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The Presence of the Past in the South End, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA

Rose Mary Cullen
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2009
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: U.S.A

15,000-20,000 words

Irish Women Artists in Multimedia

Pauline Cummins
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2002
MA

Subject: Multimedia
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

'For the love of the binding' An exploration of the forces that shaped the George Mullen Bindery, 1800-1849

Julia Cummins
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2007
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Book Binding
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Dr Niamh O'Sullivan
15,000-20,000 words

Dublin's Huguenot Goldsmiths: The contribution of the Huguenots to the design, development and and manufacture of Irish silver, 1690-1750

Jessica Cunningham
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Silver
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 17th and early 18th Century

15,000-20,000 words

Saying it with Flowers: the Visual and Material Culture of Dublin's Flower Trade

Susan Curely Meyer
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland: Dublin

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

Crime and punishment in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland [on clothing and criminality]

Ellie Curran
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2019
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

For a Baroque Aesthetic: A Study of the Films of David Lynch

Michaela Cutaya
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2004
PhD

Subject: Film
Country: U.S.A
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Valerie Connor
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

Necessaires-des-Voyage of 'the Necessities of Travel': the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Tourism

S. J. Daley
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2012
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

Bochner's Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art

Lucy Dawe Lane
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2015
PhD

Subject: Conceptual Art
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Francis Halsall
80,000-100,000 words

St. Fin Barre's Cathedral and other Ecclesiastical Work in County Cork by William Burges, 1827-1881

Debbie Dawson
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1999
MA

Subject: Architecture/Social Studies
Country: Ireland: Cork
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: Nicola Gordon Bowe
Approx. 20,000 words

Costuming Ireland's Theatre and Film in the Twentieth Century

Veerle Dehaene
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 Hillary O'Kelly
15,000-20,000 words

Enduring Screen, Ephemeral Stage: the Material Culture of Cine-Variety in Dublin 1920 - 1962

David Devitt
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2011
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

A Group of Chinese Textiles of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911

Cliodna Devitt
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1989
MA

Subject: Textiles
Country: China
Period: 17th to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: Nicola Gordon Bowe
Approx. 30,000 - 40,000 words

Egan Harps of the Early 19th Century, in the Context of the History of Harps in Ireland

Anne Dolphin
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2003
MA

Subject: Harps
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
Approx. 20,000 words

Shopping for Fashionable Dress in Edwardian Dublin

Sara Donaldson
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Fashion
Country: Ireland
Period: Early 20th Century

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

Cut and Paste Culture: an Exploration of Collage's Use in Contemporary Fashion Advertisement

Maeve Donovan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Fashion, Advertisement
Country: Ireland
Subject: 21st Century

Supervisor: Dr David Crowley
15,000-20,000 words

Sibthorpe and Son, Ltd., An Irish Interior Decorating Company c.1900

Emma H. Dowdall
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Interior Design
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

Irene Gilbert, Irish Couturier 1947-1969

Jennifer Downey
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2018
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

20 Ringsend Road and the Work of Vincent Kelly (1895-1975) Ireland's Forgotten First Architect

Aoife Doyle
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2013
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

Artisan Sculpture and the Stone Carving Firms of Dublin, 1859-1910

Thomas Duffy
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1999
PhD

Subject: Sculpture
Country: Ireland: Dublin
Period: Mid 19th to Early 20th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
Approx. 60,000-80,000 words

‘Dress-up your cooking’: Maura O’Casey and continental cookery instruction in Ireland, 1957-1958

Lisa Duffy
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: Anna Moran
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

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

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

Education Theses Register —School of Visual Culture

The Presence of the Past in the South End, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, USA

Irish Women Artists in Multimedia

'For the love of the binding' An exploration of the forces that shaped the George Mullen Bindery, 1800-1849

Dublin's Huguenot Goldsmiths: The contribution of the Huguenots to the design, development and and manufacture of Irish silver, 1690-1750

Saying it with Flowers: the Visual and Material Culture of Dublin's Flower Trade

Crime and punishment in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland [on clothing and criminality]

For a Baroque Aesthetic: A Study of the Films of David Lynch

Necessaires-des-Voyage of 'the Necessities of Travel': the Material Culture of Nineteenth-Century Tourism

Bochner's Intermittent Objects: Aesthetics, Embodiment and Affect in Conceptual Art

St. Fin Barre's Cathedral and other Ecclesiastical Work in County Cork by William Burges, 1827-1881

Costuming Ireland's Theatre and Film in the Twentieth Century

Enduring Screen, Ephemeral Stage: the Material Culture of Cine-Variety in Dublin 1920 - 1962

A Group of Chinese Textiles of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911

Egan Harps of the Early 19th Century, in the Context of the History of Harps in Ireland

Shopping for Fashionable Dress in Edwardian Dublin

Cut and Paste Culture: an Exploration of Collage's Use in Contemporary Fashion Advertisement

Sibthorpe and Son, Ltd., An Irish Interior Decorating Company c.1900

Irene Gilbert, Irish Couturier 1947-1969

20 Ringsend Road and the Work of Vincent Kelly (1895-1975) Ireland's Forgotten First Architect

Artisan Sculpture and the Stone Carving Firms of Dublin, 1859-1910

‘Dress-up your cooking’: Maura O’Casey and continental cookery instruction in Ireland, 1957-1958

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

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

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

Education Theses Register —
School of Visual Culture