Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rachel Moss, Rome in Stone: Classicism in Medieval Sculpture and Architecture, Classics Ireland, 31, 2024, p50 - 78
Remaking the Gaelic Christian Landscape: Devotion, Iconoclasm and Tourism in Post-Reformation Ireland and Scotland in, editor(s)Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam , Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900: Survivals and Revivals, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp39 - 60, [Rachel Moss]
Introduction: Relics, Revivals and Replicas in the Gaelic World in, editor(s)Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam , Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900: Survivals and Revivals, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp1 - 6, [Rachel Moss and Heather Puliam]
Rachel Moss, Boyle Abbey, from Monastery to Barracks, Heritage Week event, King House and Boyle Abbey, Co. Roscommon, 16 August, 2024, OPW
Art, Belief and Politics in Scotland and Ireland c.500-c.1900 in, editor(s)Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam , Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900: Survivals and Revivals, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp7 - 37, [Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam]
Rachel Moss, Cong Abbey: A Palimpsest in Stone, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, Literature, History, 124C, 2024, p1 - 39
Rachel Moss, `More potent than all its gold': Reliquaries and their textures through time, Texture in the Medieval World, Department of History of Art and Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, June, 2024
Rachel Moss, Copying and creativity in the art of late medieval Gaelic manuscripts, DIAS Lecture Series, March, 2024, Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies
Postscript: Changing Perceptions and the Future of Insular, Gaelic and Celtic Material Culture in, editor(s)Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam , Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900: Survivals and Revivals, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, pp289 - 293, [Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam]
Rachel Moss and Heather Pulliam, Irish and Scottish Art, c. 900-1900: Survivals and Revivals, Edinbugh, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 1 - 322pp
Idolatry, ignominy, and iconoclasm: Irish public monuments 1540-1700 in, editor(s)Paula Murphy and Colleen M. Thomas , Ireland: The Matter of Monuments, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2024, pp43 - 60, [Rachel Moss]
The Inishmurray and Kilmacannon cross-inscribed stones in, editor(s)William Nolan and Kieran O'Conor , Sligo: History and Society, Dublin, Geography Publications, 2024, pp109 - 135, [Rachel Moss and Tamlyn McHugh]
Rachel Moss, `In the tradition of my race: Evoking the Celtic Past in Later Medieval Gaelic World, Identities, Communities and 'Imagined Communities'', Bristol University Centre for Medieval Studies, April, 2023, 2023
Rachel Moss, Classicism in Medieval Irish Sculpture and Architecture, Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture, Antikmuseet, Aarhaus University, Denmark, 11-13 May, 2023
Rachel Moss, 'The Book of Durrow', Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, New York, Oxford University Press, 2023, -
Rachel Moss and Colmán Ó Clabaigh, Modest and civil people: religion and society in medieval Galway, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2022
Rachel Moss, Glass in medieval Ireland: A fragmentary overview, Glass in the Ancient World, Irish Institute of Hellenistic Studies, Dublin, 14 May, 2022
Rachel Moss, The Building Trade in Ireland, c. 1190-1600, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 149 (2019), 2020, p124 - 145
Resilience, restoration and revival: Insular art in later medieval Ireland in, editor(s)Cynthia Thickpenny, Katherine Forsyth, Jane Geddes and Kate Mathis , Peopling Insular Art: Practice, Performance, Perception, Oxford, Oxbow, 2020, pp189 - 195, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Portraits and Paintings at the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 149, 2019, p104 - 115
