Professor Christine Casey
Professor in Architectural History, History Of Art
Biography
Christine Casey is an international authority on the City of Dublin and on the early modern interior in Europe, Britain and Ireland. https://www.tcd.ie/History_of_Art/people/caseych.php She has held a series of international fellowships and awards and is currently the principal investigator on an IRC Advanced Laureate Award project CRAFTVALUE (www.craftvalue.org). She has published widely on Irish architecture including two volumes in the Yale University Press Buildings of Ireland series and has published a wide-ranging study of architecture and decoration in early modern Europe, Britain and Ireland (Making magnificence, Yale 2017) for which she received the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain in 2018. A member of the Royal Irish Academy and an honorary member of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, she has served as a trustee, board and committee member on national organisations for architectural heritage including the Alfred Beit Trust, the Castletown Foundation, the Heritage Council, the Irish Architectural Archive and the Irish Georgian Society.
Publications and Further Research Outputs
Peer-Reviewed Publications
Andrew Tierney and Melanie Hayes (eds.), Between Design and Making: Architecture and craftsmanship 1630-1760, London, University College London Press, 2024, 368pp
Christine Casey and Melanie Hayes, Enriching Architecture: Craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760, London, UCL Press, 2023, vii - 362pp
Enriching Architecture in, editor(s)Christine Casey & Melanie Hayes , Enriching Architecture: craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production 1660-1760, London, 2023, pp1 - 13, [Christine Casey & Melanie Hayes]
Christine Casey, 'The dynamics of migrant craftsmanship in eighteenth-century Britain', Interpreting italians abroad conference volume, Interpreting italians abroad, Friedrich-Alexander Universitat, Erlangen-Nurnberg, 23rd October 2020, edited by Sarah Lynch , Officina Libraria, 2023, pp1 - 15
Christine Casey, (Virtuosity in early modern stucco production and related building arts), (Virtuosité. Éthique et esthétique du geste technique du Moyen Âge au xxe siècle), Institut national d'histoire d'art, 14-18 January 2021, 2023, 12pp
Christine Casey, Melanie Hayes, (Enriching architecture: craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760), 1st, London, University College London, 2023, 1 - 400pp
Agreeable to live in in, editor(s)Christine Casey, Melanie Hayes, eds , (Enriching architecture: craft and its conservation in Anglo-Irish building production, 1660-1760), London, University College London, 2023, pp289 - 315, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, Crafting identities: artisan culture in London, Review of Crafting identities: artisan culture in London, by Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin , Journal of Design History, , epac014, 2022
Christine Casey, The stones of Dublin. Science, art and symbolism in the Victorian city, Cambridge Group for Irish Studies, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 23rd November, 2022, Cambridge Group for Irish Studies
Christine Casey, Craft in eighteenth-century Irish architecture, The Attingham Trust Study Programme, Maynooth University, 15th September, 2022, The Attingham Trust Study Programme
Christine Casey, Crafting Identities: Artisan Culture in London, c.1550-1640, by Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin , Journal of Design History, , 35, (2), 2022, p191-192
Christine Casey, Richard Castle, Architect, 4th November 2022, In:Royal Dublin Society Library Speaker Series, 2022, Russborough House
Christine Casey, Building Anglo-Ireland, The Parnell Lecture, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 4th February 2022, 2022, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Christine Casey, Surface Value: ways of seeing decoration in architecture, Architectural Histories, 9, (1), 2021, p1 - 13
Christine Casey , Pride and Prejudice: the eighteenth-century interior in the historiography of British architecture , Interiors for Display: the art of the eighteenth-century interior in the Dutch REpublic and Europe, Leiden University, 15 April , 2021, Leiden University
Christine Casey, Silent partner: design and making in the early modern architecture of Britain, RA. Revista de Arquitectura, Who designs architecture?, 23, 2021, p132 - 145
Christine Casey, Marble in architecture. The competing claims of making and meaning., Marble. Connections and Refractions, Bibliotheca Hertziana, 16-18 September, 2021
Animating the Georgian townhouse in, The best address in town: Henrietta Street and its first residents, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2020, ppix - xiii, [Melanie Hayes]
Christine Casey contributor, 'History of Newman House', Making a Museum: the story of MoLI, RTE, 2020, -
