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The Derrynaflan Chalice: Its Archaeological and Art-Historical Significance

Michael Edward Fitzgerald Ryan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
PhD

Subject: Metalwork
Country: Ireland
Period: 8th Century to 9th Century

Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

Designers in International Development: A Reflection on Designing Gambian Energy Futures

Anne Schiffer
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2016
PhD

Subject: Architecture

The Iconography of Mythological Themes in German Art c.1920-1950

Yvonne Scott
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
PhD

Subject: Iconography
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

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

Mythical King or Laical Christ Figure? The Marrying of the Sacred and the Secular in Fourteenth Century French Arthurian Illuminations

Katherine Sedovic
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
PhD

Subject: Manuscript
Country: France
Period: 14th Century

Supervisor: Dr Laura Cleaver
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Early Irish Free State Government and the Visual Arts

William Shorthall
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2021
PhD

Subject: Irish Art & Government
Period: 20th Century

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

A History of the Rosc Exhibitions 1967 to 1988, their Confrontations and Influences

Peter Shortt
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
PhD

Subject: Exhibitions
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

'Celebrated Beauties’: Dialogues, Duty and Display in Ascendancy Ireland, 1720-1790

Priscilla Sonnier
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
PhD

Subject: Visual Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Conor Lucey
80,000-100,000 words

Challenges and Strategies for Confined Site Construction: The Case of Personnel, Plant and Material Management (PPMM)

John Spillane
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2013
PhD

Subject: Engineering, Architecture

The Development of Visual Imagery of the State in Ireland North and South 1920-1960

Ciaran Swan
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2005
PhD

Subject: National Iconography
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
80,000-100,000 words

Francesco Camilliani and the Florentine Garden of Don Luigi de Toledo: a Study of Fountain Production and Consumption in the Third Quarter of the 16th Century

Anatole Tchikine
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2004
PhD

Subject: Sculpture, Fountains
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Peter Cherry

(En)acting Democracy: Practice and Policy in Contemporary Irish Collaborative Art

David Teevan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
PhD

Subject: Irish Contemporary Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
283 pages

The Origins and Early Development of the Pembroke Estate Beyond the Grand Canal 1816-1880

Eve McAuley
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2003
Ph.D.

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

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

Beyond the Desert: the Narrative Composition of Medieval Images for the Hermits Paul and Anthony Receiving Bread from the Raven

Colleen Thomas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
PhD

Subject: Art

Supervisor: Dr Roger Stallery/ Laura Cleaver
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Artist's Biography as a Source of Meaning

Karl Thomas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
PhD

Subject: Biography

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

Parrasio Micheli and Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Reconsidering a Lost Reputation

Mark Tully
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2025
PhD

Subject: Visual Art, Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century

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

Architectural Patronage in Ireland: the Early Anglo-Norman Lords

Jill Unkel
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2010
PhD

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

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

NGO Competency-Based Framework for the Delivery of Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects

Jason Von Meding
Queen's University Belfast
School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering
2013
PhD

Subject: Engineering

Strategic spatial planning at the regional and local scales: A case study of the Dublin city-region

Cormac Walsh
University College Dublin
UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy
2010
PhD

Subject: Spatial planning
Country: Ireland

80,000-100,000 words

Institutionalising modern Consumption, market buildings and department stores in Chinese cities: 1930s-1950s

Zhengfeng Wang
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
PhD

Subject: Retail Buildings/ Architecture
Country: China
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
187 pages

Nancy Spero: Pain and Politics, 1966-1976

Rachel Warriner
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2016
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

The ten-year period that started with Nancy Spero’s War Series (1966-70) and ended with the completion of Torture of Women (1974-6) were of vital importance to the development of this key figure of feminist art. This was the moment when Spero turned her focus to politics, departing from a practice that was concerned with personal disaffection, instead focusing on profoundly social concerns. Essential to this evolution is a focus on pain. From the War Series through the Artaud Paintings (1970-71), Codex Artaud (1971-2), and Torture of Women, pain, both internal and external, was imagined in multiple forms. In Spero’s explorations of the theme, pain becomes metaphoric of the experience of women living under patriarchy, an amorphous but still profoundly disabling sensation that attacks both body and mind. This thesis explores Spero’s use of physical pain during moment of feminist art’s emergence, seeing it as a political metaphor for the way in which patriarchy invisibly controls and undermines women. Framed broadly by the question of art's relationship with politics during this turbulent period of anti-war and feminist activism, this thesis closely examines the way in which an analogy to pain figures the body in the work in complex terms, pursuing an ideological ambition through recourse to feeling.

Reconstructing a Region – Rioja and its Wineries

Louis Weyhe Funder
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
PhD

Subject: Modern Spanish Architecture
Country: Spain
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
80,000-100,000 words

Giambattista Tiepolo in Spain: the late religious paintings

Catherine Whistler
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1984
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Spain
Period: 18th Century

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

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.

Foreseeing and Transmitting Arcadia: Perspective visualization in landscape architectural design

Sabrina Wilk
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: various
Period: various