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| Generally, my research covers aspects of the designed landscape history of Ireland, with a particular interest in the cultural, philosophical and aesthetic dimensions of this history. I am also interested in Irish social history, and the role key individuals have played in modulating the physical and intellectual environment. My first book Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland was awarded the inaugural J.B. Jackson Book Prize by The Foundation for Landscape Studies, New York in 2007. The history of Irish landscape design, landscape painting and landscape tourism is the current focus of my research and my book Ireland and the Picturesque; Design, Landscape Painting and Tourism in Ireland 1700-1830 will be published in 2013 by Yale University Press on behalf of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. In 2013 I will also be appointed a fellow of Dumbarton Oaks (Garden and Landscape Studies) by the Trustees of Harvard University, embarking on a research project entitled 'Revolutionary Landscapes; Ireland, France and America 1700-1810'. I graduated with a first class honours degree in architecture from UCD in 1993. In 1997 I completed a Graduate Diploma in the Conservation of Historic Landscapes at the Architectural Association in London with a thesis entitled 'The Celtic Revival Garden in Ireland'. I worked for a few years in the practice of de Blacam & Meagher Architects, where I was a project architect for the award-winning conservation design of Maynooth Castle, Co. Kildare, and where I also completed my professional part 3 exams to attain membership of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland. I completed my Ph.D. (N.U.I.) in 1999, and in 2001 I was awarded the National University of Ireland's Post-doctoral Fellowship in the Sciences. In 2004 I was appointed lecturer in architecture and conservation at UCD.
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| * History of Designed Landscape * Architectural and Landscape Conservation * Architectural History & Theory * Irish Social History * Architectural and Spatial Pedagogy |
| Sponsor : Office of Public Works (OPW) Title : A framework for the appraisal of cultural significance: Dublin city centre Start Date / End Date : 01-MAY-06 / 01-MAY-12 |
| Finola O'Kane; (2013) Ireland and the Picturesque; Design, Landscape Painting and Tourism in Ireland, 1700-1830 (forthcoming). London: Yale University Press. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane (2012) William Ashford's Mount Merrion; The Absent Point of View. Tralee, Co. Kerry: Churchill House Press. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2004) Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives. Cork: Cork University Press. [Details] |
| Stephen Daniels and Finola O'Kane (2012) 'Prospects of Patrimony: M.F. Trench and F.W. Trench's projects for Dublin and London 1780-1830' In: Gillian O'brien & Finola O'Kane (eds). Portraits of the City; Dublin and the Wider World. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) ''To Lead the Curious to Points of View; The Eighteenth-century Design of Irish Routes, Roads and Landscapes'' In: Mari Hvattum, Brita Brenna, Beate Elvebakkampevold Larsen editors (eds). Roads, Routes and Landscapes. England: Ashgate. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) 'An Absentee Family's Suburban Demesne; The Making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin' In: Terence Dooley and Christopher Ridegway (eds). The Irish Country House; Its Past, Present and Future. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) 'Conversions at Borris House and Demesne, Co. Carlow, Ireland' In: Loughlin Kealy & Stefano Musso (eds). Conservation/Transformation. Leuven, Belgique: EAAE Transactions on Architectural Education. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2010) ''Bargains in View'; The Fitzwilliam Family's Development of Merrion Square, Dublin' In: The Eighteenth-century Dublin Townhouse. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2009) ''Too much in the Suburban Groove'? Cullenswood, Patrick Pearse and the ideal Irish school garden' In: Celebrating Cullenswood House. Dublin: A & A. Farmer. [Details] | |||||||||
| O'Kane, F.; (2008) 'The Appearance of a Continued City; Dublin's Georgian Suburbia' In: O'Brien, G. & O'Kane, F eds (eds). Georgian Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] | |||||||||
| O' Kane, F; (2006) 'Glin, Charleville Forest, Tollymore, Killarney', pps.81-93, 98-100, 142-143' In: Laffan, W (eds). Painting in Ireland. Tralee: Churchill. [Details] | |||||||||
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| Gillian O'Brien & Finola O'Kane (Ed.). (2012) Portraits of the City; Dublin and the Wider World. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| O'Brien, G. & O'Kane, F (Ed.). (2008) Georgian Dublin. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
| O'Kane, F.; (2008) 'The Irish Botanic Garden; For Ireland or for Empire?'. Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes An International Quarterly, 28 (3-4):446-455. [Details] |
| O'Kane, F.; (2007) 'Educating a Sapling Nation: The Irish Nationalist Arboretum'. Garden History, Journal of the Garden History Society, 35 (2):185-195. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2004) 'Design and Rule: Women in the Irish Countryside 1715-1831'. Eighteenth-Century Ireland; Iris an dá chultúr, 19 :56-74. [Details] |
