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The Costume Department in Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) from 1961 to 2016: A History and Evaluation through Three Drama Case Studies

Lynda Dunne
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Fragments of Material Culture: A Study of the Late Seventeenth Century Lead Drinking Glasses from the Rathfarnham Hoard

Fiona Dunne
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 17th Century

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

Don't go far: Identity and Modernity in Irish Railway Design

Aniz Duran
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland

15,000-20,000 words

The Aesthetic of the Fragment

Sarah Durcan
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1998
MA

Subject: Art Theory

Supervisor: Dr. Susanne McNab
Approx. 20,000 words

Devotion and Tradition in Stained Glass in Twentieth Century Ireland: Earley & Co. 1903-1953

Michael Earley
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2023
PhD

Subject: Stained Glass
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Lisa Godson
90,000 words

Dublin's Garden Suburb: The Marino Housing Scheme 1910-1930

Mairead Enright
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

Debating Demos

Claire Francis Feeley
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2008
MA

Subject: Material Culture

Supervisor: Dr. Francis Halsall
Approx. 20,000 words

How Did We Get Here?: Placemaking and the Design of Mape in the Third Wave City

Gael Fenning Welstead
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture

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

Victorian Gallery: Louisa Tenison's Photographic and Mixed Media Album, 1864-1874

Orla Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: England
19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Material Culture of Engraving in Dublin in the Late Eighteenth Century: The work of Patrick Maguire, c. 1769-1820

Colette Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2014
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Gaeltarra Éireann: Twentieth Century Irish textiles initiative

Claire Fitzpatrick
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2022
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

Meta-art: Scripting Discourse

Jessica Foley
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2008
MA

Subject: Art Theory
Period: Late 20th Century to 21st Century

Approx. 20,000 words

Limerick gloves: 1780 - 1825

Liza Foley
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2011
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 18th Century to 19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Disc Root Cutting Machines of Pierce's of Wexford, Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers

Paul Fortune
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Agricultural Machinery
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th and 20th Century

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

Reclaiming Remix: the Critical Role of Sampling in Transformative Works

Owen Gallagher
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2014
PhD

Subject: Art

Supervisor: Dr Paul O'Brien
80,000-100,000 words

A Missing Materiality: The Visual and Material Culture of the Irish Women's Suffrage Movement

Donna Gilligan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2016
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

The Paradox of Comic Creativity : Raymond Pettibon, Baudelaire, Comics and Mass Art

David Goldbold
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2007
PhD

Subject: Art Theory / Comics

80,000-100,000 words

The Architecture of Dublin's Neo-Classical Roman Catholic Churches, 1802-1862

Brendan Grimes
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2005
PhD

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

Supervisor: Paul Caffrey

Out of Bounds: Constructions of Femininity in Western Cultural Discourse

Neasa Hardiman
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1993
MA

Subject: Art Theory

Supervisor: Joan Fowler
Approx. 30,000 - 40,000 words

The Architecture of Garinish Island, Co Cork: Bryce House- the Gardener's Cottage transformed

Bernice Harrison
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2017
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland: Cork

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

Shop Window to Showboat: South King Street 1970-1980

Ciara Harrison
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

The Surface of 'Far from Heaven'

Catherine Harty
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2009
MA

Approx. 20,000 words

Jewellery in the Kilkenny Design Workshops from 1963 to 1988

Breda Haugh
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2012
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

A Fitting Profession: The Dressmakers of Dublin 1870-1920

Elaine Hewitt
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 19th and early 20th century

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