Christine Casey, Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry, Journal of the County Louth Historical and Archaeological Society, 21, (2019), 2020, p475 - 462
Christine Casey, Surface value: ways of seeing decoration in architecture, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain, 7th December , 2020
Christine Casey, Soffit and wall: interior finishes in the eighteenth century, Craftsmanship and its conservation in the architecture of Britain and Ireland , Trinity College Dublin , 30th October 2020, 2020
Christine Casey contributor, 'History of Parnell Square', Site Specific 2020 Parnell Square, Dublin, 2020, -
Christine Casey and Patrick Wyse Jackson, The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: a model of Victorian craftsmanship, first, Dublin, Four Courts, 2019, 1 - 400pp
Christine Casey, Ornament and craftsmanship in the architecture of James Gibbs, The Georgian Group Journal, The architecture of James Gibbs, Society of Antiquaries of London, September 2018, edited by Geoffrey Tyack , xxvii, The Georgian Group, 2019, pp27 - 42
Introduction 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, pp1 - 12, [Christine Casey and Patrick Wyse Jackson]
Christine Casey, The Georgian London Town House:Building, Collecting and Display, Review of The Georgian London Town House:Building, Collecting and Display, by Susanna Avery-Quash and Kate Redford editors , The Burlington Magazine, 161, (1400), 2019, p972-973
The Museum Building's radical polychromy 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, pp53 - 78, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, Making Victorian Dublin International Symposium, 9-10 February 2018, In:Making Victorian Dublin, 2018, TCD
Christine Casey, Pioneer polychromy: patriotism, geology, industry and aesthetics in Irish Victorian architecture, European Architectural History Network 5th International Meeting, Tallinn, Estonia, 14 June 2018, 2018
Art and architecture in the long eighteenth century in, Cambridge History of Ireland, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp402 - 464, [christine casey]
Christine Casey, Making magnificence: architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth-century interior, first, London and New Haven, Yale University Press, 2017, 1 - 316pp
'Newman House, the later works of restoration' in, editor(s)Nicola Figgis , Art History after Francoise Henry, Cork, Gandon Editions, 2016, pp182 - 195, [christine casey]
Architectural and Decorative Studies , Dublin, Irish Georgian Society, [eds.], 2015-2020
Christine Casey, 'Building on Beard: maestri ticinesi in Britain and Ireland', Maestri ticinesi, magistri grigioni: Swiss-Italian Architects and Craftsmen in Early Modern Europe, American Association for Italian Studies Annual Conference, Zurich, June 2014, Zurich, June 2014, 2014
Christine Casey and Conor Lucey (convenors) , 'Architects, Craftsmen and Interior Ornament, 1400-1800', June 2014, In:European Architectural History Network, 2014, Turin , European Architectural History Network
Christine Casey, 'Carlo Maria Pozzi, stuccatore', , Zeitschrift fuer schweizerische Archaeologie und Kunstgeschichte, vol.70,, ( no.4 ), 2013, p279 - 292
Grand tour: the passage of migrant craftsmen from Lake Lugano to Co. Kildare in, editor(s)Raymond Gillespie & Roy Foster , Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century, Dublin, Four Courts, 2012, pp1 - 272, [Raymond Gillespie & Roy Foster]
Christine Casey & Conor Lucey, Editors, Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, 1st, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, 1 - 266pp
'New light on the court chapel at Wuerzburg' in, editor(s)C.Casey & C.Lucey , Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp240 - 253, [Christine Casey]
'The earning power of Ticinese stuccatori' in, editor(s)C.Casey & C.Lucey , Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2012, pp129 - 142, [Christine Casey]
Rivista Artisti dei Laghi, Como, Associazione per la protezione del patrimonio artistico e culturale della Valle Intelvi, [eds.], 2011
Christine Casey , Book Review, Review of The town house in Georgian London, by Rachel Stewart , European Architectural History Network (EAHN) , 111, 2011, p2
Christine Casey, Geoffrey Beard, Decorative plasterwork in Great Britain, Review of Decorative plasterwork in Great Britain, by Geoffrey Beard , English Heritage Historical Review, 6, 2011, p2
Painting Irish Folk Life: the picture collection in, editor(s)Críostóir Mac Cárthaigh, Séamas Ó Catháin, Ríonach uí Ógáin, Seosamh Watson , Treasures of the National Folklore Collection, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, pp95 - 103, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, Eighteenth century plasterwork in Ireland and Europe, April 9-10, 2010, 2010, Trinity College Dublin
Christine Casey, Editor, The eighteenth-century Dublin town house, Dublin, Four Courts Press, 2010, 1 - 286pp
