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Mary Ann Bolger

Lecturer in Design History and Visual Culture TU Dublin

Dr Mary Ann Bolger is a lecturer in Design History and Visual Culture at the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts, Technological University Dublin. She is the Programme Chair of the Creative Arts Masters Platform and was formerly chair of the BA in Creative Industries and Visual Culture. 

Mary Ann received her doctorate and her MA in the History of Design from the Royal College of Art, London. Her research interests include design in and of Ireland, graphic design, typography and language, the visual culture of the everyday, and the material culture of religion. She supervises PhDs in the areas of Irish design and visual culture, museum studies and typographic history. 

With her TU Dublin colleague, Clare Bell, Mary Ann represents Ireland as country delegate of the Association Internationale Typographique. Together they programme the GradCAM seminar group Typography Ireland. 

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