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Cats in the Book of Kells

Henry Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Ireland
Period: 8th Century

Supervisor: Dr Rachel Moss
20,000

Context and continuity: A research of the cross-inscribed slabs and related monuments of Inishmurray Island

Lara Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2001
BA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: Early Christian Ireland

10,000 words

This dissertation though it has a particularly archaeological flavour, uses an interdisciplinary approach to reconstruct the settlement patterns of Inishmurray Island off the coast of Co. Sligo. The author uses the cross-inscribed slabs and other monuments on the island to examine the history of the island and its settlement pattern. The main issue that the dissertation addresses is the question of when the island was deserted.The author questions the remark made by scholars such as Francoise Henry and St. Joseph that the island was deserted after Vikings invaded in 807AD and not reinhabited until the later medieval period. By using the dating of the cross-inscribed slabs the author argues for the continuity of settlement on the island. Chapters include a site description and outline of the historical background of the island and an analysis of the various artefacts found on and connected with the site.

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

Patrick Anthony Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
MPhil

Subject: Multimedia
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Catherine Lawless

This thesis concerns the work of the artist Billy Quinn during the decade of the 1990s. It was a very productive time for him, and a period during which he returned to a much-changed Ireland having spent a number of years in London and New York. On first looking at Billy Quinn’s work, it does not surrender any suggestion of Irish roots but rather of the artistic and intellectual environments of London, New York City and specifically the gay-AIDS support community in New York during the 1980s and early 1990s. It also displays his deep familiarity with Western art, literature and philosophy. Since childhood, Quinn, as he emphasised in his interview, has had a love of reading and ideas. This was the time of AIDS and its devastation. It was a time when Michel Foucault’s ideas were discussed and reviewed in the New York Native1 along with statistics about infections and T-cell counts. Foucault’s ideas were used as a way of making sense out of the chaos in which the gay community found itself. It provided strategies to combat institutionalised indifference and homophobia. Aiding in that battle was the work of Eve Sedgwick (Sedgwick, 1994, p. 3) and Judith Butler (Butler, 1999). Their writings on gender worked out Foucault’s ideas in a way that had immediate relevance for the gay community and its survival. Quinn’s work is about AIDS but also about faith and family. It addresses more issues than what a paper of this size allows time and space for. Billy Quinn was born in Dublin in 1954. In 1973 and 1974 he attended the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) Foundation Year Programme. Before finishing he left Ireland and moved to London. Between 1977 and 1979 he studied for a diploma in fine art at City and Guilds in London. He continued his studies at North East London Polytechnic, gaining a BA in Fine Art and Film in 1982. In 1984 he started an MA in Theatre at the University of London. Shortly after, he went to New York where he lived until his return to Ireland in 1995. In New York, he supported himself with interior design projects and became involved in community activism as an early member of Act Up.2 By 1990 he was back making art. From 1990 to 1995 he participated in a number of group and individual shows in New York, Chicago and Atlanta. All these shows were of works mostly concerned with the AIDS crisis and how people responded to it. His work was his response to the crisis. On his return to Ireland he was an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and displayed work with Out Art3 and at the Temple Bar Gallery in 1996 and 1998. During his stay in Dublin he worked on material that contributed to his PhD at East London University. The following year he returned to London and completed his PhD in Fine Art in 2000. The title of his dissertation is ‘More Life: Towards a Vitalist Manifesto or Bifurcation, Pseudopodia and the worm, Jane Seymour and me, even’. Since then he has lived and worked in the Netherlands.

Samuel Lover : His life and work

Paul E.M. Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

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

10,000 words

‘Unrealised’: An Irish House for an Irish Leader Architectural Competition for a Residence for the Taoiseach and a State Guest House in 1979

Anna Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

Gardiner Place, Dublin 1. Challenges and Opportunities for a Georgian street in Limbo

Donough Cahill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2006
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Georgian architecture
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

Is it not about Banksy?

Sacha Cahill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
BA

Subject: Graffiti and Media
Country: England
Period: 21st Century

10,000 words

A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art

Susan Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2019
PhD

Subject: Western Aesthetics

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

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

Myles Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2014
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

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

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

Susan Campbell

Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 20th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

Ercole de' Roberti and the Griffoni Predella

Stephen Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1985
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 15th Century

10,000 words

Irish Artist in France and Belgium 1850-1914

Julian Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1980
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: France / Belgium
Period: 19th to 20th Century

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

Ahead of the Class: Sir John Leslie, HRHA, 1822-1916

Myles Campbell
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
20,000

Mary McIntyre and the Contemporary Landscape: An Enquiry into the Impact of Place on the Work of Photographer Mary McIntyre

Geraldine Canavan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Photography: Landscape
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Yvonne Scott
20,000

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

Ronan Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Century: 16th Century

10,000 words

The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

Moya Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1997
BA

Subject: Manuscript
Country: Iran
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

Unravelling the origins of the Raphael Cartoons in the National Gallery of Ireland: An Investigation of the Origins of the NGI Cartoons and their Relationship to the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons in the V & A

Christine Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
BA

Subject: Painting, Cartoons, Tapestry and Restoration
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation examines the origins of two full size tapestry cartoons in

the National Gallery of Ireland. Archival research was undertaken to provide documentary evidence for the provenance of the cartoons. An examination of the structure of the cartoons and a close visual analysis was carried out in order in order to provide objective criteria against which the Raphael tapestry cartoons in the V & A could be compared. The findings of this research were assimilated into a plausible historical context of tapestry and cartoon production. Overall findings suggest that the NGI cartoons are sixteenth century working tapestry cartoons, that were directly replicated from the Raphael tapestry cartoons by a process of spolvero. Their fluency and quality of painting suggest that an artist of note, who was familiar with the nuances of Raphael’s work and tapestry cartoons, was responsible for their execution.

