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Art and Architecture

MS 11182/822 design for stained glass window, Clarke studios, 1954

MS 11182/822 design for stained glass window, Clarke studios, 1954

Manuscripts & Archives holds several collections relating to the development and practice of the visual arts in Ireland including the papers of two Directors of the National Gallery of Ireland:

  • MSS 6910-7079: the papers of Thomas Bodkin (1887-1961)
  • MSS 7985-8190: the papers of Thomas McGreevy (1893-1967)

Artists’ papers include:

  • MSS 10752-10799: Mildred Butler (1858-1941)
  • MS 10548: Dorothy Kay (1886-1964), including material relating to Beatrice Campbell (1881-1970)
  • MS 3199 et al: Edith Anna Oenone Somerville (1858-1949)
  • MSS 4499-4531: Estella Solomons (1882-1968)
  • MS 4592-4618: George William Russell (Æ) (1867-1935)
  • MSS 5970-6167: the archives of the Harry Clarke studio

Architects’ papers include

  • MSS 3868-3900: Harold Leask (1882-1964)
  • MS 10049: Percy le Clerc (1914-2002)

Archival material relating to historic buildings can be found within the estate collections of landed families:

  • MSS 3974-84: the Connolly papers
  • MS 11183: the papers of the Earls of Courtown
  • MSS 4181-84: Sir Philip Crampton
  • Trinity College Dublin’s own buildings are some of the most architecturally important buildings in Ireland, and the College Archives contain building records

Catalogues and Bibliography

Catalogues for individual collections are available in the reading room of Manuscripts & Archives.

E.J. McParland, "The College Buildings" in: C.H. Holland (ed) Trinity College Dublin and the Idea of a University (Dublin, 1991)

O. Rauchbauer, The Edith Œnone Somerville Archive in Drishane: A Catalogue and an Evaluative Essay (Dublin: Irish Manuscripts Commission, 1995)

M. Reynolds, Everything You Do is a Portrait of Yourself. Dorothy Kay: A Biography (Rosebank, [South Africa]: Alec Marjorie Reynolds, 1989)

J.A.Stevens, Writing and Illustrating Ireland: The Somerville and Ross Exhibition, Trinity College Dublin (Dublin, 2002)