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The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Frances Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
MPhil (Irish Art History)

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Yvonne Scott
20,000

Conservation at Castletown, Celbridge: A study

Stephen Timothy Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2008
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Conservation at Castletown
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

The Origins of Common Perceptions of Women in art; An investigation into the historical role of women in the visual arts as determined by the art establishment.

Tara Sarah Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
BA

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland and Italy
Period: 16th- 19th Century

10,000 words

“The Art of Persuasion.” A study of the tomb of Sir Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and his wife Lady Margaret Fitzgerald, in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

Valerie B. Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1993
BA

Subject: Sculpture and Funerary monuments
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

10,000 words

Spectatorship and the Gaze: The case of the Female Viewer

Katriona Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
BA

Subject: Art theory
Country: Various
Period: Various

10,000 words

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.

INFORMED INTERVENTION - methodology for recording historic buildings

Pierce Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2021
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Architectural Methodology

Approx. 15,000

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

Investigating into Pyrite in Quarries and the Damage it Causes to the Built Environment

Joseph Byrne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering
2013
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Building Repair and Conservation

Subject: Pyrite in quarries
Country: Ireland

Approx. 15,000

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.

‘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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Writing on the Walls: Exploring Drogheda’s Urban Art Trail

Kornelija Caplikaite
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Urban Art
Country: Ireland
Period: Contemporary

10,000 words

The Legacy of a Donegal handcrafted industry: Women’s roles and perceptions 1900-2000

Tara Carbery
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2025
BA

Subject: Craft, Gender Studies
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

10,000 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

Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin

The Mother Image in 20th Century Irish Art

Conservation at Castletown, Celbridge: A study

The Origins of Common Perceptions of Women in art; An investigation into the historical role of women in the visual arts as determined by the art establishment.

“The Art of Persuasion.” A study of the tomb of Sir Piers Butler, 8th Earl of Ormond and his wife Lady Margaret Fitzgerald, in St. Canice’s Cathedral, Kilkenny

Spectatorship and the Gaze: The case of the Female Viewer

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

INFORMED INTERVENTION - methodology for recording historic buildings

Cats in the Book of Kells

Investigating into Pyrite in Quarries and the Damage it Causes to the Built Environment

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

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

Samuel Lover : His life and work

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

Is it not about Banksy?

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

Irish Artist in France and Belgium 1850-1914

Ercole de' Roberti and the Griffoni Predella

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

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

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

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

Writing on the Walls: Exploring Drogheda’s Urban Art Trail

The Legacy of a Donegal handcrafted industry: Women’s roles and perceptions 1900-2000

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

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