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“Sensation on Show: Exhibiting Sensation Paintings in London 1790-1850”

Aoife Earl
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2012
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: England
Period: 18th and 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Non-Ulster Churches of Dr. Liam McCormick

Beverley East
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2006
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

City of the Virgin: Power, Politics, and Marian Imagery in Siena and Venice from the 13th-16th Century

Padraig Edwards
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2010
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 13th - 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Life, Art and Impact of the Artist, Basil Rákóczi (1909-1979)

Alice Evans-Bevan
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Modernism
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Lynda Mulvin
129 pages

Judith Leyster: A Biographical Review

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

Subject: 17th Century Dutch Artists/ Female Artists
Country: Netherlands
Period: 17th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
82 words

The Monstrous and the Immaculate: The Use of Feminine Icons During the Campaign to Repeal the Eighth Amendment, 2016-2018

Sarah Fahy
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Iconography/ Social Justice
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
92 pages

'Catching the Female Gaze': Representations of Male Religious Figures and the Female Viewer in Renaissance Art

Jessica Fahy
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MLitt

Subject: Renaissance Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip Cottrell
40,000-60,000 words

Rathfarnham Castle: an Early Irish Fortified House in Context

Emma Fallon
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2011
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th and 17th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Visual culture of the 2016 US Elections: Construction, manipulation and reception in the public

Emily Glynn-Farrell
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2017
MA

Subject: Visual Culture of the 2016 American Elections
Country: United States
Period: 21st century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-FitzGerald
15,000 words

“Emotions are ‘Sticky’”: Reading Queer Affect in Contemporary Queer Abstraction

Jordan Farrelly
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Contemporary
Country: Various
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Aleksandra Gajowy
66 pages

A Survey of Irish Artists exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy 1890-1905

Suzanne Elizabeth Feeney
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1984
MA (research)

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

Supervisor: Dr. John O'Grady

John Smyth, a Dublin Palladian Architect

Ruth Ferguson
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2002
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 18th and 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

Frederick Augustus Hervey, 4th Earl of Bristol and Bishop of Derry (1730-1803) as patron of art.

Nicola Figgis
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1992
MA (research)

Subject: Patronage
Country: England, Ireland and Italy
Period: 18th and early 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Kane

Irish Artists, Dealers and Grand Tourists in Italy in the eighteenth century

Nicola Figgis
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1994
PhD

Subject: Painting, Sculpture and Patronage
Country: Italy and Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Kane and Professor Michael McCarthy
80,000-100,000 words

The History of ‘New Gardens’ – its Design and Structures

Paul Finnucane
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2000
MA

Subject: Architecture and Garden Design
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: 18th Century

15,000 words

Reviewing the Reliquary Shrine: The Effects of Pilgrimage Culture and Growing Papal Authority on Administering Saint and Relic Cults in 12th Century Ireland

Laura Fitzachary
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Antiquity
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

Supervisor: Dr Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

“The Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion” by Dominico Theotocopoulos, called “El Greco”

Cliona Mary FitzGerald
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1974
MA (research)

Subject: Painting
Period: 16th Century


The Querini and the Myth of Venice: the decoration of Villa Querini/ Tiozzo

Penelope Fitzgerald
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2008
MA

Subject: Wall Painting
Country: Italy: Venice
Period: 16th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Via Crucis by Imogen Stuart R.H.A. in Firhouse, Dublin, studied in the context of the history and iconography of the devotion particularly in Ireland

Alison FitzGerald
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1993
MA (research) 

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Eileen Kane

The Treatment of Women in the Work of Roderic O’Conor

Elizabeth Fleming
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1998
MA

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

Supervisor: Professor Michael McCarthy
15,000 words

Lewes Priory and a group of Sussex Murals

Kevin F.N. Flynn
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1973
MA (research) 

Subject: Painting (Murals)
Country: England
Period: 12th Century
 

Supervisor: Professor Francoise Henry

Exploring Representations of the Female Nude in the Bedroom in the Early 20th Century in the Paintings of William Orpen and Walter Sickert

Alison Flynn
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
93 pages

The Kite as a Contemporary Art Form

Pauline Flynn
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1993
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Japan
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Eileen Kane

Marie Laurencin: The Portrait of Marie Laurencin by examination of her self-portraits and portraits of her by other artists, and the reception of her work by comparing the views of both male and female writers

Eve Fogarty
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2012
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words