| O'Kane, F.; (2004) ''Obliges me to dip my hands in mortar': Catherine O'Brien's Influence at Dromoland'. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, VII :80-105. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2004) 'Improvements...not so Inconsiderable: The O'Briens' Baroque Landscape at Leamaneh Castle, Co. Clare'. Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, VII :64-79. [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2000) 'Nurturing a Revolution- Patrick Pearse's School Garden at St. Enda's, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, Ireland'. Garden History, Journal of the Garden History Society, 28 (1):73-87. [Details] | |||||||||
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| Finola O'Kane; (2006) 'Long-distance Landscaping: Robert Molesworth's Landscape of Breckdenston, Swords, Co. Dublin' Moorea; Journal of the Irish Garden Plant Society (15) . [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2003) 'A Suburban Education' Tracings . [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2002) 'Maynooth Castle, Co. Kildare' Irish Architect . [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Rapporteur for Borris House and Demesne . In: Loughlin Kealy and Stefano Musso eds. Conservation/Transformation Kilkenny, Ireland, , pp.45-49 [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2010) Subversive Suburbia: The Eighteenth-century Vauxhall Gardens, Blackrock, Co. Dublin . In: Jorge Correira eds. 1st International Meeting EAHN European Architectural History Network Guimaraes, Portugal, , 17-JUN-10 - 17-JUN-10 , pp.140-140 [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2007) 'Mixing foreign trees with the natives': The form and ideology of Irish botanic gardens and arboreta . In: M. Kokowski eds. The Global and the Local: The History of Science and the Cultural Integration of Europe. Proceedings of the 2nd ICESHS Cracow, Poland, September 6¿9, 2006, , 06-SEP-07 - 09-SEP-07 [Details] |
Finola O'Kane; (1997) The Demesne Landscape of the Eighteenth Century . In: Terry O'Regan eds. Irish Landscape Forum; The Second Landfall UCD Industry Centre, , 17-MAY-96 - 17-MAY-97 , pp.20-23  [Details] |
| Finola O'Kane; (2005) 'Country Life', The Irish Times, 30.7.05. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
| Year: 2007. Title: J.B. Jackson Book Prize, American Foundation for Landscape Studies |
| Year: 2001. Title: NUI Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Sciences |
| Year: 1996. Title: Wingate Scholar |
| Association: Journal of Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Function/Role: Member of the Editorial Board |
| Association: The Heritage Council, Function/Role: Member of the Standing Committee on Architecture |
| Association: International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Eighteenth-century Ireland Society, Function/Role: Member |
| Finola O'Kane (2012) From Fairy Fort to Urban Square: Cross-sections of Identity in the Eighteenth-century Landscape Garden. [Plenary Lecture], Routes through the Garden, Stourhead, Wiltshire, England , 18-OCT-12 - 20-OCT-12. |
| Finola O'Kane Crimmins; (2012) Out of Sight, Out of Mind; Representing Dublin City 1740-1801. [International Refereed Conference], European Architectural History Network Second International Meeting, Brussels, Belgium , 31-MAY-12 - 03-JUN-12. |
| Finola O'Kane; (2012) Moving Mountains; Radical Eighteenth-century Landscape Design in France and Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Images of the Garden; The French Garden as Cultural Palimpsest, The Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin , 25-MAY-12 - 26-MAY-12. |
| Finola O'Kane & Stephen Daniels; (2012) Projects for Patrimony; M.F .& F.W .Trench's designs for Dublin and London in the early nineteenth century. [National Refereed Conference Paper], The London-Irish in the Long Eighteenth Century (1680-1830), University of Warwick , 13-APR-12 - 14-APR-12. |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Visual Subversion in Eighteenth Century Dublin. [Refereed Abstracts], 'The Sensory Suburb' Inaugural Symposium The Suburban Culture Network, NUI Maynooth , 09-DEC-11 - 09-DEC-11. |
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Ireland and the Picturesque. [Invited Lecture], SAUL Lecture Series 'Ireland's Living Space', SAUL, University of Limerick , 09-NOV-11 - 09-NOV-11. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Reluctant Tourists; Visiting absentee landlords and their shifting views of eighteenth-century Ireland. [Invited Lecture], The Grand Tour in Britain and Ireland, Centre for Eighteenth-century Studies, York University , 03-DEC-11 - 03-DEC-11. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Patrick Pearse and his Magic Lantern Box; The Formation of Ireland's National Landscape and Architectural Identity. [Invited Lecture], Space, Identity and the Authentic, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick , 26-OCT-11 - 26-OCT-11. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2011) Spatial Subversion in Eighteenth-Century Dublin; The Suburban Design Practices of the Fitzwilliam Estate. [Refereed Abstracts], Eighteenth-century Ireland Society Annual Conference, Trim castle Hotel, Trim, Co. Meath , 30-JUN-11 - 03-JUL-11. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2010) The Portrait of City; Themes and Questions. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], The Portrait of the City; Framing the Significance of Historic Urban Landscape, Dublin Castle Conference Centre, Dublin 2 , 09-DEC-10 - 11-DEC-10. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2010) 'A Genuine Idea of the Face of the Country'? Jonathan Fisher and Paul Sandby's portrait of Ireland within the frame of Great Britain',. [Invited Lecture], The Sandby Brothers and Eighteenth-century Art Symposium, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, The Royal Academy of Arts, London , 19-MAR-10 - 19-MAR-10. | |||||||||
