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Making their Mark: Irish Printmakers in Context c.1880-1930

Angela Griffith
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

Subject: Print
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to 20th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

The Kilkenny Marble Works: A Family Business Enterprise

Tony Hand
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
PhD

Subject: Masonry
Country: Ireland: Kilkenny

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

This thesis is the first comprehensive study of the Colies family of Kilkenny and their business enterprise, the Kilkenny Marble Works. It examines how this local industry influenced the marble trade on a national and international scale. The founder of this venture, Alderman William Colles (1702-1770), is considered to have been the first person in the British Isles to have used water powered machinery to cut and polish the famous black marble of Kilkenny. While examining the influence of the Kilkenny Marble Works on the decorative and architectural heritage of Ireland and further afield, this study also traces the role of this venture in the industrial and economic development of the country over a period of almost two centuries. The first source examined for this study was archival material. Eighteenth-century manuscripts in Ireland, Britain and America reveal that Irish marble, particularly Kilkenny marble, was a much sought after commodity. Customs records give some indication as to the extent of Ireland’s involvement in the marble trade during the eighteenth century. Within a short time of its inception, the Kilkenny Marble Works became a prime producer of decorative marble ornaments and was seen as a model of progress and improvement in many parts of the world.

Cross Currents in Domestic Development: the Town House in London and Dublin, 1720-1760

Melanie Hayes
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 18th Century

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

Studies in Drawing Practice and Collecting in Madrid c.1752-1808

Beatriz Hidalgo Caldas
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
PhD

Subject: Drawing and Collecting
Country: Spain
Period: 18th and Early 19th Century

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

The Uses of Gothic in Irish Domestic and Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1785-1829

Judith Hill
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2016
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century to 19th Century

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

(Re)Imagining the Domestic in Contemporary Irish Art

Humphries, Jane
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2012
PhD

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

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

An Archaeological and Art-Historical Investigation of the Supposed Tenth Century Hiatus in Irish Art: with Reference to Excavations at Ballinderry Crannóg No. 1, Co. Westmeath, 1932, and Dublin City, 1962-1981

Ruth Claire Johnson.
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1998
PhD

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 10th Century

Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940

Roy Johnston
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1992
PhD

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

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

Products of the Celtic Revival: Facsimiles of Irish Archaeological Metalwork and Jewellery, 1890-1940

Tara Kelly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2013
PhD

Subject: Facsimiles, Metalwork
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Philip McEvansoneya
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Issues, Preoccupations and Interrogations: Art Practice in Northern Ireland 1977-92

William Kelly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1994
PhD

Subject: Painting
Country: Northern Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

Perfect Ambition, Thomas Bodkin : a Life, with Particular Reference to his Influence on the Early Development of Irish Cultural Policy

Anne Kelly
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2002
PhD

Subject: Iconography
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

Irish Art and Modernism 1920-1949

Samuel Brian Kennedy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1987
PhD

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

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

An Architectural History of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin c.1540-c.1870

Stuart Kinsella
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: 16th to 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

The Cult and Iconography of Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe with Particular Reference to Florence 1343 to 1528

Catherine Alice Lawless
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2000
PhD

Subject: Iconography
Country: Europe and Italy
Period: 14th Century to 16th Century

Imitation, Novelty and Eclecticism in the Architecture of Domenichino

Wulf Lüdicke
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2011
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century to 17th Century

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

This thesis is a building by building i.e. drawing by drawing analysis of Domenichino's entire architectural oeuvre. Focusing on the aspect of imitation as a concept in art theory this examination is largely structured along Domenichino’s use of iconic architectural prototypes. Such a systematic approach was necessary to trace and identify possible sources. On this basis I was able to clarify historical and regional influences, and how imitative techniques of sources led to innovation. Thereby I established a system for techniques of imitation used by Domenichino. These involved fusion, monumentalisation, contrapposto, simplification, sculptural richness of architecture, illusionism as well as romanisation of the modern and modernisation of the roman sources among other techniques. As a result a clear picture of his personal stylistic preferences for architectural-sculptural richness emerges which is in some way consistent with his painterly and decorative works but also reveals fundamental differences with regard to regional influences. In light of this, an evaluation of the influences and manifestations of art theoretical concepts of the ideal and beauty could be considered. I contrasted Domenichino’s work with contemporary trends and compared it with the achievements of high baroque architects such as Pietro da Cortona, Bernini, Carlo Rainaldi and Borromini in order to establish his unique place in early seventeenth-century. In some cases I was able to point out connections of individual works to French influences and to the Bolognese Sebastiano Serlio.