Rachel Moss, The impact of reform on Irish parish churches, Church of Ireland Historical Society Annual Confernece, Archbishop Robinson Library, Armagh, March, 2019, 2019, Church of Ireland Historical Society
Irish Parish Churches: 1350-1550 in, editor(s)Paul Barnwell , Places of Worship in the British Isles: 1350-1550, Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2019, pp174 - 190, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Adam Loftus' houses: Rathfarnham castle and Irish episcopal palaces in the 16th century, Rathfarnham Castle Conference, Rathfarnham Castle, October, 2019, Office of Public Works
The material culture of the canonical movement in medieval Ireland in, editor(s)Martin Browne and Colman O Clabaigh , Households of God: The Regular Canons and Canonesses of St Augustine and of Premontre in medieval Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019, pp191 - 206, [Rachel Moss]
Silvia Gallagher and Rachel Moss, Harnessing Massive Online Open Courses for Innovations in Museum Education and Beyond, 28th ICDE World Conference on Online Learning, Dublin, Ireland, 3-7 November 2019, 2019
An Art Historical Perspective on the Irish Historic Towns Atlases in, editor(s)Howard B. Clarke and Sarah Geraghty , Maps and texts as sources: evaluating the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2018, pp220 - 236, [Rachel Moss]
Material culture: c. 1200-1550 in, editor(s)Brendan Smith , Cambridge History of Ireland. Volume 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp532 - 563, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss and Fainche Ryan, 'The Book of Kells: Exploring an Irish Medieval Masterpiece', Dublin and London, Futurelearn, 2018, -
Rachel Moss, The Book of Durrow, London, Thames and Hudson, 2018
Rachel Moss, Early Irish Gospel books project TCD: Much Done, More to Do, Networks of knowledge Then and now: Digital potential conference, NUIG, Ireland, June, 2018, 2018
Rachel Moss, Felicty O'Mahony and Jane Maxwell (eds), An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2017, 334pp
The Art and the Pigments: A study of four Insular Gospel Books in the Library of Trinity College Dublin in, editor(s)Stella Panayotova and Paola Ricciardi , Manuscripts in the Making: Art and Science, London and Turnhout, Brepols, 2017, pp12-20 , [Susie Bioletti and Rachel Moss]
Kells, Book of, Helmer, Christine / McKenzie, Steven Linn / Römer, Thomas Chr. / Schröter, Jens / Walfish, Barry Dov / Ziolkowski, Eric, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 15, Berlin, de Gruyter, 2017, pp104 - 105, [Rachel Moss]
The Garland of Howth in, editor(s)Rachel Moss, Felicity O'Mahony and Jane Maxwell , An Insular Odyssey: Manuscript Culture in Early Christian Ireland and Beyond, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2017, pp260 - 282, [Rachel Moss]
The Sam Maguire Cup in, editor(s)Fintan O'Toole, Catherine Marshall and Eibhear Walshe , Modern Ireland in 100 artworks, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2016, pp37 - 39, [Rachel Moss and Fintan O'Toole]
Substantiating Sovereignties: 'Regal' Insignias in Ireland, c.1370-1410 in, editor(s)Peter Crooks, David Green and W. Mark Ormond , The Plantagenet Empire, 1259-1453, Donington, Shaun Tyas, 2016, pp216 - 231, [Rachel Moss]
Susie Bioletti and Rachel Moss, Four Insular Gospel Books in Trinity College Dublin, 'Colour', Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, 8-10 December, 2016
Rachel Moss, Review of The Art, Literature and Material Culture of the Medieval World, by Boulton, Meg, Hawkes, Jane and Herman, Melissa , Irish Theological Quarterly, 81, (2), 2016, p199-200
Collective memory and municipal identity in the early modern Irish town in, editor(s)Dany Sandron , Le Passé dans la Ville, Paris, Presses de l'université Paris-Sorbonne, 2016, pp165 - 182, [Rachel Moss]
Foreword in, editor(s)Howard B. Clarke and Ruth Johnson , The Vikings in Ireland and Beyond, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2015, ppxxvii - xxxiv, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, New Wine in Old Wineskins: the parochial use of suppressed religious houses, 1540-1740, International Medieval Conference, Leeds, UK, July, 2015
