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M.A. Design History and Material Culture

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Ireland of the Welcomes 1952-1960: the portrayal of Ireland as a tourist destination

Ditte Kummer
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Graphic Design History
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Ciaran Swan
15,000-20,000 words

Wedding Gifts in Ireland 1950-2006: A Reflection of Social Economic, Cultural and Material Change

Jennifer Lawlor
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Wedding Gifts / Irish Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

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

'A Moral and Industrial Reformation': The Irish Industrial Schoolchild as Maker, 1868-1922

Grace Lennon
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Long Kesh/ Maze Prison Handicrafts: Production, Consumption and Display, 1971-2016

Alison Mac Cormaic
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

Robots that suck: co-exisiting with artificially intelligent domestic appliances

Jess Majekodunmi
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2019
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Global
Period: 21st Century

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

How do the Irish die? – closeness and distance by design [on the materiality of death during the COVID pandemic]

Elaine Manley
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2020
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

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

LATCH: The Material Culture of Infant Feeding in Ireland since 1900

Elaine McDevitt
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Tradition and Innovation in the Making: The Kilkenny Woodworkers, 1906-1920

Frances McDonald
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

The Embroidery Artists of Ireland in Context

Mary McGuinnes
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland

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

Inconspicuous production: The genteel craft of amateur shoemaking in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth centuries

Noreen McGuire
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Period: Late 18th Century to Early 19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

Suitable Boys: An Examination of Men's Tailoring in Dublin 1950-1980

Therese Mckeone
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2015
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

‘ASOS’ the misguided tour of fast fashion

Aisling McLoughlin
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2022
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Global
Period: 21st Century

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

Pictures for the Wilds: Trains, Travels and Tourists in Co. Donegal, 1890-1914

Angela Mehegan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Advertising
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 19th Century and Early 20th Century

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

Mrs Meleiora Adlercron of Dawson Street: Widow: Household Management in Late 18th Century Dublin

Valerie Moffat
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

Supervisor: Sarah Foster
15,000-20,000 words

Under the Covers: Irish bedrooms in the long 19th century

Dolores McManus
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Irish Domestic Interior / 18th Century Society
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Conor Lucey
15,000-20,000 words

Mrs. Faris and the Pighouse Collection, Co. Cavan

Brona Molloy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2005
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Collections
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th, 19th and 20th Century

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

The Material Culture of Mountaineering in Ireland c. 1940-2006

Dervla Mulcahy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

The Material Culture of the Irish Showband Phenomenon: Fashion, Performance and Dance 1961-1968

Ruth Mulhern
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Showbands
Country: Ireland
Period: Mid to Late 20th Century

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

Green Coated Irishmen: the Design, Manufacture and Consumption of the National Army Uniform from 1920 - 1939 as an Expression of National Identity

Hannah Mullan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2011
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

An Historical & Design Analysis of the Influencing Factors on the Evolution of the Power's Dublin Whiskey Brand Between 1860-1960

Gillian Murphy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Mid 19th to mid-20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

When are we Getting the Real Thing? An Analysis of Stage Props and their Use in the Abbey Theatre Production

Eimer Murphy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: 21st Century

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

The Science of Sleep: A Study of Irish 18th and 19th Century Cradles

Elaine Murray
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Irish Country Furniture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

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

Casting Identity at the Belleek Pottery: Context, Business and Brand 1857-1907

Ciara Murray
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Ceramics
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

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

Ideas Matter : the Work of Richard Eckersley

Paul Nash
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Graphic Design History
Country: England
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Ciaran Swan
15,000-20,000 words