Browsing by Subject "Victorian Ireland"
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The architectural sources for the Museum Building
(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 parallel lives of Joseph Allen Galbraith (1819-90) and Samuel Haughton (1821-97): religion, friendship, scholarship and politics in Victorian Ireland.
(Royal Irish Academy, 2012)Joseph Allen Galbraith and Samuel Haughton were both Junior Fellows at Trinity College Dublin, who in the 1840s became popular lecturers of mathematics-based subjects as well as successful textbook authors. In the 1880s ... -
Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education
(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
(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 ...