divided: The impact of social conflict on planning and development in Georgian Dublin 1750- 1800

Diarmuid Ó Grada
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
1999
Master in Urban & Building Conservation

Subject: Social conflict in Georgian Dublin
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 18th Century

80,000-100,000 words

Education Theses Register —Ph.D.

Empowering Communities Through Post-Disaster Reconstruction

Printing types in the Irish character

Materialising Modernity: new Buildings for Leisure and Travel in Ireland, 1920-1950

Irish Figure Sculpture in the Twelfth Century

Guarino Guarini and His Architecture

Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art

John Rocque and the Making of the 1756 Exact Survey of Dublin

Ireland in Perspective: the Art of Brian O'Doherty / Patrick Ireland

Into the Void: Translating Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1910

Later medieval Irish wall painting c.1100-c.1600 AD

Romanesque Chevron Ornament

For the Greater Glory of God and King: The Decoration of the Basilica of San Lorenzo El Real de El Escorial for Philip II of Spain

Irish Book Shrines: a Reassessment

Late Roman Villas in the Danube-Balkan Region

The Camera Eye: An Intertextual Approach to the Misrecognition of the Photograph

Thomas Farrell, Dublin sculptor 1827-1900

Doing it for themselves: Artist-Run Gallery Spaces in Contemporary Ireland

From Mars to Kassandra: the memorialisation of World War I in the work of Otto Dix.

Water sources: Improvement in the Irish and English designed landscape, 1660-1800

Liturgy and Architecture in Medieval Ireland ca. 1100- c.1315: Evidence from the Diocese of Killaloe

Reconstruction of the Gothic Past: Cultures of Conservation

Temptation and Transgression: Images of Christ and the Adulteress, and of Susanna and the Elders, in Renaissance Venice

Pedem Referens: Art Historical Memory and the Analogue in the Work of Tacita Dean, Jeremy Millar and Lucy Skaer

Dublin divided: The impact of social conflict on planning and development in Georgian Dublin 1750- 1800

Education Theses Register —
Ph.D.