Dublin Castle Chapel before 1807 in, editor(s)Myles Campbell and William Derham , The Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle: An Architectural History, Dublin, Office of Public Works, 2015, pp29 - 37, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, `Celtic Tiger Tales; Recent Developments in Insular Art Research', The Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, Trinity College Dublin, September, 2015, 2015
Rachel Moss, Artists, Audience and Agency in Insular art, Maynooth Early Irish & Celtic Studies Research Seminar, Maynooth University, November, 2015, 2015
Rachel Moss, Review of The Jacobean Plantation in Seventeenth-Century Offaly, by James Lyttleton , Irish Arts Review, 31, (1), 2014, p137-38
Celtic Crosses; O'Kerin Family; wayside crosses, Paula Murphy, Art and Architecture of Ireland. Vol. 3. Sculpture, 1600-2000, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Where is Art History Today? The Art and Architecture of Ireland in Context, The Art and Architecture of Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, November, 2014, Royal Irish Academy
Rachel Moss, Review of Insular and Anglo-Saxon: Art and Thought in the Early Medieval Period, by Colum Hourihane (ed) , Irish Theological Quarterly, (79), 2014, p294-96
Rachel Moss, Review of Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World, by Maggie M. Williams , Eolas:Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies, 7, 2014, p122-24
Rachel Moss, Survival and Destruction of Urban Medieval buildings in Early Modern Ireland, Le Passé dans la Villes Européenne Conference, Sorbonne IV, Paris, May, 2014, 2014
Rachel Moss, Art and Architecture of Ireland. Volume 1: The Medieval Period, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2014, 600pp
Foreword in, editor(s)Charles Doherty and Mary Kelly , Music and the Stars: Mathematics in Medieval Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2013, ppxii - xiv, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, `The `afterlives' of medieval monastic buildings', Iona Community and Historic Scotland Conference, Iona, Scotland, April, 2013, 2013
Unfurling words of indulgence in, editor(s)Brendan Leahey and Salvador Ryan , Treasures of Irish Christianity: A People of the Word, Dublin, Veritas, 2013, pp103 - 107, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, For the benefit of souls: Chantry and collegiate foundations in Ireland, Space and Settlement in Medieval Ireland, Trinity Long Room Hub, 24-25 May, 2013
'Planters of great civilitie': female patrons of the arts in late medieval Ireland in, editor(s)Therese Martin , Reassessing the Roles of Women as "Makers" of Medieval Art and Architecture, Leiden, Brill, 2012, pp275 - 308, [Rachel Moss]
Reconstructing Cashel in, editor(s)R. Stalley , Irish Gothic Architecture: Construction, Decay and Reinvention, Bray, Wordwell, 2012, pp99-115 , [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Review of The Friars in Ireland, 1224-1540, by Colman O Clabaigh , Irish Theological Quarterly, (77:4), 2012, p404-405
Reduce, Re-use, Re-cycle: Irish Monastic Architecture c. 1540-1640 in, editor(s)R. Stalley , Irish Gothic Architecture: Construction, Decay and Reinvention, Bray, Wordwell, 2012, pp115-160 , [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, The Old Portal and Cathedral of Kilmore, Breifne, the journal of the Breifne Historical Society, xi, (46), 2011, p58 - 81
'Continuity and change: the material setting of public worship in the sixteenth-century' in, editor(s)Thomas Herron and Michael Potterton , Dublin and the Pale in the Renaissance, 1494-1660, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, pp182 - 206, [Rachel Moss]
'The Architectectural Sculpture' in, editor(s)Charles Doherty, Linda Doran and Mary Kelly , Glendalough: City of God, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2011, [Rachel Moss]
