Biography
I am an architectural historian with a broad chronological interest in building and design history. My research extends from late medieval Ireland to the high Victorian period, with a focus on Ireland. I have taught history and architectural history in UCD, NUI Maynooth, and the University of Liverpool. Since 2017 I have been working on several IRC funded research projects in the Departments of the History of Art and Architecture, and Geology in Trinity College Dublin, including Making Victorian Dublin, Stonebuilt Ireland, and Craftvalue.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Piercing the surface: virtuoso wooden staircases from Cassiobury Park and Eyrecourt Castle in, editor(s)Casey, Christine Hayes, Melanie , Enriching Architecture Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660"1760, London, UCL Press, 2023, pp59 - 99, [Baumeister, Mecka and Andrew Tierney]
A glorious ascent: staircase design, construction and craft in the circle of Richard Castle in, editor(s)Casey, Christine Hayes, Melanie , Enriching Architecture Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production 1660"1760, London, UCL Press, 2023, pp316 - 353, [Tierney, Andrew]
'"Was the carver happy while he was about it?" Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness' in, editor(s)Mary Hatfield , Happiness in Nineteenth Century Ireland, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2021, pp97 - 118, [Andrew Tierney]
Andrew Tierney, The Buildings of Ireland: Central Leinster, New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2019, 1-697pp
The architectural sources for the Museum Building in, editor(s)Christine Casey Patrick Wyse Jackson , The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian Craftsmanship., Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019, pp92 - 114, [Andrew Tierney]
'Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education' in, editor(s)Christine Casey and Patrick Wyse Jackson , The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian Craftsmanship., Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2019, pp130 - 147, [Andrew Tierney]
A. Pilz and A. Tierney, 'Trees, Big House Culture, and the Irish Literary Revival', New Hibernia Review, 19, (2), 2015, p65 - 82
'Architectures of gentility in nineteenth-century Ireland' in, editor(s)Ciaran O'Neill , Nineteenth Century Elites, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2013, pp31 - 50, [Andrew Tierney]
'From Gothic to Gothic Revival: An Archaeology of Leap Castle, Co. Offaly' in, editor(s)Karina O'Neill , Studies in the Gothic Revival, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2008, pp27 - 50, [Andrew Tierney]
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Andrew Tierney, Digitally recreating lost eighteenth-century Irish interiors: challenges and opportunities , Historical interiors and the digital " the possibilities and limits of virtual reconstructions for research, Paris/Versailles, 17-18 November, edited by DFK Paris and Centre de recherche du château de Versailles , 2022
Tierney, Andrew, The reception of craftsmanship in Britain and Ireland, ARTISANS AND ARCHITECTS (1660 1760), Trinity College Dublin, 7-8 April 2022, 2022
Andrew Tierney, The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid, Coiseanna: Journal of the Clane Local History Group, 10, 2021, p6 - 14
Andrew Tierney, The Georgian Castle at Clongowes, Coiseanna: Journal of the Clane Local History Group, 9, 2020, p75 - 82
Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes, 'Recrafting Parliament: a virtual dialogue with a lost interior', YouTube.com: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdIhREuJp_U, Architecture, Media, Politics, Society, AMPS, 2020, -
Melanie Hayes and Andrew Tierney, `Recrafting parliament: a virtual dialogue with a lost interior, Connections-exploring heritage, architecture, cities, art, media, University of Kent; AMPS, 29 June , 2020
Andrew Tierney, 'Tower Houses and Power: Social and Familial Hierarchites in East County Clare c. 1350-c.1600', North Munster Historical and Archaeological Journal, 2013
J. Bruck and A. Tierney, Landscapes of desire: Parks, colonialism and identity in Victorian and Edwardian Ireland, Dublin, Heritage Council, 2009