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Modules and Timetables 2025-2026

Details of our modules in the 2025-26 academic year can be found here: First Arts, Second Arts, and Third/Final Arts.

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MA in Global Gallery Studies

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Conference: Re-Framing the '90s: Historicising late 20th-century Irish Practice
2-3 Nov, 2018

Organised by PhD candidate Sarah Kelleher and former PhD candidate Dr Rachel Warriner, Reframing the ‘90s seeks to reassess the ways in which Irish art of the 1990s has been understood.

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Call for Papers:
BAUHAUS EFFECTS
Dublin – 7-9 February 2019

As the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus approaches, we seek contributors to reflect on the legacy and resonances of the innovative artistic, architectural, design and teaching practices developed there.

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News from History of Art

Opening night of Vox Materia at the Crawford Gallery, Cork, 6 September 2018.

PhD candidate Sarah Kelleher co-curates Alice Maher exhibition

Sarah Kelleher and Rachel Warriner, current and former PhD candidates in History of Art, launched Vox Materia by Alice Maher at the Crawford Gallery, Cork on 6 September 2018. The show was previously installed at the Source Arts Centre, Thurles, from 30 March to 5 May 2018.

Marie Lucas-Robiquet, A Complaint with the Cadi (Algeria), ca. 1896.

Mary Kelly, Lecturer in History of Art, publishes article on Orientalist artist Marie Lucas-Robiquet

Dr Mary Kelly (née Healy), Lecturer in History of Art, UCC, published a peer-reviewed journal article entitled ‘A Complaint with the Cadi, ca. 1896: an East/West Cultural Encounter’, in Cultural and Social History: The Journal of the Social History Society. Vol. 15, No. 1 (2018).

Kārlis Padegs, Vivat Europa! (detail), 1931. Image courtesy of Tukums Museum, Latvia.

New book on the impact of war on art edited by Ann Murray

Dr Ann Murray, a graduate of our doctoral programme, published a collection of essays entitled Constructing the Memory of War in Visual Culture since 1914: The Eye on War (Routledge, 2018).

Public Talk by artist Dara McGrath at UCC

On 23 November 2017, Dara McGrath discussed Project Cleansweep: Beyond the Post-Military Landscape for History of Art.

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