'Piety and Politics: Funerary Sculpture in Cashel c. 1500-1640' in, editor(s)Roger Stalley , Medieval Art and Architecture in Limerick and south-west Ireland, British Archaeological Association Conference transactions for 2008, Leeds, Maney, 2011, pp158 - 175, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, 'The Staff, the Snake and the Shamrock: St Patrick in Art', Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack, Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, 2011, -
Rachel Moss, Buildings and Objects of Power and Authority, O Cleirigh Institute Lecture Series, O Cleirigh Institute, UCD, October, 2010, O Cleirigh Institute, UCD
Rachel Moss, Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape, Review of Inishmurray: Monks and Pilgrims in an Atlantic Landscape, by Jerry O'Sullivan and Tomás Ó Carragáin , Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 138 (2008), 2010, p165-167
Stone with Diaper Ornament in, editor(s)Ann Lynch , Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford: Cistercians and Colcloughs. Excavations 1982-2007, Dublin, Dept. of Environment, Heritage and Local Government, 2010, pp127 - 128, [Rachel Moss]
'Romanesque Sculpture in North Roscommon' in, editor(s)Thomas Finan , Medieval Lough Cé: History, Archaeology, and Landscape, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp119 - 144, [Rachel Moss]
Castle, Richard; Deane and Woodward; Ireland; Lanyon, Sir Charles; Pearce, Sir Edward Lovett; Scott, Michael, P. Goode, Oxford Companion to Architecture, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp154, 238,474-5,535-6,705,821-2 , [R. Moss]
Rachel Moss, Romanesque chevron ornament: the language of British, Norman and Irish Sculpture in the twelfth century, BAR International Series 1908, Oxford, Archaeopress, 2009, 137pp
Rachel Moss, `Reconstructing the Rock of Cashel', International Medieval Conference, Leeds, UK, July, 2008
Rachel Moss, Review of Studies in the Gothic Revival, by Michael McCarthy and Karina O'Neill , Architecture Ireland, 240, 2008, p61
Rachel Moss, The Parish church in 16th century Ireland, Sixteenth-century Society Annual International Confernece, Hilton Hotel, St Louis, MI, USA, 1-4 October, 2008
Rachel Moss, Unravelling the Work of Angels. Changing perspectives in Irish Art History, Beyond Saints and Scholars: Irish Medieval Studies in the 21st Century, St Louis University, MI, USA, 26-28 October, 2008
Rachel Moss and Avril Behan, Metrology and Proportion in the Ecclesiastical Architecture of Medieval Ireland, Nexus : Architecture and Mathematics, vii, 2008, p171 - 183
Rachel Moss, Appropriating the past: seventeenth-century preservation of the Romanesque in Ireland, Architectural History, 51, 2008, p63 - 86
Rachel Moss, Irish Funeral Monuments of the Later Middle Ages: Authors and Audience, Queens University History Seminars, Queens University, Belfast, November, 2008
Rachel Moss, Making and Meaning in Insular Art, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, 342pp
Rachel Moss, Mellifont:from monastery to mansion, Irish Arts Review, 24, (3), 2007, p85 - 87
Revivalist Tendencies in the Irish Late Gothic: Defining a National Identity? in, editor(s)Matthew Reeve , Reading Gothic Architecture, New York, Brepols, 2007, pp123 - 137, [Rachel Moss]
A Twelfth-century Renaissance? Irish Romanesque Sculpture and the Insular Tradition in, editor(s)Rachel Moss , Making and Meaning in Insular Art, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2007, pp126-141 - [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, The `first' Gaelic Revival; Identity and Differentiation in Irish Gothic Architecture, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2007
Rachel Moss, Review of Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture Vol.VII: South-west England, by Rosemary Cramp , Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 136, (2006), 2007, p191-192
Rachel Moss and Margaret Quinlan, Leamonaghan, Co. Offaly Conservation Plan, Kilkenny, The Heritage Council, 2007, pp72
Rachel Moss, Sculpture in Cyberspace: The Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland, RSAI annual lecture series, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, April, 2007, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Rachel Moss, Colman O Clabaigh, and Salvador Ryan, Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2006, 234pp
