TCD Staff

Prof Roger Stalley

Roger Stalley has a particular interest in the architecture and sculpture of the Middle Ages. His many books include Early Medieval Architecture (1999) in the Oxford History of Art Series, along with the award winning Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland (1987).  He has served on numerous national and international boards and is an elected member of both the Royal Irish Academy and Academia Europaea.  He is also an honorary fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland.  He is currently engaged in a major study of Irish Gothic architecture, a project supported by the Irish Research Council for the Arts and Social Sciences.

Dr Yvonne Scott

Yvonne Scott’s research areas are Modern and contemporary art, particularly from Ireland, and the theory of landscape, space and place in all periods and locations. She has worked on curatorial collaborations with a number of institutions in Dublin and elsewhere, including Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Hunt Museum, Limerick as well as on aspects of the College collection, including the Jack Yeats exhibition shown at the Douglas Hyde Gallery. She has written or contributed to numerous exhibition catalogues including for Ireland’s representation at the São Paolo Biennal, and the European Central Bank. She serves on the Boards of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland.

Dr Christine Casey

Christine Casey is the author of the principal reference work on the architecture of Dublin city. She is an honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland and has served on the boards of the Irish Georgian Society and the Irish Architectural Archive and as a consultant to the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Her particular area of interest is eighteenth-century Irish architecture and she has published widely on the subject, most recently as editor of The eighteenth-century Dublin townhouse.  She is currently researching the European context for Irish architecture and ornament in the period.

Dr Peter Cherry

Peter Cherry has an international reputation in the field of Spanish art of the seventeenth century. He has collaborated on exhibitions with major art museums across Europe, including the the Prado Museum in Madrid, the National Gallery, London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, and the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, as well as the National Gallery of Ireland. His research has examined such themes as the art of the Spanish court, depictions of religious subjects, still lifes and infancy. Artists explored include Diego Velázquez, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, Juan de Zurbarán, Juan Sánchez Cotán, and Luis Meléndez. Dr. Cherry is Chair of the Art Collections Advisory Group in Trinity College.

Dr Philip McEvansoneya

Philip McEvansoneya’s specialist area is British, Irish and French art 1600-1800. His research interests include the fields of patronage and collecting, both private and institutional, at a national and municipal level, and his graduate research students consequently include museum and gallery staff. He has worked on collaborative curatorial projects, both informal and formal, with a number of national and municipal collections both in Dublin, and other cities, including the Dublin City Gallery, the Hugh Lane, the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Crawford Gallery Cork.  He has delivered numerous lectures and research papers in museums and galleries in Dublin, particularly in relation to the history and interpretation of their exhibitions and collections.

Dr Laura Cleaver

Laura Cleaver, who holds an Ussher lectureship in the History of Art, is a specialist in medieval art, with a particular interest in manuscript illumination (the area of study for her PhD at the Courtauld Institute).  Her research projects include the preparation of a book on art and education in twelfth-century France, and an edited collection of essays on the reception of medieval art by early modern and modern artists, scholars and collectors.   She is currently exploring some of the outstanding manuscripts in the College library, both Irish and European, with a view to future publications and conference papers.  

Dr Rachel Moss

Rachel Moss' research areas are Irish medieval art and architecture c.400-1600, specializing in architecture and sculpture.  She has participated in lecture programmes for the National Museum, National Gallery and Hunt Museum and has curated exhibitions for bodies including the Office of Public Works, the RIAI, and the Church of Ireland. She has considerable experience in digital collection management and among other projects is a board member of the  Mapping Sculpture 1851-1951 project; a collaboration with the V&A, Henry Moore Institute,, Leeds and University of Glasgow. She is currently editor and lead contributor to the medieval volume of the Royal Irish Academy Irish Art and Architecture project; an initiative involving personnel from all of the major national cultural and academic institutions in Ireland.

Catherine Giltrap

Catherine Giltrap came to Trinity College as the first Curator of the amalgamated Historic and Modern Art Collections in late 2007. She was previously engaged in curatorial, educational, and consultancy roles at the Chester Beatty Library, Farmleigh, Fingal Arts Office, IMMA, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, the State Art Collections and an independent docent in Rome and the Vatican.  She graduated in the History of Art and Architecture with French at Trinity College. Her Masters is in Museum Studies, from the University of Leicester, focusing on university heritage and ‘The Role of University Museums and Collections’.

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Honorary Adjuncts

Michael Ryan, Honorary Professor

Michael Ryan is an Honorary Professor of the College. He is Director of the Chester Beatty Library and a former President of the Royal Irish Academy. He is a world authority on the art of metalwork in the early middle ages and the author of a wide range of publications.