| Keynote Speaker; (2009) To Lead the Curious to Points of View; The Design of Roads, Routes and Landscapes in Eighteenth-century Ireland'. [Keynote Address], Roads, Routes and Landscapes; Aesthetic Practices en Route 1750-2015, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway , 24-SEP-09 - 26-SEP-09. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2009) 'The Designed Landscape of the Blackwater River Valley'. [Invited Lecture], The Blackwater Valley- Historic Houses and Landscapes, Youghal Celebrates History Conference, Mall Arts Centre, Youghal, Co. Cork , 25-SEP-09 - 27-SEP-09. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2009) The Pattern of Development of the Great Irish Demesne. [Invited Lecture], Symposium in conjunction with the opening of the Thomas Roberts Exhibition, National Gallery of Ireland, The National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 , 04-APR-09 - 04-APR-09. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2008) Tourists in Ireland and Scotland 1750-1800. [Invited Lecture], Environmental Frontiers Conference, Research Institute for Scottish and Irish Studies, The University of Aberdeen , 21-JUN-08 - 21-JUN-08. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2008) The Irish Georgian Town Garden. [Invited Lecture], The Eighteenth-century Townhouse: Form, Function and Finance, The National Gallery of Ireland, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 , 27-MAY-08 - 27-MAY-08. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2006) Garden History, What next?; An Introduction to the NIAH Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes. [Invited Lecture], Symposium to launch the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage Inventory of Historic Gardens and Designed Landscapes, The National Botanic Gardens , 07-NOV-06 - 07-NOV-06. | |||||||||
| Finola O'kane; (2006) Conference to examine the form and representation of Georgian Dublin. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], 'Bare Bones of a Fanlight': Georgian Dublin, Newman House, St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 , 04-MAY-06 - 06-MAY-06. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2006) 'The Appearance of a Continued City: Dublin's Georgian Suburbia. [Refereed Abstracts], 'Bare Bones of a Fanlight'; Georgian Dublin Conference, Newman House, University College Dublin, Stephen's Green, Dublin 2 , 04-MAY-06 - 06-MAY-06. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2005) 'Studies in a Point of View; The Baroque Axis in Ireland'. [Invited Lecture], Northern Irish Heritage Gardens Committee Annual Conference, The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, , 30-SEP-05 - 01-OCT-06. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2005) Historic Irish Tourist Landscapes: From the Dargle to Killarney'. [Invited Lecture], Third Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference, NUI Maynooth , 09-SEP-05 - 10-SEP-05. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (2004) 'Adorning the Country with Ruins'; Ireland and the Picturesque. [Refereed Abstracts], Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society & Eighteenth-Century Scottish Society Joint Annual Conference, Centre for Irish-Scottish and Comparative Studies (CISCS), TCD , 17-JUN-04 - 20-JUN-04. | |||||||||
| Finola O'Kane; (1997) The Demesne Landscape of the Eighteenth Century. [Non Refereed Paper/Abstract Presented at Conference], The Second National Landscape Forum, UCD Industry Centre, Belfield, Dublin 4 , 17-MAY-97 - 17-MAY-96. | |||||||||
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| Committee : College Research and Innovation Board |
| Committee : College Graduate School Board |
| Committee : The Heritage Council Standing Committee on Architecture |
| Committee : Steering Group for South Georgian Core Study by Dublin City Council |
| Year 1999 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: PhD Subject: |
| Year 1997 Institution: The Architectural Association, Bedford Square, London Qualification: Diploma Subject: Postgraduate Diploma in the Conservation of Historic Landscapes |
| Year 1993 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: BArch Subject: Architecture |
| Year 2000 Institution: University College Dublin Qualification: Certificate Subject: Certificate in Architectural Practice and Practical Experience (for MRIAI) |
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| Contributor to BBC/RTE television series 'The Story of Ireland', writer and presenter Fergal Keane, 2010 |
| Eighteenth Century Ireland; Iris An Dá Chultúr: Reviewer. |
| Irish Arts Review: Reviewer. |
| Extern Examiner for Ph.D., University of Ulster |
| Extern Examiner for M.Litt. Department of History of Art and Architecture, TCD |