Permanent expressions of piety: the secular and the sacred in later medieval stone sculpture in, editor(s)Rachel Moss, Colman O Clabaigh and Salvador Ryan , Art and Devotion in Late Medieval Ireland, Four Courts Press, 2006, pp72 - 97, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Rolling stones and Moving Arches: the pre-1800 re-use of Irish Romanesque Sculpture, International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May, 2006
Rachel Moss, Review of The Manor in Medieval and Early Ireland, by James Lyttleton and Tadhg O'Keeffe , Irish Arts Review, 22, (2), 2005, p140-142
Rachel Moss, Review of Romanesque Ireland, by Tadhg O'Keeffe , Irish Architect, 194, 2004, p63
Rachel Moss, Review of Treasures of the Boyne Valley, by Peter Harbison , Irish Arts Review, 2004, p125-6
Abbeyknockmoy; Abbeys; Ardfert; Athassal Priory; Ballintober Abbey; Cashel, Rock of; Christchurch Cathedral; Clonfert Cathedral; Corcomroe Abbey; Holycross Abbey; Inch Abbey; Jerpoint Abbey; Mellifont Abbey; Molana Abbey: Movilla Abbey; Quin Friary; Rahan; Romanesque; Rosserk Friary; Ratass; St Patrick's Cathedral; Timahoe; Tintern Abbey, Brian Lawlor, The Encyclopedia of Ireland, Dublin, Gill and MacMillan, 2003, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Review of Towers, Spires and Pinnacles, by Samuel Hutchinson , Irish Architect, 191, 2003, p61
Rachel Moss, St Doulagh's Church, Balgriffin, The Irish Arts Review, 2003, p122 - 125
Rachel Moss, Review of Historic Towns Atlas No. 11: Dublin Part 1 to 1610, by H. Clarke , Irish Arts Review, 2002, p138
Rachel Moss, Inscribed portals, commemoration or authentication?, Medieval Research Symposium, Courtauld Institute of Art, UCL, London, February, 2002, 2002
Tales from the Crypt: The Medieval Stone of Christchurch in, editor(s)Sean Duffy , Medieval Dublin III, Dublin, 2002, pp95 - 114, [Rachel Moss]
Rachel Moss, Review of Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, 4: South East England and Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, 5: Lincolnshire, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, 155, 2002, p302-4
Rachel Moss, The `grammar' of Irish ornament: reading the sources of Hiberno-Romanesque, The Romanesque Achievement Patrons and their Churches in England and Ireland Conference, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, October, 2002, 2002
Rachel Moss, Chevron as a Chronological Tool; friend or foe?, New Directions in the English Romanesque Conference, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, November, 2001, 2001
Gareth Bradshaw and Rachel Moss, Towards a Prototype Model for Medieval Moulding Profile Acquisition, Digital Environments for Design, Heritage and Architecture; Proceedings of the15th annual Computers and the History of Art Conference, Glasgow, 1999, edited by Tanya Szrajber , 2000
Rachel Moss, A Medieval Jigsaw Puzzel: the Ancient Stones of Christchurch, Archaeology Ireland, 14, (2), 2000, p20 - 23
Rachel Moss, Review of Boyle Abbey and the School of the West, by Britta Kalkereuter , Ulster Journal of Archaeology, 59, 2000, p51-2
Architecture in, editor(s)Neil Buttimer, Helen Guerin and Colin Rynne , The Heritage of Ireland, Cork, The Collins Press, 2000, pp62 - 70, [Rachel Moss]
Jason Ellis and Rachel Moss, The Conservation of the Romanesque Portal at Killaloe: exposing the History of One of Clare's Finest Sculptures, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 129, 1999, p67 - 89
Town History in, Clonmel Architectural Heritage Study, Dublin, Dept. of Arts, Culture, heritage and the Islands, 1998, [Rachel Moss]
Architecture; Cashel; Castle, Richard; Castletown House; Christchurch Cathedral; Clonmacnoise; Cormac's Chapel; Custom House; Deane and Woodward; Dublin Castle; Four Courts; Gandon, James; Glendalough; High Crosses; Johnston, Francis; Leinster House; Mellifont; Metalwork; Parliament House; Pearce, Sir Edward Lovett; Plasterwork; Round Towers; Royal Exchange; St. Patrick's Cathedral; Sceilig Mhichil; Trim Castle, Sean Connelly, Oxford Companion to Irish History, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, [Rachel Moss]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Rachel Moss, Building Gaelic Ireland in the Late Middle Ages, Clans of Ireland Annual Clan Gathering, Stephen's Green Club, Dublin, April,, 2024
