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Recently Completed Theses

2020-21

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Shorthall, William

The Early Irish Free State Government and the Visual Arts

Ph.D.

Angela Griffith

2019-20

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Durkan, Aisling

Eighteenth-Century Drogheda: Building a Provincial Town

Ph.D.

Christine Casey

Gillis, John

The Faddan More Psalter

Ph.D.

Laura Cleaver

2018-19

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Baker, Nina

The Impact of Commentary on Text and Image in Early Thirteenth Century Bibles Produced in France

M. Litt.

 Laura Cleaver

Campbell, Susan

A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation into the ‘Aesthetic of Disorder’ in Contemporary Western Art

Ph.D.

Yvonne Scott

Mortensen, Kerstina

Into the Void: Translating Text and Image in Nordic Art 1890-1910

Ph.D.

Yvonne Scott

Murphy, Alexandra

Doing it for themselves: Artist-Run Gallery Spaces in Contemporary Ireland

Ph. D.

Yvonne Scott

 

2017-18

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Badzmierowska, Karolina

Digital Approaches to the History of Art and Architecture Online

PhD

Peter Cherry/Hugh Denard

Sedovic, Katherine

Mythical King or Laical Christ Figure? The Marrying of the Sacred and the Secular in Fourteenth Century French Arthurian Illuminations

PhD

Laura Cleaver

2016-17

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Brady, Aoife

Guido Reni: Workshop Practices and Painting Techniques

PhD

Peter Cherry

Gleeson, Jennifer

The Significance of Studs in Insular Art, 7th to 12th Centuries

PhD

Rachel Moss

McCrossan, John

Francesco Borromini's Drawings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in the Context of Architectural Practice in 17th-Century Rome

PhD

Christine Casey

McGee, Caroline

Catholic Church Architecture and Art Industry in Ireland, 1850-1922

PhD

Christine Casey

2015-16

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Hayes, Melanie

Cross Currents in Domestic Development: the Town House in London and Dublin, 1720-1760

PhD

Christine Casey

Hill, Judith

The Uses of Gothic in Irish Domestic and Ecclesiastical Architecture, 1785-1829

PhD

Christine Casey

Thomas, Karl

The Artist's Biography as a Source of Meaning

PhD

Yvonne Scott

2014-15

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Fitzgibbon, Jennifer

Mobile encounters: artists’ mobility between Ireland and Britain and the development of performance, video and multimedia practices (1975-1999)

PhD

Yvonne Scott

Milligan, Kathryn

Depicting Dublin: Representations of the City in Irish Art

PhD

Yvonne Scott

Purkayasth, Sayandeep

A Hierarchical Image Processing Approach to Analysis of Early Medieval Manuscript Art

PhD

Laura Cleaver / John Dingliana

2013-14

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Campbell, Myles

English Architects in Ireland, c.1830-1875

PhD

Christine Casey

Dornan, Antoinette

The Houses of the Augustinian canons in Ireland

MLitt

Rachel Moss

Galavan, Susan

A Study of the Victorian Suburban House in Dublin

PhD

Christine Casey

Ralph, Karen

Prestige, Power and Patronage: Commissioning Illuminated Manuscripts and Material Culture in Late Medieval Ireland

PhD

Rachel Moss / Philip McEvansoneya

2012-13

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Durkan, Ciaran

Painting della Natura: The importance of nature in the art of painting in Seventeenth century Rome

MLitt

Peter Cherry

Evangelisti, Isabella

The Nude in Modern Irish Art: Tradition and Transgression. An exploration of themes and trends in the representation of the nude in twentieth century Irish art.

PhD

Yvonne Scott

Hidalgo, Beatriz

Drawing in Spain in the Eighteenth Century at the Court of Madrid

PhD

Peter Cherry

Humphries, Jane

(Re)imagining the domestic in contemporary Irish Art

PhD

Yvonne Scott

Kelly, Tara

Products of the Celtic Revival: Facsimiles of Irish Archaeological Metalwork and Jewellery, 1890-1940

PhD

Philip McEvansoneya

Thomas, Colleen

Beyond the Desert: The Narrative Composition of Medieval Images for the Hermits Paul and Antony Receiving Bread from the Raven

PhD

Roger Stalley / Laura Cleaver

2011-12

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Behan, Avril

An empirical approach to the study of Irish Medieval Ecclesiastical Architecture in Connaught and Ormond using Geomatics techniques

PhD

Rachel Moss

Connaughton, Jill

Personal Devotional Objects and the iconography of the Passion in Ireland, 1537-1800

PhD

Rachel Moss

Hand, Tony

The Kilkenny Marble Works: A family business enterprise

PhD

Edward McParland

Lüdicke, Wolf

Imitation, novelty and eclecticism in the architecture of Domenichino

PhD

Edward McParland

Nic Ghabhann, Niamh

Reconstruction of the Gothic past – cultures of conservation

PhD

Roger Stalley

2010-11

Name Title Degree Supervisor

Hodson, Thomas

Life and Works of Georges Jeanniot (1848-1934)

MLitt

Philip McEvansoneya

Molesworth, William

The patronage and collecting activities of the Molesworth Family

MLitt

Philip McEvansoneya

Narkiewicz, Frances

Liturgy and Architecture in Medieval Ireland, ca 100 – ca. 1315: Evidence from the Diocese of Killaloe

PhD

Roger Stalley

O'Boyle, Aidan

The assembly, display and dispersal of Irish collections 1750-1950

PhD

Philip McEvansoneya

Rowley, Ellen

The culture of architecture in Dublin 1940-1965: a study of architectural discourse, key competitions and buildings of health, home and worship

PhD

Edward McParland

2009-10

Name Title Degree Supervisor
D'Alton, Martin Conor The Architecture of the Leix Offaly Plantations M.Litt RS
Griffith, Angela Mary Irish Printmaking from 1880-1970 Ph.D PC
Unkel, Jill Elizabeth The Architectural Patronage of the Early Anglo-Norman Lords of Ireland Ph.D RS
Whitty, Audrey The Albert M Bender Collection of Asian Art in the National Museum of Ireland and his literary and artistic contacts in Ireland and Asia PhD PMcE

2008-09

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Hurley, Livia Public and Private Improvements in eighteenth-century Ireland: the case of the Conynghams of Slane, 1703-1821 M.Litt EMcP
Kinsella, Stuart An architectural history of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin c.1540-1870 PhD RS
McCarthy, Patricia The planning and use of space in Irish houses, 1730-1830 PhD EMcP
Montague, John Philip John Rocque's 1756 Exact Survey of the city and suburbs Dublin, as evidence for the Archaeology of the mid-eighteenth century city PhD EMcP

2007-08

Name Title Degree Supervisor
O'Donovan, Danielle Building the Butler Lordship, 1405-c.1552 PhD RS

2006-07

Name Title Degree Supervisor
Eckett, Jane The life and career of an Irish Flower Painter, Moyra Barry (1885-1960): Flower Painting and Cultural Conservatism in Early Twentieth Century Ireland MLitt YS
McCullen, John Landscape History and Management of the Phoenix Park, 1800-1880 PhD EMcP