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

Sophie Carey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2018
BA

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

10,000 words

This dissertation grew out of an initial inquiry into abolitionist paintings which led to the discovery of ‘Oath of the Ancestors’ by Guillaume Guillon-Lethere. Initial research into the artist (which required several variations of his surname: Le Thiers, Lethier, Lethiere) elicited few results which revealed the lack of interest and scholarship that has been devoted to Lethiere. As a result, this dissertation is a study of Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832), a French artist of mixed-race origins from Guadelope in the French West Indies. The dissertation seeks to prove that the lack of scholarship undertaken on the artist’s work does not reflect his prominence as an artist of his time. Lethere was not an obscure painting, but rather was one of the most prominent figures of the French art world at the end of a turbulent century.

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

‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career

Nicola Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
BA

Subject: Painting and Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation presents an investigation of the reasons behind the cessation of Paul Egestorff’s artistic career. The author considers Egestorff’s training under Mainie Jellett and examines the extent to which his work can be said to have progressed in style and subject matter from her teaching. His exhibitions with the Royal Hibernian Academy, Water Colour Society of Ireland, Irish Exhibition of Living Art and the White Stag Group are discussed. Particular attention is paid to the artist’s one-man show at the Grafton Gallery in 1949 with a view to assessing the relevance of the critical reception of the exhibition as the catalyst for the artist’s decision to cease painting. The author also considers the resurrgence and reassesment of Egestorff’s work in the 1990’s. The dissertation icludes extensive appendices of primary source material, such as exhibition histories, critical reviews, original catalogues

Caravaggio’s Gay Guys?

Shannon Carroll
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
BA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 17th Century

10,000 words

This dissertation is a contemporary exploration and reconsideration of some of the key paintings by Caravaggio, which are often considered to evoke a sense of homoeroticism. Certain aspects of these paintings are read as homosexual inclinations of the artist and have been used as the basis for arguments supporting the artist’s homosexuality. Seductive homosexual aspects and connotations have been extrapolated from his paintings in their analysis, a continuation of which can also be seen in the work of his followers.The resulting debate emerging from this, has glorified Caravaggio and his work, creating a modern gay icon. The research conducted throughout this thesis, hopes to acknowledge these aspects of Caravaggio and his followers work, but seeks to present how this acclaimed homosexual status may be based on dogmatic terms.

Defining a Methodology for the Conservation of a Mid 20th Century Building Adapted to New Use, St Peter's College 1938 Building, Wexford

John Peter Carton
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2014
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Conservation
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Approx. 15,000

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 Eighteenth Century Hospitals in Dublin

Noreen Casey
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1982
BA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

10,000 words

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Cats in the Book of Kells

Context and continuity: A research of the cross-inscribed slabs and related monuments of Inishmurray Island

Billy Quinn: An Artist for a Time of Plague, Work from the 1990s

Samuel Lover : His life and work

‘Unrealised’: An Irish House for an Irish Leader Architectural Competition for a Residence for the Taoiseach and a State Guest House in 1979

Gardiner Place, Dublin 1. Challenges and Opportunities for a Georgian street in Limbo

Is it not about Banksy?

A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

From the ‘Painterly’ to Multiplicity: Towards an ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ as Evidenced in the Work of Mark Francis

Ercole de' Roberti and the Griffoni Predella

Irish Artist in France and Belgium 1850-1914

Ahead of the Class: Sir John Leslie, HRHA, 1822-1916

Mary McIntyre and the Contemporary Landscape: An Enquiry into the Impact of Place on the Work of Photographer Mary McIntyre

‘Not Many Years Ago Inhabited’ A Critical Evaluation of the Restoration of Bremore Castle, Balbriggan

The Taqrir of al-Dashtaki. Chester Beatty Library manuscript Ar4220 an illustrated treatise on astronomy written in Arabic in 16th century Persia.

Unravelling the origins of the Raphael Cartoons in the National Gallery of Ireland: An Investigation of the Origins of the NGI Cartoons and their Relationship to the Raphael Tapestry Cartoons in the V & A

Guillaume Guillon-Lethiere (1760-1832) An investigation into the life and works of al mixed-race Caribbean artist in pre and post-revolutionary France

An Tur Gloine and Michael Healy (1873-1941)

‘A Blind Alley’: The Cessation of Paul Egestorff’s Artistic Career

Caravaggio’s Gay Guys?

Defining a Methodology for the Conservation of a Mid 20th Century Building Adapted to New Use, St Peter's College 1938 Building, Wexford

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

The Eighteenth Century Hospitals in Dublin

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