Rachel Moss, Portraiture and politics in Irish medieval stone sculpture, Friends of the National Collections Annual Meeting, Royal Irish Academy, April, 2019
Susan Bioletti and Rachel Moss, Early Irish Gospel Books in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, Trinity College Dublin, 2016, 1 - 97pp
Rachel Moss, Medieval Art and Architecture of the mid-West, Medieval Limerick Lectures, Adare, Co. Limerick, November, 2015, Limerick City and County Council
Rachel Moss, The Art and Architecture of Medieval Ireland, Crawford Lecture Series, Crawford Gallery, Cork, March, 2013, Crawford Gallery Education Department
Rachel Moss, The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Royal Historical Society Newsletter, 12, (October), 2013, p4 - 5
Rachel Moss and Yvonne Scott, The Provost's House Stables and Environs, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008, 1 - 93pp
Rachel Moss, Building for God: Church Architecture in Medieval Ireland, Hunt Museum Lectures, Hunt Museum, Limerick, April, 2008
St Patrick's Well in, editor(s)Yvonne Scott and Rachel Moss , The Provost's House Stables and Environs, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008, pp73 - 83, [Rachel Moss]
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- Monastic Ireland: Landscape and Settlement
- Summary
- Monastic Ireland: landscape and settlement is phase 2 of research initiated by Dr Rachel Moss, (TCD) Dr Edel Bhreathnach( the Discovery Programme) and Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D'Aughton(UCC) in 2010. Phase 1, now nearing completion, has achieved the successful assembly of baseline data (historical synopses, image archives, transcriptions of relevant primary documents and tourism information) relating to monasteries across the island of Ireland. Phase 2 of the programme will seek to clarify the role of monasteries c. 1100-1700 in shaping the distribution and form of Irish urban and rural settlement. The role played by monastic communities in attracting adjacent settlements, and in the process of colonisation and social control of already established populations, will be analysed in the context of broader trends across Europe. The particularly rich survivals of relevant archaeological, architectural and documentary sources in Ireland means that it is ideally placed within the now vibrant arena of European monastic studies to answer key questions relevant to the Continent as a whole. The collaboration between TCD, UCC and the Discovery Programme will enable the project to combine more traditional desk-based study and field observation with cutting-edge technologies not usually harnessed in the disciplines of art history and history. Digital surveying techniques, including Lidar and geophysical survey, have the potential to reveal subtle changes in building fabric, and adjacent, now below ground, evidence of settlement not visible to the naked eye. This will provide new information, which will complement and clarify more traditional sources, research and teaching methods.
- Funding Agency
- IRC
- Date From
- 2013
- Date To
- 2016
- Title
- TCD Irish Gospel Books Project
- Summary
- The project entails the treatment, technical examination, digitisation and art historical study of four of TCD Library's most important early medieval gospel books; Codex Usserianius Primus, The Garland of Howth, the Book of Dimma and the Book of Mulling.
- Funding Agency
- Bank of America Merrill Lynch
- Date From
- 2014
- Date To
- 2016
- Title
- Royal Irish Academy Art and Architecture of Ireland project
- Summary
- Art and Architecture in Ireland is an ambitious project to be administered by the Royal Irish Academy. The aim of the Project is to produce a definitive five volume academic reference text that covers the history of Irish art and architecture from c. AD400 to c.2000. It is envisaged that the text will also be published in digital form. Involvement includes editing and over two thirds of the written contributions to volume 1, Medieval Art and Architecture, c.400-1600.