British Imagination, Colonial Ideology and the Representation of Landscape Space in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa

John McAleer
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2005
PhD

Subject: Landscape
Country: South Africa
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip McEvansoneya

The Planning and Use of Space in Irish houses 1730-1830

Patricia McCarthy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2009
PhD

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

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

Much has been written about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century country houses, in both Ireland and Britain. One of the most important books among the wealth of information about British houses is Mark Girouard's seminal work, Life in the English country house (1978), that blends the architecture of the house (the style and the plan), with its social life. Girouard shows how the plan of the house was used by those who lived in it, and by those who visited it. To date, however, there has been no such comprehensive study made of the subject as it relates to Ireland. In recent years much scholarship has been published by Irish writers on various aspects of the house, in both town and country, and it seems like a good time to redress that balance somewhat. By taking just one hundred years (1730 to 1830) as a time span, this thesis is an effort to gather some of this together, adding evidence gleaned from contemporary inventories and literature, and primary sources such as correspondence, diaries, novels and travellers' observations.

Renaissance de La Borne: A Study of the Period of Transition From Traditional Pottery-Making Village to Centre of Contemporary Ceramic Creation

Patrick M. McCoy
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1991
PhD

Subject: Ceramics
Country: France

Francesco Borromini's Drawings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in the Context of Architectural Practice in 17th-Century Rome

John McCrossan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 16th Century

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

Landscape History and Management of the Phoenix Park 1800-1880

John McCullen
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2006
PhD

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

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

Catholic Church Architecture and Art Industry in Ireland, 1850-1922

Caroline McGee
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2017
PhD

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century to 20th Century

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

Printing types in the Irish character

Dermot McGuinne
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1989
PhD

Subject: Printing
Country: Ireland

Irish Figure Sculpture in the Twelfth Century

Suzanne McNab
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
1986
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 12th Century

Supervisor: Prof. Roger Stalley
Approx. 60,000 - 80,000 words

Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art

Kathryn Milligan
Trinity College Dublin
Department of History of Art and Architecture
2015
PhD

Subject: Art
Country: Ireland: Dublin

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

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Education Theses Register —Trinity College Dublin / Ph.D.

Making their Mark: Irish Printmakers in Context c.1880-1930

The Kilkenny Marble Works: A Family Business Enterprise

Cross Currents in Domestic Development: the Town House in London and Dublin, 1720-1760

Studies in Drawing Practice and Collecting in Madrid c.1752-1808

The Uses of Gothic in Irish Domestic and Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1785-1829

(Re)Imagining the Domestic in Contemporary Irish Art

An Archaeological and Art-Historical Investigation of the Supposed Tenth Century Hiatus in Irish Art: with Reference to Excavations at Ballinderry Crannóg No. 1, Co. Westmeath, 1932, and Dublin City, 1962-1981

Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940

Products of the Celtic Revival: Facsimiles of Irish Archaeological Metalwork and Jewellery, 1890-1940

Issues, Preoccupations and Interrogations: Art Practice in Northern Ireland 1977-92

Perfect Ambition, Thomas Bodkin : a Life, with Particular Reference to his Influence on the Early Development of Irish Cultural Policy

Irish Art and Modernism 1920-1949

An Architectural History of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin c.1540-c.1870

The Cult and Iconography of Saint Anne in Late Medieval Europe with Particular Reference to Florence 1343 to 1528

Imitation, Novelty and Eclecticism in the Architecture of Domenichino

British Imagination, Colonial Ideology and the Representation of Landscape Space in Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa

The Planning and Use of Space in Irish houses 1730-1830

Renaissance de La Borne: A Study of the Period of Transition From Traditional Pottery-Making Village to Centre of Contemporary Ceramic Creation

Francesco Borromini's Drawings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in the Context of Architectural Practice in 17th-Century Rome

Landscape History and Management of the Phoenix Park 1800-1880

Catholic Church Architecture and Art Industry in Ireland, 1850-1922

Printing types in the Irish character

Irish Figure Sculpture in the Twelfth Century

Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art

Education Theses Register —
Trinity College Dublin / Ph.D.