Dr Conor Lucey

Clare & Tony White Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Research interests

I am an architectural historian whose research interests are focused on eighteenth-century domestic architecture and interior decoration in Ireland and Great Britain. My current research examines the interface between building houses and selling homes in Dublin for the period 1760-1830. I am currently editor of Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, the peer-reviewed journal of the Irish Georgian Society.

Publications

• C. Lucey, ‘British Agents of the Irish Adamesque’, Architectural History, 56 (2013) – forthcoming.
• C. Lucey, ‘Merrion Square 250’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 71:2 (2013) – forthcoming.
• C. Casey and C. Lucey (eds), Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior (Dublin, 2012).
• C. Lucey, ‘Building dialectics: negotiating urban scenography in late Georgian Dublin’, in G. O’Brien and F. O’Kane (eds), Portraits of the city: Dublin and the wider world (Dublin, 2012), pp 91-109.
• C. Lucey, ‘Classicism or commerce? The town house interior as commodity’, in C. Casey (ed.), The eighteenth-century Dublin town house (Dublin, 2010), pp 236-48.
• C. Lucey, ‘Keeping up appearances: redecorating the domestic interior in late eighteenth-century Dublin’, Proceedings Of The Royal Irish Academy, 111C (2011), pp 169-192.
• C. Lucey, ‘“Rooms neatly coloured”: painting and decorating the Dublin town house, 1789-1810’, Georgian Group Journal, XVIII (2010), pp 137-151.
• C. Lucey, The Stapleton collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior (Dublin, 2007).
• C. Lucey, ‘A Plasterer’s Portfolio’, Country Life, CCI, No. 10 (2007), pp 60-62.
• C. Lucey, ‘“In very good business”: Andrew Callnan’s house-decorating practice 1790-1804’, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, CXXXVII (2007), pp 117-130.

Curated exhibitions

• Decorating the Georgian Interior, Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin, March–June 2007.

Conferences

• C. Lucey, ‘Plastering over the decorative arts’, Annual conference of the College Arts Association (CAA), New York, 11-FEB-2013.
• C. Lucey, ‘Between head and hand: working practices from the historical record’, Décors intérieurs dans l’architecture de l’époque moderne, Université de Namur, Belgium, 14-DEC-2012.
• C. Lucey and C. Casey, Ornament Matters [Convenor of Seminar Series], Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, OCT/NOV-2012.
• C. Lucey, ‘Consumer non-choices in the eighteenth century home’, Histories of Home, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 7-NOV-2012.
• C. Lucey, ‘Disembarrassing decoration: reconsidering architectural ornament in early modern Britain and Ireland’, Seminar in Irish History Series, Hertford College, University of Oxford, 16-MAY-2012.
• C. Lucey, ‘From rococo to rot: interior decoration in Dublin, 1760-1800’, Annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), Detroit, 19-APR-2012.
• C. Lucey, ‘Species of (Georgian domestic) spaces’, Early Modern History Research Seminar Series, Trinity College Dublin, 23-JAN-2012.
• C. Lucey, ‘Lost in translation? The classical revival and the Georgian plastering trade’, Anglo-Irish Orientalists, Travellers, Dilettanti and Architects: Ireland, the Mediterranean and Book Culture 1607-1810, UCD Humanities Institute, 03-JUN-2011.
• C. Lucey, ‘The material culture of eighteenth-century domestic space’, The Practical Matter of Cultural History, GradCAM, 16-SEP-2010.

Dr. Lucey on the TCD Research Support System

Contact Details

TRIARC,
Department of the History of Art and Architecture,,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2.

Telephone: 00 353 1 8963178
Fax: 00 353 1 8961438
Email: luceyco@tcd.ie