• Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin

I am an art and architectural historian with a particular interest in medieval Ireland. My research has developed from doctoral studies in Romanesque architecture and sculpture to focus on the later medieval period, in particular the social context of medieval art and architecture. I am also interested in the extended biographies of medieval buildings - how the architecture of the Middle Ages came to be perceived and managed after the mid-sixteenth century. I was editor and principal author volume 1 of the RIA Art and Architecture of Ireland series, published by Yale University Press in November, 2014. Recent research projects have included the IRC-funded Monastic Ireland, Landscape and Settlement Project and the Bank of America Merrill Lynch-TCD Gospel Books Project.

My teaching covers medieval art and architecture. I teach modules on Insular art, early medieval art in Europe and art and architecture in late medieval Ireland. Past and present post-graduate students have worked on topics including, late medieval Irish window tracery, Passion symbolism in Irish art and the conservation and Iconography of Irish high crosses.

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