Dr Conor Lucey BDes MA PhD
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Dr Conor
Lucey is an architectural and design historian whose research interests are
broadly centered upon the domestic architecture and material culture of eighteenth century Britain and Ireland. His current research, concerning the agency of English craftsmen in Ireland, has been grant aided by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art (Yale University). He is the author of The Stapleton collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior, published in 2007 by Churchill House Press in association with the National Library of Ireland, and curated the accompanying exhibition, entitled Decorating the Georgian Interior, at the Irish Architectural Archive. Conor Lucey is current editor of Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, the journal of the Irish Georgian Society. |
Research Interests
| Domestic architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland. Decorative plasterwork in early modern Europe. The late eighteenth-century building world. Design and material culture of the British Atlantic world. Neo-classical ornament, decoration and its related discourses. Design and the decorative interior in Europe 1600-1840. |
Books
| Conor Lucey; (2007) The Stapleton collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior. Tralee: Churchill House Press. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Conor Lucey; (2012) 'Building dialectics: negotiating urban scenography in late Georgian Dublin' In: F. O'Kane-Crimmins and G. O'Brien (eds). Portraits of the city: Dublin and the wider world. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey (2012) 'The scale of plasterwork production in the metropolitan centres of Britain and Ireland' In: C. Casey and C. Lucey (eds). Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey (2012) 'Pattern books and pedagogies: neo-classicism and the Dublin artisan' In: L. Mulvin (eds). The fusion of neo-classical principles. Dublin: Wordwell. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2010) 'Classicism or commerce? The town house interior as commodity' In: C. Casey (eds). The eighteenth-century Dublin town house. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Edited Books
| C. Casey and C. Lucey (Ed.). (2012) Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Conor Lucey (2011) 'Keeping up appearances: redecorating the domestic interior in late eighteenth-century Dublin'. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY SECTION C-ARCHAEOLOGY CELTIC STUDIES HISTORY LINGUISTICS LITERATURE, 111 :169-192. [DOI] [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2010) ''Rooms neatly coloured': painting and decorating the Dublin town house, 1789-1810'. Georgian Group Journal (Uk), XVIII :137-151. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2009) 'To be Let'. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, CXXXIX :121-123. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2007) 'Decoration and property speculation: newspaper advertisements from Michael Stapleton and Charles Thorp'. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, X :266-271. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2007) ''In very good business': Andrew Callnan's house-decorating practice 1790-1804'. Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, CXXXVII :117-130. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2006) ''Deal Raill and Chineas Filling': Chinoiserie stair balustrades in Georgian Dublin'. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, IX :226-245. [Details] | |||||||||
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Other Journals
| Conor Lucey; (2010) 'Convenience or show? (book review)' Apollo clxxi (577) :98-99. [Details] |
| Conor Lucey; (2007) 'A Plasterer's Portfolio' Country Life cci (10) :60-62. [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2012. Title: Research Support Grant (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art) |
| Year: 2012. Title: Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Fellowship (Society of Architectural Historians) |
| Year: 2010. Title: NUI Postdoctoral Fellow in History (National University of Ireland) |
| Year: 2009. Title: Postdoctoral Researcher (Humanities Institute of Ireland) |
| Year: 2006. Title: Doctoral Scholarship (UCD School of Art History) |
| Year: 2005. Title: Desmond Guinness Scholarship (Irish Georgian Society) |
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| Year: 2005. Title: John Hunt Memorial Bursary (The Hunt Museum, Limerick) |
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Associations
| Association: Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Function/Role: Editor |
| Association: Society of Architectural Historians, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Artefact, Function/Role: Editorial committee, vols 1-3 (2006-2009) |
| Association: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Irish Georgian Society, Function/Role: Member |
Conference Contributions
| Conor Lucey (2013) 'Plastering over the decorative arts'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Annual conference of the College Arts Association (CAA), New York , 13-FEB-13 - 16-FEB-13. |
| Conor Lucey and Christine Casey (2012) Symposium organized by UCD School of Art History and TRIARC. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Ornament Matters, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin , 16-OCT-12 - 20-NOV-12. |
| Conor Lucey (2012) 'Consumer non-choices in the eighteenth century home'. [Invited Lecture], Histories of Home, Institute of Historical Research/Centre for Studies of Home, University of London , 07-NOV-12 - 07-NOV-12. |
| Conor Lucey (2012) 'Between head and hand: working practices from the historical record'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Décors intérieurs dans l'architecture de l'époque moderne, Université de Namur, Belgium , 14-DEC-12 - 14-DEC-12. |
| Conor Lucey; (2012) 'Disembarrassing decoration: reconsidering architectural ornament in early modern Britain and Ireland.'. [Invited Lecture], Seminar in Irish History Series, Hertford College, University of Oxford , 16-MAY-12 - 16-MAY-12. |
| Conor Lucey; (2012) 'From rococo to rot: interior decoration in Dublin, 1760-1800'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Detroit , 18-APR-12 - 22-APR-12. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2012) 'Species of (Georgian domestic) spaces'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Early Modern History Research Seminar Series, Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin , 23-JAN-12 - 23-JAN-12. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2011) 'Lost in translation? The classical revival and the Georgian plastering trade'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Anglo-Irish Orientalists, Travellers, Dilettanti and Architects: Ireland, the Mediterranean and Book Culture 1607-1810, UCD Humanities Institute , 03-JUN-11 - 03-JUN-11. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2011) 'Some observations on the architecture of the Irish country house'. [Invited Lecture], Power and Privilege: Photographs of the Big House in Ireland, 1858-1922, National Library of Ireland , 01-FEB-11 - 01-FEB-11. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2010) '(Un)realizing urban scenography in early modern Dublin'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Portrait of the City, Dublin Castle , 09-DEC-10 - 11-DEC-10. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2010) Innovation Dublin 2010. [Chaired Session], Creative Cities, UCD John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies , 15-NOV-10 - 15-NOV-10. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2010) 'The material culture of eighteenth-century domestic space'. [Invited Oral Presentation], The Practical Matter of Cultural History, GradCAM , 15-SEP-10 - 18-SEP-10. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2010) 'Plasterers of the Dublin school'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Eighteenth-century Plasterwork in Ireland and Europe, Trinity College Dublin , 10-APR-10 - 10-APR-10. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2009) 'The Royal Circus and the problem of the Georgian set piece'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Dublin's Landscape: Significance, Identity and Authenticity, UCD Richview, School of Architecture , 03-DEC-09 - 03-DEC-09. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2009) 'Pattern books and pedagogies: neo-classicism and the Dublin artisan'. [Invited Oral Presentation], The Fusion of Neo-Classical Principles, National Gallery of Ireland , 21-MAY-09 - 22-MAY-09. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2009) 'A London Commission: Thomas Roberts and Robert Adam'. [Invited Lecture], Thomas Roberts (1748-1777) symposium, National Gallery of Ireland , 14-APR-09 - 14-APR-09. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2008) 'Keeping up appearances: redecorating the townhouse interior in late eighteenth-century Dublin'. [Invited Oral Presentation], Annual conference of the Eighteenth Century Ireland Society, University College Cork , 13-JUN-08 - 14-JUN-08. | |||||||||
| Conor Lucey; (2008) 'Classicism or commerce? The townhouse interior as commodity'. [Invited Oral Presentation], The Eighteenth-Century Dublin Town House: Form, Function and Finance, National Gallery of Ireland , 26-MAY-08 - 27-MAY-08. | |||||||||
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