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M.A. Design History and Material Culture

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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

Number 29, Lower Fitzwilliam Street: an Exploration of a Dublin Museum of Georgian Home Life

Feargha Ni Bhroin
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Museology / Historic Houses as Museums
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th to 21st Century

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

Costume Design and Representation: A Case Study of Costume for Film in Irish Historical Drama

Eimer Ni Mhaoldomhnaigh
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

A Need for Materiality: Understanding Do It Yourself Graves at a Suburban Dublin Cemetary

Nicos Nicolau
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Dublin

15,000-20,000 words

Bicycle, wagon, four wheeler, pilla, mattress, boot, shoe, camp, ashes, steel wool, soap pads, brillo pads… on settler discourses about Traveller material culture

Seamus Nolan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2019
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: England, Ireland

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

Demonstrators Employed by the Electricity Supply Board 1961-1973

Geraldine O’Brien
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2009
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

A Re-Appropriation of the Gothic: The Catholic Church and the Consolidation of Power in mid Nineteenth-Century Ireland

Eimir O’Brien
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: Mid-19th Century

Studio Donegal: A Handweaving Mill, 1987-2017

Veronica O’Brien
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

From Trophy to Taboo: A Social and Cultural History of Fur wearing in Twentieth-Century Dublin

Joan O'Cleary
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Dublin

15,000-20,000 words

An Examination of the Social, Cultural and Economic Values Embodied in the Bottom Drawer in Ireland 1900-1960

Deirdre O'Connell
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2005
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

Supervisor: John Turpin
15,000-20,000 words

The Material Culture of Courtship and the Traveller Wedding

Bronagh O'Connor
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Irish Material Culture

15,000-20,000 words

Arnott's of Henry Street, Dublin; a Department Store in Context

Gabrielle O'Connor
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Retailing History
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: 20th Century

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

The Irish Toy Making Industry 1850-1950 with Particular Emphasis on Rural Ireland

Sorcha O'Donnell
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2005
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Children's Toys
Country: Ireland
Period: Mid 19th to Mid 20th Century

Supervisor: Nicola Gordon Bowe

Designing Visibility: Dublin Street Lighting in 1938

Saive O’Donoghue
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Street Lighting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Model Farm Kitchen: The ICA as an Agent of Modernity, 1950-65

Bernadette O’Neill
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

A Contextual Study of the Display of Ornamental China in the 17th and 18th Irish Interior

Clare O'Reilly
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: China
Country: Ireland
Period: 17th and 18th Century

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

The Dublin Tramway: Navigating the Nexus in the Early Twentieth Century

Glen O’Sullivan
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 Lisa Godson
15,000-20,000 words

Designing the family meal. The conceptualisation, construction and idealisation of domestic commensality in Ireland in the mid-20th century

Emily O'Sullivan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2024
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

The Material Culture of Medicine in the Irish Home c.1760 - c.1830

Emma O'Toole
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture and Medical History
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th and 19th Century

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

The Material Culture of Packaging and Advertising in the Irish Flour Milling Industry (1920-1970)

Stephen Odlum
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Right and Correct: WMD McCormick's Seven Donegal Churches

Carole Pollard
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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