- Funding Agency
- Naughton Trust and Department of Arts Sports and Tourism
- Date From
- 2008
- Date To
- 2014
- Title
- Reconstructions of the Gothic Past
- Summary
- This project aims to transform the study of Gothic architecture in Ireland through the use of modern analytical methods and data resources. The study will focus on the introduction and spread of Gothic forms, especially in the thirteenth century, and it will lay particular emphasis on the perception and exploitation of these buildings in succeeding ages. The intention is to establish a small research team, based on an existing area of strength within the School of Histories and Humanities. It is important to stress that there has been no 'defining' work on Irish Gothic design since the 1950s, and virtually no examination of the ways in which Irish design relates to Gothic found elsewhere in Europe, nor any examination of its relationship with the social and political contexts of the time. A key (and unusual) element in the proposal is the intention to take a 'holistic' view of the Gothic monuments involved, examining building as part of a continuous historical process; in other words the aim is to analyse buildings not just as monuments of one particular period, but as historical 'documents' which have much to tell us about the attitudes and aspirations of subsequent eras. The project will thus examine how the use and treatment of Gothic buildings has been affected by social, economic, religious and cultural change in subsequent ages (including the modern era). With its emphasis on the process of colonisation and post colonisation, combined with the investigation of how the meaning and perception of Gothic monuments have changed and evolved over a period of five hundred years.
- Funding Agency
- IRCHSS
- Date From
- 2008
- Date To
- 2011
- Title
- Monastic Ireland
- Summary
- The Monastic Ireland project aims to construct a website, database and image sensitive application of Irish monasteries, nunneries, houses of canons and mendicant foundations dating from 1100-1700AD. The website and database will aim to provide easily navigable information about each site (archaeology, architecture, archives, history, source references, access). It will also include photographs and location maps. The database will allow local communities and interested groups to see how challenges facing sites in their own locality are similar to those faced elsewhere. For educational and tourism purposes it will provide an overview of sites in a holistic regional context as opposed to individual sites devoid of a national and international narrative. This project will form the basis of a powerful tool for cultural tourism in Ireland. Project Partner with: Dr Edel Bhreathnach, (Discovery Programme)and Dr Malgorzata Krasnodebska-D'Aughton(UCC)
- Funding Agency
- Dept. of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltacht; Fáilte Ireland (Applied Research Grant)
- Date From
- 2010
- Date To
- ongoing
- Title
- Crookshank Glin Archive
- Summary
- Funding Agency
- Getty Foundation
- Date From
- 2005
- Date To
- 2008
- Title
- Prof. Edwin Rae Image Archive
- Funding Agency
- Heritage Council
- Date From
- 2007
- Date To
- 2008
Recognition
Representations
Member, Fabric committee, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
External examiner, University of York
President, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
External Examiner National University of Ireland, Galway
External examiner, University College Cork
Architectural Historian. Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland Continuous Professional Development 'Conservation induction module'
Member, Irish Committee for Historical Sciences
Member of Directorate, Discovery Programme (Heritage Council nominee)
Board member, Irish Architectural Archive (ministerial nominee)
Council member, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Steering committee member, Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture 1851-1951 project
Steering committee member, Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland Project
Peer Reviewer for journals: Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academey; Journal of Irish Archaeology; Art Bulletin;Irish Historical Studies; Etudes Irlandaises/French Journal of Irish Studies; Downside Review; Ecclesiastical History; Journal of the British Archaeological Association
Peer reviewer for academic publishers: Liverpool University Press, Boydell and Brewer; Four Courts Press; Cork University Press
Peer reviewer for funding bodies: Fondazione Carpilo (Milan) 2022-present; ERC work programme 2021 ; Getty Foundation 2010
Member of Editorial Board, Journal of Irish Heritage Studies
Awards and Honours
Elected Fellow of Trinity College Dublin
Elected President, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (London)
Memberships
Fellow, Society of Antiquaries (London)
Fellow, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
Member, International Centre for Medieval Art
Member, Irish Association of Art Historians