Recently Completed Theses
2020-21
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Shorthall, William |
The Early Irish Free State Government and the Visual Arts |
Ph.D. |
Angela Griffith |
2019-20
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Durkan, Aisling |
Eighteenth-Century Drogheda: Building a Provincial Town |
Ph.D. |
Christine Casey |
Gillis, John |
The Faddan More Psalter |
Ph.D. |
Laura Cleaver |
2018-19
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Baker, Nina |
The Impact of Commentary on Text and Image in Early Thirteenth Century Bibles Produced in France |
M. Litt. |
Laura Cleaver |
Campbell, Susan |
A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art |
Ph.D. |
Yvonne Scott |
Mortensen, Kerstina |
Into the Void: Translating Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1910 |
Ph.D. |
Yvonne Scott |
Murphy, Alexandra |
Doing it for themselves: Artist-Run Gallery Spaces in Contemporary Ireland |
Ph. D. |
Yvonne Scott |
2017-18
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Badzmierowska, Karolina |
Digital Approaches to the History of Art and Architecture Online |
PhD |
Peter Cherry/Hugh Denard |
Sedovic, Katherine |
Mythical King or Laical Christ Figure? The Marrying of the Sacred and the Secular in Fourteenth Century French Arthurian Illuminations |
PhD |
Laura Cleaver |
2016-17
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Brady, Aoife |
Guido Reni: Workshop Practices and Painting Techniques |
PhD |
Peter Cherry |
Gleeson, Jennifer |
The Significance of Studs in Insular Art, 7th to 12th Centuries |
PhD |
Rachel Moss |
McCrossan, John |
Francesco Borromini's Drawings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in the Context of Architectural Practice in 17th-Century Rome |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
McGee, Caroline |
Catholic Church Architecture and Art Industry in Ireland, 1850-1922 |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
2015-16
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Hayes, Melanie |
Cross Currents in Domestic Development: the Town House in London and Dublin, 1720-1760 |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
Hill, Judith |
The Uses of Gothic in Irish Domestic and Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1785-1829 |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
Thomas, Karl |
The Artist's Biography as a Source of Meaning |
PhD |
Yvonne Scott |
2014-15
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Fitzgibbon, Jennifer |
Mobile encounters: artists’ mobility between Ireland and Britain and the development of performance, video and multimedia practices (1975-1999) |
PhD |
Yvonne Scott |
Milligan, Kathryn |
Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art |
PhD |
Yvonne Scott |
Purkayasth, Sayandeep |
A Hierarchical Image Processing Approach to Analysis of Early Medieval Manuscript Art |
PhD |
Laura Cleaver / John Dingliana |
2013-14
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Campbell, Myles |
English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875 |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
Dornan, Antoinette |
The Houses of the Augustinian canons in Ireland |
MLitt |
Rachel Moss |
Galavan, Susan |
A Study of the Victorian Suburban House in Dublin |
PhD |
Christine Casey |
Ralph, Karen |
Prestige, Power and Patronage: Commissioning Illuminated Manuscripts and Material Culture in Late Medieval Ireland |
PhD |
Rachel Moss / Philip McEvansoneya |
2012-13
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Durkan, Ciaran |
Painting della Natura: The importance of nature in the art of painting in Seventeenth century Rome |
MLitt |
Peter Cherry |
Evangelisti, Isabella |
The Nude in Modern Irish Art: Tradition and Transgression. An exploration of themes and trends in the representation of the nude in twentieth century Irish art. |
PhD |
Yvonne Scott |
Hidalgo, Beatriz |
Drawing in Spain in the Eighteenth Century at the Court of Madrid |
PhD |
Peter Cherry |
Humphries, Jane |
(Re)imagining the domestic in contemporary Irish Art |
PhD |
Yvonne Scott |
Kelly, Tara |
Products of the Celtic Revival: Facsimiles of Irish Archaeological Metalwork and Jewellery, 1890-1940 |
PhD |
Philip McEvansoneya |
Thomas, Colleen |
Beyond the Desert: The Narrative Composition of Medieval Images for the Hermits Paul and Antony Receiving Bread from the Raven |
PhD |
Roger Stalley / Laura Cleaver |
2011-12
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Behan, Avril |
An empirical approach to the study of Irish Medieval Ecclesiastical Architecture in Connaught and Ormond using Geomatics techniques |
PhD |
Rachel Moss |
Connaughton, Jill |
Personal Devotional Objects and the iconography of the Passion in Ireland, 1537-1800 |
PhD |
Rachel Moss |
Hand, Tony |
The Kilkenny Marble Works: A family business enterprise |
PhD |
Edward McParland |
Lüdicke, Wolf |
Imitation, novelty and eclecticism in the architecture of Domenichino |
PhD |
Edward McParland |
Nic Ghabhann, Niamh |
Reconstruction of the Gothic past – cultures of conservation |
PhD |
Roger Stalley |
2010-11
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
Hodson, Thomas |
Life and Works of Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934) |
MLitt |
Philip McEvansoneya |
Molesworth, William |
The patronage and collecting activities of the Molesworth Family |
MLitt |
Philip McEvansoneya |
Narkiewicz, Frances |
Liturgy and Architecture in Medieval Ireland, ca 100 – ca. 1315: Evidence from the Diocese of Killaloe |
PhD |
Roger Stalley |
O'Boyle, Aidan |
The assembly, display and dispersal of Irish collections 1750-1950 |
PhD |
Philip McEvansoneya |
Rowley, Ellen |
The culture of architecture in Dublin 1940-1965: a study of architectural discourse, key competitions and buildings of health, home and worship |
PhD |
Edward McParland |
2009-10
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| D'Alton, Martin Conor | The Architecture of the Leix Offaly Plantations | M.Litt | RS |
| Griffith, Angela Mary | Irish Printmaking from 1880-1970 | Ph.D | PC |
| Unkel, Jill Elizabeth | The Architectural Patronage of the Early Anglo-Norman Lords of Ireland | Ph.D | RS |
| Whitty, Audrey | The Albert M Bender Collection of Asian Art in the National Museum of Ireland and his literary and artistic contacts in Ireland and Asia | PhD | PMcE |
2008-09
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hurley, Livia | Public and Private Improvements in eighteenth-century Ireland: the case of the Conynghams of Slane, 1703-1821 | M.Litt | EMcP |
| Kinsella, Stuart | An architectural history of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin c.1540-1870 | PhD | RS |
| McCarthy, Patricia | The planning and use of space in Irish houses, 1730-1830 | PhD | EMcP |
| Montague, John Philip | John Rocque's 1756 Exact Survey of the city and suburbs Dublin, as evidence for the Archaeology of the mid-eighteenth century city | PhD | EMcP |
2007-08
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| O'Donovan, Danielle | Building the Butler Lordship, 1405-c.1552 | PhD | RS |
2006-07
| Name | Title | Degree | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eckett, Jane | The life and career of an Irish Flower Painter, Moyra Barry (1885-1960): Flower Painting and Cultural Conservatism in Early Twentieth Century Ireland | MLitt | YS |
| McCullen, John | Landscape History and Management of the Phoenix Park, 1800-1880 | PhD | EMcP |