'The Dublin domestic formula' in, editor(s)Christine Casey , The eighteenth-century Dublin town house, Dublin, Four Courts, 2010, pp46 - 58, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, An introduction to the architectural heritage of County Louth, Dublin, National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, 2008, 1 - 132pp
Christine Casey, 'Unsightly and unbecoming': the progress of the Gothic Revival in a metropolitan parish" , Studies in the Gothic Revival, Irish Architectural Archive, 2005, edited by Michael McCarthy & Karina O'Neill , Four Courts Press, 2008, pp216 - 231
From Pleasure Garden to Seat of Learning in, editor(s)Niamh Puirséil & Ruth Ferguson , Farewell to the Terrace, Dublin, University College Dublin, 2007, pp19 - 29, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, Dublin, 1st, London, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2005, 1 - 756pp
'Miscelanea Structura Curiosa: impetus, sources and design in, editor(s)William Laffan , Miscelanea Structura Curiosa, Church Hill, Churchill Press, 2005, pp35 - 45, [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, Tollymore: the story of an Irish demesne, Review of Tollymore: the story of an Irish demesne, by The Earl of Roden , County Louth Archaeological and Historical Journal, 26, (1), 2005, p144
Christine Casey & Loreto Calderon, C.Casey & Loreto Calderon, 'Number 12 Merrion Square: townhouse of the Right Honourable William Brownlow', pp.10-21., Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, V, 2002, p10 - 21
Christine Casey, Boiseries, bankers and bills:a tale of Charlemont and Whaley, Lord Charlemont and his circle, National Gallery, edited by Michael McCarthy , Four Courts Press, 2001, pp47 - 59
Christine Casey, 'A Dublin pirate at the Huntington', Huntington Library Quarterly,, 61, (1), 1999, p93 - 99
Christine Casey, .'Newly discovered building accounts for Charlemont House and the Casino at Marino',, Apollo, CXL, (448), 1999, p42 - 50
Christine Casey, Plain pomp! Eighteenth-century Dublin domestic architecture, Tenth international congress on the Enlightenement, University College dublin, 27 -29 October 1999, 1999
Christine Casey, 'The Regency House in Ireland', The Regency Great House, Oxford University, edited by Malcolm Airs , University of Oxford, 1998, pp39 - 48
Christine Casey, Lord Burlington: architecture and life, Review of Lord Burlington: architecture and life, by Toby Barnard and Jane Clark, editors , Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr, 11, 1996, p176-78
Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 37, (1995), 1 - 95p, Christine Casey and Christopher Ward, [eds.], 1995
Christine Casey, The Georgian Villa, Review of The Georgian Villa, by Dana Arnold , Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 37, 1995, p92-94
Christine Casey, Historical sources for the conservation of the Dublin townhouse, The Town - Conservation in the urban area, Dublin Castle, 1995, edited by Jane Fenlon , Irish Georgian Society, 1995, pp58 - 63
Christine Casey, 'Such a piece of curiosity':John Aheron's General Treatise of Architecture, The Georgian Group Journal , 1995, p65 - 80
Christine Casey, A wax bas-relief by Patrick Cunningham, Irish Arts Review Yearbook, 11, 1995, p117 - 118
Christine Casey, The restoration of Newman House, Irish Arts Review Yearbook , 10, 1994, p111 - 116
Christine Casey, Dublin, a Grand Tour, Review of Dublin, a Grand Tour, by Desmond Guinness and Jacqueline O'Brien , Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 36, 1994, p87-88
Christine Casey, De architectura: an Irish eighteenth-century gloss, Architectural History, xxxv, 1994, p80 - 95
Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, Dublin, Irish Georgian Society, [eds.], 1993-1996
Christine Casey, A list of works pertaining to architecture, building and engineering published in Ireland between 1700 and 1780, Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society, 35, 1993, p25 - 36
Christine Casey & Alistair Rowan, North-Leinster, 1st, London, Penguin Books, 1993, 1 - 576pp
Christine Casey, Newman House as a case history, Environment and development in Ireland, University College Dublin, 1991, edited by John Feehan , University College Dublin, 1992, pp118 - 122
Christine Casey, Joseph Ravell's A Map of the Town and Suburbs of Drogheda 1749, County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society, 22, (4), 1992, p361 - 363
Christine Casey, Miscelanea Structura Curiosa, Irish Arts Review, 1990, p85 - 91
Christine Casey, Subscription networks for Irish architectural books, The Long Room, 35, 1990, p41 - 49
Christine Casey, John Aheron's General Treatise of Architecture, Regionalism Challenging the Canon, Association of Art Historians Dublin, June 1989, 1989
Christine Casey, Gaetano Brunetti, a source for eighteenth-century Irish ornament, Irish Arts Review, 1988, p244 - 245
Christine Casey, Architectural books in eighteenth-century Ireland, Eighteenth-century Ireland, 3, 1988, p105 - 113
