New: Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture

Classics Ireland vol. 31 (2024) is now published!

This is a themed volume on Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture, edited by Ciarán Rua O’Neill, University College Dublin, and Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Principal Investigator of the ERC-funded project Classical Influences and Irish Culture.

It provides the first dedicated and comprehensive study of Graeco-Roman influences across Irish visual and material culture from the Middle Ages to today. It features new research that considers an expansive range of material to advance our understanding of the complex interconnections between classical antiquity and Irish visual aesthetics.

Research for this volume has been funded by the European Research Council (grant no. 818366), following a conference funded by the Carlsberg Foundation.

Table of Contents

1. Front Matter, i-iv pdf
2. Isabelle Torrance & Ciarán Rua O’Neill. “Graeco-Roman Influences in Irish Visual and Material Culture: Introduction”, 1-19. pdf
3. Griffin Murray, “Roman and Romano-British Cultural Influence in Early Medieval Ireland: Some Evidence from Fine Metalwork”, 20-49. pdf
4. Rachel Moss, “Rome in Stone: Classicism in Medieval Irish Sculpture and Architecture”, 50-79. pdf
5. Finola O’Kane, “Marshalling Classicism in Ireland’s Interests: Two Revolutionary Landscapes, 1690 and 1916”, 80-97. pdf
6. Nicola Figgis, “Graeco-Roman Source Material in the Work of Eighteenth-Century Irish Painters and Draughtsmen in Italy”, 98-128. pdf
7. Paula Murphy, “‘Four years, winter and summer, in the chilling Capitoline museum’: Irish Sculpture and Classical Antiquity in the Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, 129-162. pdf
8. Lynda Mulvin, “The Reception of Greek and Roman Antiquities in Ireland: Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Museum Collections and The Naturalist’s Companion by Kenelm Henry Digby”, 163-185. pdf
9. Ciarán Rua O’Neill, “Living Allegories: ‘Hibernicising’ Women in Irish Visual Culture, c.1801-1851”, 186-222. pdf
10. Jack Quin, “The Creation of Tradition in the Free State: Prizes, Pageantry and Classical Influences”, 223-246. pdf
11. Isabelle Torrance, “Representing Oedipus and his Family: Visual and Material Politics in Irish Productions”, 247-277. pdf
12. Robert O’Byrne, “Twilight of the Gods? Classical Mythology and Motifs in Contemporary Irish Art”, 278-298. pdf
13. Contributors, 299-300. pdf