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The American Painter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: Depicting Female gender and the Social Interactions Between Working-Class and Upper-Class Women in Philadelphia, 1905-1913

Anna Elizabeth Shaver
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2013
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: America
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

War and Male Interpretations: As Portrayed by Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon

Rachel Sheppard
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

1950s Flat Housing and Modernism: Dublin and Warsaw Compared and Contrasted

Natalia Sikora
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2022
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland and Poland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Lynda Mulvin
79 pages

The Sculpture of Michael Warren Stands its Ground

Christine Sisk
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th and 21st Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

Wigs in the Long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Charlotte Slevin
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (masters thesis)

Subject: Wigs in the 18th Century
Country: Ireland/ Europe
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
127 pages

Wigs in the long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Charlotte Slevin
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2021
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Wigs in the 18th Century
Country: Ireland/ Europe
Period: 18th Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
127 pages

The Divided Memory: the move towards an abstract aesthetic vision in the Holocaust memories of the two Germanies

Helen Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
1995
MA

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Germany
Period: 20th century

Supervisor: Dr Paula Murphy
15,000 words

Representations of Women in Pre-Raphaelite Art Inspired by Literature, 1848-1910

Samantha Geraldine Smith
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2013
MA

Subject: Art
Country: Britain
Period: 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
21,000 words

Painting Vital Visions: Beauty and Brutality in the late work of Titian and Cy Twombly

Monika Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Italy
Period: 16th Century and 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor John Loughman
15,000 words

Capturing the Unicorn: Gustave Moreau’s Les Licornes (1885)

Hillary Smith
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2019
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Painting
Country: France
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr John Loughman
79 pages

The Future of the Past The Documentation Centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lower Saxony, Germany: A Study of the Comparative Development of the Commemoration of Vietnam of Nazi Crimes as Depicted in Contemporary Memorial Museums

Carla Soden
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2018
MA

Subject: Museums
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Emily Mark-Fitzgerald
15,000 words

Inspiring The Secret of Kells: the animation of The Book of Kells and Irish Insular art

Hannah Spendlove
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Animation/Iconography/Celtic Art
Country: Ireland
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Conor Lucey
70 pages

The Contribution of ‘Sloppy Craft’ to the Changing Dynamics of Craft in Contemporary Art

Ema Staunton
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2020
MA (minor thesis)

Subject: Textile Art
Country: America and Europe
Period: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr Conor Lucey
102 pages

Buffalo: Blueprint for the modern American Metropolis

Susan Storey
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2012
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: United States
Period: 19th-20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James- Chakraborty
15,000 words

The degree to which the "European city discourse" applied in Dublin docklands

Maike Streit
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2014
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

A Flesh Perspective: Suzanne Valadon and Jenny Saville

Shauna Sweeney
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2012
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Britain and France
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Philip Cottrell
15,000 words

The Victorian Expansion of Dublin’s South Suburbs – A Case History: St Michael’s College

Annette Sweeney
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2009
MA

Subject: Architecture and Decorative Arts
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Failed Utopias of the Avant-Garde in Tacita Dean and William Kentridge

Irish Ella Frances Swift
University College Cork
Faculty of Arts and Celtics Studies' Department of History of Art
2012
MA

Subject: Film
Country: South Africa, Britain
Period: 21st Century

20,000 words

Kenure Park, Rush, Co Dublin

Eimear Synott
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2000
MA

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

Supervisor: Professor Michael McCarthy and Dr. Christine Casey
15,000 words

Maria Spilsbury Taylor (1777-1820)

Eva Sztabholz
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2017
MA

Subject: Women Portrait Artists
Country: Ireland and England
Period: 18th and 19th century

Supervisor: Dr Nicola Figgis
15,000 words

A Modern Dance of the Death: The Resurrection of the Totentanz in German Expressionist Art

Jodie Thomas
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2015
MA

Subject: German Expressionist Art
Country: Germany
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty
15,000 words

A Social History of Fifteenth Century Irish Effigial Tomb Sculpture

Leslie Ann Thornton
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2023
MA (Minor Thesis)

Subject: Tomb Sculpture/Iconography
Country: Ireland
Period: 15th Century

Supervisor: Dr Sean Leatherbury
132 pages

Houses of the Great: An Architectural Examination of J.J. McCarthy's Cathedrals

Shelby Todd
University College Dublin
School of Art History and Cultural Policy
2016
MA

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Associate Professor Lynda Mulvin
15,000 words

Reclaiming the Colonized Body: Shifting Feminist Notions in Visual Art Production in the 1970 & 1980s

Derek Towell
University of Limerick
College of Humanities, Department of History (History of Art Postgraduate Courses only)
2004
MA

Subject: Art Theory
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Catherine Lawless
Approx. 33,000 words

Education Theses Register —M.A.

The American Painter Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones: Depicting Female gender and the Social Interactions Between Working-Class and Upper-Class Women in Philadelphia, 1905-1913

War and Male Interpretations: As Portrayed by Egon Schiele and Francis Bacon

1950s Flat Housing and Modernism: Dublin and Warsaw Compared and Contrasted

The Sculpture of Michael Warren Stands its Ground

Wigs in the Long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

Wigs in the long Eighteenth Century: from an Irish Perspective

The Divided Memory: the move towards an abstract aesthetic vision in the Holocaust memories of the two Germanies

Representations of Women in Pre-Raphaelite Art Inspired by Literature, 1848-1910

Painting Vital Visions: Beauty and Brutality in the late work of Titian and Cy Twombly

Capturing the Unicorn: Gustave Moreau’s Les Licornes (1885)

The Future of the Past The Documentation Centre at the Bergen-Belsen Memorial in Lower Saxony, Germany: A Study of the Comparative Development of the Commemoration of Vietnam of Nazi Crimes as Depicted in Contemporary Memorial Museums

Inspiring The Secret of Kells: the animation of The Book of Kells and Irish Insular art

The Contribution of ‘Sloppy Craft’ to the Changing Dynamics of Craft in Contemporary Art

Buffalo: Blueprint for the modern American Metropolis

The degree to which the "European city discourse" applied in Dublin docklands

A Flesh Perspective: Suzanne Valadon and Jenny Saville

The Victorian Expansion of Dublin’s South Suburbs – A Case History: St Michael’s College

Failed Utopias of the Avant-Garde in Tacita Dean and William Kentridge

Kenure Park, Rush, Co Dublin

Maria Spilsbury Taylor (1777-1820)

A Modern Dance of the Death: The Resurrection of the Totentanz in German Expressionist Art

A Social History of Fifteenth Century Irish Effigial Tomb Sculpture

Houses of the Great: An Architectural Examination of J.J. McCarthy's Cathedrals

Reclaiming the Colonized Body: Shifting Feminist Notions in Visual Art Production in the 1970 & 1980s

Education Theses Register —
M.A.