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Fancy Dress Ball Costumes in Dublin, 1886-1914

Grainne Reidy
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2009
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

The Material Culture of Blood Donation in Ireland, 1950 - 1975

Teresa Reilly
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

The material culture of Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries

Donna Rose
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2019
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: Ireland
Period: 19th & 20th Century

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

Designing a Critique: Exploring the use of Design History and Material Culture as a manifestation of Critical Theory in the practice of Andrea Zittel

Pamela Ryan
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2014
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Country: U.S.A
Period: 20th Century and 21st Century

15,000-20,000 words

Manipulating linen: Sybil Connolly’s pleated linen

Miia Saatma
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: Lisa Godson
15,000-20,000 words

Consuming Fantasies: An 1881 Illustrated Pattern Book Gives Insight into the Cutlery Design as a Mode of Cultural Expression

Mirjam Schiller
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2009
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Material Culture
Period: 19th Century

15,000-20,000 words

The Singer Sewing Machine in Ireland: An Examination of the Singer Company

Janet Searson
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2003
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

Material Gentility: A Study of the Life and Possessions of Richard Edgeworth Esq., 1701-1770

Lorraine Smith
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

Quaker Dress in Ireland in the Nineteenth Century

Carol Smith
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2012
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

From Factory to Floor: The Role of Navan Carpets in Ireland 1958-1972

Maeve Sookram
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 Lisa Godson
15,000-20,000 words

Embroidered Silk Postcards from the Monica Roberts Archive and the Material Culture of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in World War I

Mary Stevenson
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

Bill Bolger and The Children of God. The Catechism in Ireland after the Second Vatican Council

Margaret Suggs
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2005
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Books
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

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

The Development of the Irish Printed Visual Political Image 1977-1997

Daniel C. Swan
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1998
MA

Subject: Print
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Frances Ruane
Approx. 20,000 words

The Development of Visual Imagery of the State in Ireland North and South 1920-1960

Ciaran Swan
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2005
PhD

Subject: National Iconography
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: John Turpin
80,000-100,000 words

The Early History of the Sligo Art Collection 1955-1980

Denise Cassidy
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2007
M.Litt.

Subject: Art: Collecting
Country: Ireland: Sligo
Period: 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr Niamh O'Sullivan

The Magic Circle: Issues of Structure and Language in Video Games

Shane Whelan
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
2005
MA

Subject: Video Games
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. Paul O'Brien
Approx. 20,000 words

Nothing Between Us but the Holy Spirit: The Material Culture of Dancing in Rural Ireland 1935-1960

Paula Vallely
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 Anna Moran
15,000-20,000 words

Subjectivity and Post Structuralism

Luke Verling
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1996
MA

Subject: Art Theory

Supervisor: Dr. Paul O'Brien
Approx. 20,000 words

Michael Farrell - Changing Perspectives

Gerald Walker
National College of Art and Design
Faculty of History of Art and Design and Complementary Studies
1998
MA

Subject: Painting
Country: Ireland
Period: Late 20th Century

Supervisor: Dr. John Turpin
Approx. 20,000 words

The Contagion of China Fever: Shopping for Ceramics in Dublin 1730 - 1780

Maire Walsh
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

The design and making of Celtic revival brooches in mid Nineteenth Century Dublin

Muireann Walshe
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2015
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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

The International Style and Glamour of the Old Central Terminal Building, Dublin Airport

Candace White
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2008
MA Design History and Material Culture

Subject: Architecture
Country: Ireland
Period: 20th Century

15,000-20,000 words

'A Veritable Palace of Trade, One of the Structural 'Lions' of Belfast: Robinson & Cleaver's Irish Linen Warehouse- a Case Study

Penelope Whorrod
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2010
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

15,000-20,000 words

'Varieties to Appeal to Every Palate': An Exploration of the Forces that Shaped a Collection of Jacobs's Biscuit Labels 1900-1939

Irene (Wendy) Williams
National College of Art and Design
School of Visual Culture
2005
MA Design History and Material Culture

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

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