Editor: Eimir O'Brien
Profile: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/eimir-o-brien/20/87/b2
Email:modernirishchurches@3mail.ie
Background: This project is an off shoot of on-going PhD research into this area with the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.
Recent and up-coming Conferences
June 2013: 'Inhabiting Modernity: Coevality' in Irish Ecclesiastical Art Practise,1950
-1970. New Voices: Literary and and Cultural Studies Conference, NMI Maynooth.
September 2012 Short Talk: ‘The Art of Narrative: Religious Identity in Modern Ireland’, Workshop, Historiography of Religion: New approaches to origins of narrating a religious past conference at Norrköping University, Sweden (peer review/ awarded full funding).
June 2012 Lecture: ‘Re-appropriating the Gothic: The Catholic Church and the Consolidation of Power in mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland’, Material Religion in Modern Britain and her Worlds conference, University of Cardiff
May 2012 Lecture: '20th Century Irish Stained Glass'. Seminar, Free University of Ireland (invited).
April 2012 Lecture: 'Designing for God: The Emergence of a Modern Ecclesiastical Style in Ireland c. 1950 – 1970.', Irish Association of Art Historians Annual Study Day (peer review).
March 2012 Lecture: 'Mid-20th Century Stained Glass in the Context of Irish Church Interiors', National Gallery of Ireland Lecture Series A Miscellany of Stained Glass (invited).
October 2011, seven day writing workshop in Cill Riallaig, Capturing the essence of craft practice in Ireland: processes of discourse, Key note lecturer Dr Judith Schwartz, NYU.
December 2008, Lecture: 'The Fleetwood Cabinet: An Example of a 17th Century Wedding Gift', National Museum of Ireland Saturday Talk Series (invited).
Other
February 2013: Interview on Near FM's programme Northside Today.
February 2013: Conference Co-ordinator Objects in Focus National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History.
Profile: http://ie.linkedin.com/pub/eimir-o-brien/20/87/b2
Email:modernirishchurches@3mail.ie
Background: This project is an off shoot of on-going PhD research into this area with the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, Ireland.
Recent and up-coming Conferences
June 2013: 'Inhabiting Modernity: Coevality' in Irish Ecclesiastical Art Practise,1950
-1970. New Voices: Literary and and Cultural Studies Conference, NMI Maynooth.
September 2012 Short Talk: ‘The Art of Narrative: Religious Identity in Modern Ireland’, Workshop, Historiography of Religion: New approaches to origins of narrating a religious past conference at Norrköping University, Sweden (peer review/ awarded full funding).
June 2012 Lecture: ‘Re-appropriating the Gothic: The Catholic Church and the Consolidation of Power in mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland’, Material Religion in Modern Britain and her Worlds conference, University of Cardiff
May 2012 Lecture: '20th Century Irish Stained Glass'. Seminar, Free University of Ireland (invited).
April 2012 Lecture: 'Designing for God: The Emergence of a Modern Ecclesiastical Style in Ireland c. 1950 – 1970.', Irish Association of Art Historians Annual Study Day (peer review).
March 2012 Lecture: 'Mid-20th Century Stained Glass in the Context of Irish Church Interiors', National Gallery of Ireland Lecture Series A Miscellany of Stained Glass (invited).
October 2011, seven day writing workshop in Cill Riallaig, Capturing the essence of craft practice in Ireland: processes of discourse, Key note lecturer Dr Judith Schwartz, NYU.
December 2008, Lecture: 'The Fleetwood Cabinet: An Example of a 17th Century Wedding Gift', National Museum of Ireland Saturday Talk Series (invited).
Other
February 2013: Interview on Near FM's programme Northside Today.
February 2013: Conference Co-ordinator Objects in Focus National Museum of Ireland, Decorative Arts and History.
