Recently launched:
Gothic Past is an open-access resource for the study of
medieval Irish architecture and sculpture.
The site showcases images from three significant
collections of image archives, housed in the Department of History of Art and
Architecture in College: the [Roger] Stalley Collection; the [Edwin C.] Rae
Collection of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture: photographic images
that were created and collected from the 1930s to the present day; and the
[Danielle] O’Donovan collection of Irish Gothic moulding profiles.
These image collections have been a key primary
resource for a thematic research project, Reconstructions of the Gothic Past, funded by IRCHSS and carried
out in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College
from 2008 -2011.
The Reconstructions of the Gothic Past project
has examined Gothic buildings in Ireland as part of a continuous historical
process, analysing them not just as monuments of one particular period, but as
historical ‘documents’. Examining change through time reveals how the use and
treatment of Gothic buildings was affected by social, economic, religious and
cultural change in subsequent ages. The project monograph will be published in
2012 by Wordwell Books.
Reconstructions of the Gothic Past Project team: Roger Stalley, Prinicipal Investigator, Rachel
Moss, Associate Investigator, Caroline Martha McGee, Research
Assistant, Niamh NicGhabhann, Doctoral Fellow, Olivia Horsfall
Turner, Research Associate, Danielle O’Donovan, Research
Associate,
Gothic Past Website team:
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Roger Stalley, Reconstructions of the
Gothic Past Project
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Caroline Martha McGee, Reconstructions of
the Gothic Past Project
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Danielle O'Donovan, Reconstructions of the
Gothic Past Project
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Niamh Brennan, Research and Information Systems and
Services, Trinity College Library
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Garret McMahon, Research and
Information Systems and Services, Trinity College Library
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Deirdre O'Regan, Web Developer
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Enovation Solutions Ltd (Site hosting
and support)
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Peter Gillis, OneHouse Communications
