material culture, Art and society

Profiling Irish society and its contacts with European social and intellectual traditions through the decorative arts, symbolism and iconography

Staff Research

Conor Newman ( Profile)

Current Projects

• Irish Art and Iconography c. AD 300-700 (Conor Newman)
• Ireland and the Roman World (Conor Newman)

Current Graduate Research

PhD

• Fiona Gavin: Insular Ornamental Metalwork AD 300 – 500: 'Military Style' Inspired Art in Ireland and Britain
• Margaret Mannion: Glass Beads of Early Medieval Ireland
• Clodagh Lynch: Hoards of Roman objects from Ireland
• Sean Daffy: Roman material from Leinster
• Christine Allan: (Columbanus Project)
• Karina Hensel: The Tree of Life in early medieval Ireland
• Brendan Kelly: Early Medieval Brooch-pins in Ireland and Britain.

Completed Graduate Research 2000-2009

M.Litt.

• Sandra Bourke: Kilbride-Jones Group C & D Zoomorphic penannular Brooches: analysis of form and iconography (2008)
• Dara Keane: The Dunbell Raths, Co. Kilkenny, from 1852 to the present day: antiquarians, artefacts and omnuments in a disappearing landscape (2008)
• Niamh Walsh: The Early Medieval Sculpture at Carndonagh, Co. Donegal (2003)
• Martin Jones: Finger-rings, Bracelets and Latchets,: towards a sociology of jewellery from later prehistoric and early historic Ireland to AD 800 (1999)

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