Dr Conor Lucey
Lecturer in History of Art and Architecture, UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy
conor.lucey@ucd.ie
A graduate of the National College of Art and Design (1992) and University College Dublin (MA, 2003), Conor Lucey has recently completed his PhD thesis entitled '"Made in the new Taste": domestic neoclassicism and the Dublin building industry, 1765-1801' (2008). He is the author of The Stapleton collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior, published in 2007 by Churchill House Press in association with the National Library of Ireland, and curated the accompanying exhibition, entitled ‘Decorating the Georgian Interior’, at the Irish Architectural Archive. He has recently completed a postdoctoral digital content project through the Irish Virtual Research Library and Archive (IVRLA), a component of the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland, which is funded by the Higher Education Authority (HEA) through the Programme for Research in Third-Level Institutions (PRTLI). He has recently been selected as incoming editor of Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, an appointment that will commence with vol. 13 (2010).