| I aim to consider each student as an individual and to provide a supportive, critical and creative environment for their evolution into academic researchers, professionals and creative artists. In my teaching practice I aim to show that research, teaching and professional practice are critically interrelated, mutually sustaining and equally valued. |
| 201200 ARCT40300 Architecture: Research Methods in Architect. |
| 201200 ARCT40170 Architecture: Conservation History, Theory & |
| 201200 ARCT40700 Architecture: M.Arch.Sc Thesis(Conservation) |
| 201200 ARCT40680 Architecture: Postgrad Architecture Studio |
| I aim to respond to student feedback when preparing module content for the following academic year. In the past four years I have evolved the postgraduate modules' content and means of assessment to take account of the disciplinary background of each individual student and also the weighting of disciplines attending in each module. This can be quite a complex process as the module's means of assessment may have to re-evaluated to take each postgraduate student's prior learning into account. A lawyer, for example, may need to develop a far greater ability to read drawings while an art historian will need to familiarise themselves, perhaps for the first time, with the legal language of a building contract. This process, which would not be feasible in very large module cohorts, has an enormous benefit in that the students understand that they are in turn designing their education. However, it is also necessary to remain very clear that the module's outcomes remain fixed, despite the multiple disciplines of the students. I also aim to enhance my postgraduate teaching by communicating clearly my own educational history and learning experience. |
| In 2008-2009 I restructured the postgraduate research masters programmes in the School of Architecture. The existing postgraduate modules were assessed, reassembled and streamlined to ensure no repetition in content, to reflect the programmes' growing academic emphasis and to facilitate interdisciplinary learning and exchange. The postgraduate modules were also divided into those that were pedagogically also suited to the needs of fourth and fifth year architecture students and those that required a more professional/accreditation emphasis. This was done both to sustain the modules in question, in the event of a drop in graduate numbers in any one year and also to prepare 4th year and 5th year architecture students for their final year thesis. Following this process, by 2009-2010 all of our research masters students attended joint modules in research methods and case studies and reflective practice. Now all the new postgraduate students in the School of Architecture attend two modules in common and this greatly aids in the development of a focussed, supportive and sustainable research culture. This palette of modules is also intended to support any professional or creative doctorates that may be developed in the future both within the school or with Smartlab and/or NCAD. It is important for the discipline of architecture and for the other creative disciplines that are now beginning to enter academia that such doctorates are developed with rigour if they are to acquire any academic value. For such disciplines to engage effectively with the university these doctoral programmes will also have to demonstrate how creative research can be conducted and assessed in an academic context. This process of review and curriculum enhancement will enable the school to grow and develop postgraduate architectural eduction. |
| I try to stay abreast of evolving concerns in the area of architectural education by attending and delivering papers at conferences run by the European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and by publishing in that area. As my primary teaching duties are the supervision of postgraduate research students I have tried to develop my teaching practice specifically as it pertains the supervision and management of graduate students. I have attended the three workshops offered by UCD Graduate Studies as part of the Research Supervisor Support and Development Programme. Workshop 1: Understanding Graduate Research Supervision in UCD 18 Nov. 2010 Full Day Workshop 2: Working with Graduate Research Students (9:30am-1:00pm) , Thursday Feb 24th, 2011, Boardroom UCD Research Workshop 3: PhD student assessment and examination (9.30am-1pm) Friday 27 April, 2012 I have gained substantial insight by being mentored as a supervisor by Professor Kathleen James-Chakraborty, with whom I share two doctoral students. I have learnt a great deal from witnessing her developed methodology for giving feedback, formulating doctoral panels, initiating and sitting on transfer panels and mentoring her students into the future. I also attended the workshop 'Assessing Students and Giving Feedback' 31 October, 2008 at the Centre for Teaching &L. |
| At a postgraduate level, architecture is a very new field of study. In 1998 the first doctorate in architectural research was awarded in the Republic of Ireland and I gained the second such doctorate in 1999. The MUBC programme, for which I am the lead academic, is the most highly regarded postgraduate research programme in architecture in Ireland. Using this as a model I have led the development of a suite of structured taught and research postgraduate programmes in architecture. |
