Browsing History of Art and Architecture (Scholarly Publications) by Sponsor "Irish Research Council (IRC)"

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  • 14 Henrietta Street: Georgian Beginnings, 1750-1800 

    Hayes, Melanie (Dublin City Council Culture Company, 2021)
    14 Henrietta Street was built in the late 1740s, during a boom in Dublin’s building industry that followed a decade of war and economic hardship at home and abroad. It formed part of a row of three houses which Luke ...

  • The architectural sources for the Museum Building 

    Tierney, Andrew (Four Courts Press, 2019)
    If the purpose of this research project, as stated by Christine Casey at the start of this book, is to highlight the process of making (rather than meaning), then we must query the ‘making’ that went into the design itself. ...

  • The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid 

    Tierney, Andrew (2021)
    The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ...

  • The Georgian Castle at Clongowes 

    Tierney, Andrew (2020)
    The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ...

  • An Irish Palladian in England, the case of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce 

    Hayes, Melanie (Four Courts Press, 2021)
    This article charts Sir Edward Lovett Pearce’s complex connections from country estates in Norfolk, courtly circles in Surrey and fashionable enclaves in Mayfair to the newly-built streets of Dublin’s North City. ...

  • The Museum Building's radical polychromy 

    Casey, Christine (Four Courts Press, 2019)
    The radical polychromy of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin did not emerge Minerva-like from the brow of Benajmin Woodward, but rather from an imbrication of architecture, geology and engineering ...

  • Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education 

    Tierney, Andrew (Four Courts Press, 2019)
    On meeting the O’Sheas in Oxford Ruskin saw them as the ideal of the savage northern workmen, obstinate and generous who by natural instinct brought a fluidity, freshness and life to their work. Dr Henry Acland, ...

  • Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness 

    Tierney, Andrew (Liverpool University Press, 2021-02)
    The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin (1853-7), by Deane, Son & Woodward, is a seminal work of Ruskinian Gothic architecture, influencing a generation of British and Irish architects, and revolutionising Victorian ...