Dr Andrew Tierney

Post-doctoral Research Fellow, European Research Council Advanced Grant project, STONE-WORK

I am an architectural historian with a broad chronological interest in building and design history. My research extends from late medieval Ireland to the high Victorian period, with a focus on Ireland and Britain. I have taught history and architectural history in UCD, NUI Maynooth, and the University of Liverpool. Since 2017 I have worked on several IRC funded research projects at Trinity College Dublin, including MAKING VICTORIAN DUBLIN, STONEBUILT IRELAND and CRAFTVALUE. In December 2023 I joined the research team for the ERC-funded project STONE-WORK (2023–2028).

My recent publications include Central Leinster: Laois, Offaly and Kildare (Yale University Press, 2019), a volume in the series of Pevsner architectural guides, and Between Design and Making: architecture and craftsmanship 1630–1760, co-edited with Melanie Hayes.

Selected Publications

A. Tierney and M. Hayes (eds.), Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship 1630–1760. London: UCL Press, July 2024.
A. Tierney, ‘ Material, curiosity and performance: the reception of workmanship in early modern Britain and Ireland’. In Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship 1630–1760, edited by A. Tierney and M. Hayes, 289–322. London: UCL Press, July 2024.
A. Tierney and M. Baumeister, 'Piercing the surface: virtuoso wooden staircases from Cassiobury Park and Eyrecourt Castle'. In Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760, edited by C. Casey and M. Hayes, 59–99. London: UCL Press, 2023.

A. Tierney, 'A glorious ascent: staircase design, construction and craft in the circle of Richard Castle'. In Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660–1760, edited by C. Casey and M. Hayes, 316–353. London: UCL Press, 2023.
A. Tierney, ‘“Was the carver happy while he was about it?” Trinity’s Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness’. In Happiness in Nineteenth Century Ireland, edited byM. Hatfield, 97–118. Liverpool University Press, 2020.
A. Tierney, The Buildings of Ireland: Central Leinster. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2019.
A. Tierney, ‘The architectural sources for the Museum Building’. In The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian Craftsmanship, edited by C. Casey and P. Wyse Jackson, 92–114. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019.
A. Tierney, ‘The O’Sheas and artisan craftmanship in Britain and Ireland’. In The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian Craftsmanship edited by C. Casey and P. Wyse Jackson, 130–147. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019.
A. Tierney, The Doctor’s Wife is Dead. Dublin and London: Penguin Ireland, 2017.
A. Pilz and A. Tierney, ‘Trees, Big House Culture, and the Irish Literary Revival’, New Hibernia Review 19:2 (2015): 65–82.
A. Tierney, ‘Architectures of gentility in nineteenth-century Ireland’. In Nineteenth Century Elites, edited by C. O’Neill, 31–50. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013.
A. Tierney, ‘Constructing Kinship: social and familial identities in the built environment of Gaelic-Ireland 1350–1600’, North Munster Historical and Archaeological Journal 53 (2013).