Christine Casey, The Greek Revival Courthouse at Dundalk, Irish Arts Review, 1986, p16 - 20
Christine Casey, John Neville, Louth County Surveyor, County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society Journal, 21, (1), 1986, p23 - 30
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
Christine Casey, Richard Castle. What we know and what we need to know., Richard Castle, Architect., Russborough House, 4 November 2022, 2022, The Attingham Trust Study Programme
Christine Casey, 'The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: industry and art in Victorian Ireland' , Cambridge Architectural History Seminar, Queens' College, Cambridge, 23 May 2022, 2022
Christine Casey, Achieving classicism: the role of craft in eighteenth-century architecture, Achieving classicism: the role of craft in eighteenth-century architecture, Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, Cambridge University, 3rd December 2021, 2021, Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture, Cambridge University
Christine Casey, 'The history of Newman House', The Making of a Museum, RTE television, RTE television, 2020, -
Christine Casey, European craftsmen in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland, Royal Dublin Society Library Speaker Series, Royal Dublin Society, 26 June, 2020, Royal Dublin Society
Making Victorian Dublin, 'Making Victorian Dublin', Dublin, TCD, 2018, -
Christine Casey, Architects, stuccatori and the eighteenth century interior, Union League Foundation Educational Programme , Union League, Philadelphia, 22 October, 2018, Union League Foundation
Christine Casey, Making magnificence, Making magnificence, Driehaus Museum, Chicago, 24 October, 2018, Institute of Classical Art and Architecture
Christine Casey, Complexity and contradiction in the Palladian interior, English architecture 1690-1750: to be or not to be Palladian, Oxford University, 11-13 May 2018, 2018, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education
Christine Casey, 'Designing Ireland', Designing Ireland, RTE, 2015, -
Christine Casey, From Senate House to County Kildare: migrant craftsmen in Britain and Ireland, The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies, Magdalene College, Cambridge, February 10th 2015, 2015, The Cambridge Group for Irish Studies
Christine Casey, 'Contributor on Dublin architecture', Building Ireland , Dublin 2014, Esras Films, BAI, RTE, 2014, -
Introductory essay, O. Fitzpatrick & R.Roberto , Art researchers guide to Dublin, 1st, Leeds, Art Libraries Society, 2013, pp6-12 , [Christine Casey]
Christine Casey, A palladian palazzo in Ireland's capital, Country Life, (8-10.2010), 2010, p46 - 52
Christine Casey, Recording Dublin, Recording the fabric of great cities, Survey of London, English Heritage, London, 12 May 2010, 2010
Christine Casey, River, Rivalry and Revolt:history and the built fabric of Dublin city Sir John T.Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, Sir John T.Gilbert Commemorative Lecture, Dublin City Library & Archive, 23 January , 2008, Dublin City Public Libraries, 1 - 24pp
Christine Casey, River, rivalry and revolt: history and built fabric of Dublin city, River, rivalry and revolt: history and built fabric of Dublin city, The Gamble House, Pasadena, USA, 27 March, 2008, University of Southern California Institute for British and Irish Studies
Christine Casey, The Dublin-ness of Dublin architecture, Irish Georgian Society Annual Lecture, IGS Chapter Palm Beach, Florida, 17 February, 2007, IGS Chapter Palm Beach
Christine Casey, Dublin: an architectural odyssey, Dublin: an architectural odyssey, York Georgian Society UK, 4th December, 2006, York Georgian Society UK
Christine Casey, Richard Castle and Powerscourt House, California Institute of Technology President's Circle , Powerscourt House, 23 September, 2003, California Institute of Technology President's Circle
Christine Casey, Dublin's grander houses, The eighteenth century aristocratic house, Oxford University, 4th January, 2003, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education
Christine Casey, Stackallan House , 1st, Belfast, privately published, 2000, 1 - 47pp
Christine Casey, Reticence and display- Irish town and country houses of the Georgian period, Irish Studies Symposium, The Peabody Institute, Baltimore, 24 October, 1998, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Christine Casey & Christopher Ward, A window on history, History Ireland, 5, (1), 1997, p5 - 6
Christine Casey, The Dublin townhouse in the eighteenth century, The Dublin townhouse in the eighteenth century, Royal Archaeological Institute London, 12 October, 1994, Royal Archaeological Institute London
Research Expertise
Projects
- Title
- 3D CRAFT :revealing hand, skill, and technique in historic buildings
- Summary
- Joint project with the National Trust at Clandon Parkm the Office of Public Works and academic partners in Ireland and the UK to explore digital methods of revealing historic craft practice in architecture.
