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Irene Gilbert, Irish Couturier 1947-1969

Jennifer Downey
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Hilary O'Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

20 Ringsend Road and the Work of Vincent Kelly (1895-1975) Ireland's Forgotten First Architect

Aoife Doyle
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Paul Caffrey
15,000-20,000 words

‘Dress-up your cooking’: Maura O’Casey and continental cookery instruction in Ireland, 1957-1958

Lisa Duffy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2022
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Anna Moran
15,000-20,000 words

Fragments of Material Culture: A Study of the Late Seventeenth Century Lead Drinking Glasses from the Rathfarnham Hoard

Fiona Dunne
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 17th Century

Supervisor: Dr Hilary O'Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

The Costume Department in Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) from 1961 to 2016: A History and Evaluation through Three Drama Case Studies

Lynda Dunne
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century to 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Hillary O'Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

Don't go far: Identity and Modernity in Irish Railway Design

Aniz Duran
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland

15,000-20,000 words

Dublin's Garden Suburb: The Marino Housing Scheme 1910-1930

Mairead Enright
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: Early 20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

How Did We Get Here?: Placemaking and the Design of Mape in the Third Wave City

Gael Fenning Welstead
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture

Supervisor: Dr Hilary O'Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

Gaeltarra Éireann: Twentieth Century Irish textiles initiative

Claire Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2022
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Hilary O’Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

The Material Culture of Engraving in Dublin in the Late Eighteenth Century: The work of Patrick Maguire, c. 1769-1820

Colette Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2014
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Paul Caffrey
15,000-20,000 words

Victorian Gallery: Louisa Tenison's Photographic and Mixed Media Album, 1864-1874

Orla Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: England
19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

Limerick gloves: 1780 - 1825

Liza Foley
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2011
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century to 19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Disc Root Cutting Machines of Pierce's of Wexford, Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers

Paul Fortune
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Agricultural Machinery
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

Supervisor: Nicola Gordon Bowe
15,000-20,000 words

A Missing Materiality: The Visual and Material Culture of the Irish Women's Suffrage Movement

Donna Gilligan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Paul Caffrey
15,000-20,000 words

Shop Window to Showboat: South King Street 1970-1980

Ciara Harrison
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2015
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th century

15,000-20,000 words

The Architecture of Garinish Island, Co Cork: Bryce House- the Gardener's Cottage transformed

Bernice Harrison
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Cork

Supervisor: Dr Paul Caffrey
15,000-20,000 words

Jewellery in the Kilkenny Design Workshops from 1963 to 1988

Breda Haugh
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2012
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Kilkenny
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Godson
15,000-20,000 words

A Fitting Profession: The Dressmakers of Dublin 1870-1920

Elaine Hewitt
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 19th and early 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Godson
15,000-20,000 words

Are You a Woman or are you a Nun?

Adelle Hickey
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2015
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture

15,000-20,000 words

The Role of the Habit in Constructing the Identity of the Nun: Habits Worn by the Sisters of Mercy c.1831-1950

Adele Hickey
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Dress, Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to 20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

Prescribing Ideologies: Symptoms of Modernism and Modernity in Irish Government Health Campaigns 1950-1964

Nina Holmes
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2012
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Collecting of Sevres in Ireland and the Formation of the National Museum of Ireland Collection

Rory Hutton
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2015
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Design and Consumption of Looking Glasses in Ireland in the Late 18th and Early 19th Century

Aoife Kavanagh
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Mirrors
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 18th Century and Early 19th Century

Supervisor: Paul Caffrey
15,000-20,000 words

The Grafton Outfitter: Slyne & Co. 1885-1937

Emma Kelly
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2020
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th & 20th Century

Supervisor: Hilary O’Kelly
15,000-20,000 words