- Funding Agency
- AHRC & IRC
- Title
- Craftvalue: Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate Award
- Summary
- CRAFTVALUE seeks to put making into the major narrative of early modern architecture by illuminating the interface between design and craftsmanship and showing how skills and technology influence architectural production. It aims to produce the first holistic, trans-medial study of architecture and craftsmanship in Britain and Ireland in the early modern period with wide implications for the study of architecture in Europe and beyond.
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 2019
- Date To
- 2023
- Title
- Making Victorian Dublin
- Summary
- This is an interdisciplinary project with the Department of Geology which focuses on the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin as an exemplar for the use of polychrome stone and carved ornament in Dublin's Victorian architecture
- Funding Agency
- Irish Research Council
- Date From
- 9 January 2017
- Date To
- 8 January 2019
- Title
- Buildings of Dublin research project
- Summary
- Primary and secondary source research on the architectural history of Dublin city for Volume II in the Buildings of Ireland series
- Funding Agency
- FAS
- Date From
- 1997
- Date To
- 2003
- Title
- Biographical database of Irish architects
- Summary
- This was the seed funding for what has become the Dictionary of Irish Architects at the Irish Architectural Archive, the most widely used single resource for Irish architectural history.It subsequently received state support.
- Funding Agency
- L.J. Skaggs and Mary C. Skaggs Foundation
- Date From
- 1990
- Date To
- 1992
Recognition
Representations
Royal Irish Academy Culture and Heritage Working Group
The Alfred Beit Foundation Trustee
Lund Humphries Editorial Board for British Architectural History
Newman House Conservation Working Group,University College Dublin
Trustee of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Trustee, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Academic advisor, Heritage Department, Dublin City Council
Board member, Castletown Foundation
Associate, Editorial Panel, Rivista artisti dei laghi, Como, Associazione per la protezione del patrimonio artistico e culturale della Valle Intelvi, Lombardy
National Council for Curriculum & Assessment Member of Junior Certificate Review Panel
Member, Editorial panel, Irish architectural and Decorative Studies
Ministerial appointee, Standing Committee on Architecture, Heritage Council
Editor, Bulletin of the Irish Georgian Society
Board member, Irish Georgian Society
Board member, Irish Architectural Archive
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage, Historical consultant
Awards and Honours
Trinity College Dublin Award for Excellence in Supervision of Research Students
Parnell Fellowship Magdalene College Cambridge
TCD Research Excellence Award
TCD FAHSS Faculty Events Award
Irish Research Council Advanced Laureate
Elected to membership Royal Irish Academy
Elected Friend of the New Guild of the Traditional Plastering Craft
Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
IRC New Horizons Interdisciplinary Award
Scholar in Residence, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice
Elected to Fellowship, Trinity College Dublin
Annie Burr Lewis Publication Award, Yale University
Fondazione Ticino Nostro publication award
FAHSS Innovation Award for establishment of Summer School in the History of Art and Design
The Undergraduate Awards Recognition of Excellence in Lecturing
Environment Fund architectural research award
Trinity Trust Research Award
Arts and Social Science Benefactions Fund award
Paul Mellon Centre for British Art research award
President's teaching award, University College Dublin
University College Dublin President's Research Fellowship
Newman Scholarship, University College Dublin
Huntington Library and Art Gallery, British Art fellowship
Research Fellow, Dupont Museum for Decorative Arts, Winterthur
International Post-graduate fellowship,American Association of University Women, Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard Centre for Studies in Landscape Architecture
Memberships
Trustee of the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain
Irish Landmark Trust, Member
European Architectural History Network, Member
Committee member, Irish Georgian Society
Member, Editorial Board, Irish Georgian Society
Honorary member, Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland Society
Member, Irish Architectural Archive
Louth Historical and Archaeological Society, Member