Niamh Nicghabhann Coleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4625857 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niamh Nicghabhann Coleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niamh Nicghabhann |
| FAMILY NAME | Coleman |
| SIGNATURE | COLEMAN N N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Limerick |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0025-2350 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
That's a powerful map
New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’
This article examines Catholic architecture in Ireland prior to the passage of An act for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects (10 Geo IV, c. 7), popularly known as the Act of Emancipation, in 1829. It focuses on one case study building — the chapel, now church, of St John the Baptist in Cashel, County Tipperary. Bringing together a range of documentary and visual sources, this building is analysed according to its site, its specif…
Erskine Nicol and the representation of national and religious identities in nineteenth-century Ireland
This article investigates the visual representation of Irish Catholicism in mid-nineteenth century genre painting through a close analysis of St Patrick’s Day (1856), a picturesque genre painting by the Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. In doing so, it will explore why artists like Nicol, Frederic William Burton and others chose to equate Irish rural Catholicism with romantic ideas of nature and outdoor ‘primitive’ worship. This tradition of represe…
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house’
This article explores the deliberate invocation and communication of ideas of ‘magnificence’ by Catholic building projects across Ireland between 1850 and 1900. Through an analysis of the rhetoric and discourse surrounding the construction of three case studies in Tipperary, Limerick, and Armagh, the article identifies shared concerns with articulating architectural magnificence through drawing attention to the site, on architectural detail and f…
Margaret McNair Stokes (1832–1900)
In her own time, Margaret McNair Stokes (1832‐1900) was an esteemed antiquarian and artist. Her work on early Christian architecture and monumental sculpture in Ireland was pioneering and foundational and continues to inform contemporary research on these topics. Facilitated by her family and their social networks, Stokes was part of an active antiquarian culture based in Dublin which involved membership of scholarly associations as well as socia…
Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
I first heard Ina Boyle’s work performed on a wet Sunday afternoon in the Kevin Barry Recital Room at the National Concert Hall as part of Composing the Island, a series of concerts during 2016 sho
A development of practical Catholic Emancipation’
The infrastructures of devotion and religious worship in Ireland changed dramatically during the course of the nineteenth century. This article examines the foundation stone ceremonies that marked the beginning of several large-scale building Roman Catholic church building projects between 1850 and 1900, and in particular considers the extent to which these highly visible and ceremonial events prefigured the more permanent occupation of public sp…
City walls, bathroom stalls and tweeting the Taoiseach
This paper maps and critically positions a range of creative strategies used by artists, groups and individuals as part of the campaign to broaden legal access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland. Using an art historical methodology involving the description and interpretation of specific creative actions or works, this article surveys a range of protest actions that have taken place beyond the space of the museum, gallery or theatre between 2…
Medieval Ireland and the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme
This essay considers the position of Irish medieval buildings in the early years of the twentieth century. Focusing on the treatment of the oratory of St. Lua at Killaloe, it examines the ways in which the ruins of the medieval past were used to signify a range of political, religious and cultural ideas and attitudes. The rising water levels following the Shannon Scheme works (begun in 1925) meant that this stone oratory was moved from its origin…
Designing policy
How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its ev…
Commemorating the Irish Famine
City walls, bathroom stalls and tweeting the Taoiseach
This paper maps and critically positions a range of creative strategies used by artists, groups and individuals as part of the campaign to broaden legal access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland. Using an art historical methodology involving the description and interpretation of specific creative actions or works, this article surveys a range of protest actions that have taken place beyond the space of the museum, gallery or theatre between 2…
A development of practical Catholic Emancipation’
The infrastructures of devotion and religious worship in Ireland changed dramatically during the course of the nineteenth century. This article examines the foundation stone ceremonies that marked the beginning of several large-scale building Roman Catholic church building projects between 1850 and 1900, and in particular considers the extent to which these highly visible and ceremonial events prefigured the more permanent occupation of public sp…
Designing policy
How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its ev…
Commemorating the Irish Famine
Medieval Ireland and the Shannon Hydro-Electric Scheme
This essay considers the position of Irish medieval buildings in the early years of the twentieth century. Focusing on the treatment of the oratory of St. Lua at Killaloe, it examines the ways in which the ruins of the medieval past were used to signify a range of political, religious and cultural ideas and attitudes. The rising water levels following the Shannon Scheme works (begun in 1925) meant that this stone oratory was moved from its origin…
Designing policy
How do ideas become policies? What route do they take from inception to implementation and what criteria are used to evaluate one set of proposals against another? This paper examines the development of the Creative Work Fellowship policy proposal in Limerick, tracing the origins of the idea, itself a contended and negotiated object, from discussions between academics and policy-makers through to scoping, pitching and scaling the policy to its ev…
A development of practical Catholic Emancipation’
The infrastructures of devotion and religious worship in Ireland changed dramatically during the course of the nineteenth century. This article examines the foundation stone ceremonies that marked the beginning of several large-scale building Roman Catholic church building projects between 1850 and 1900, and in particular considers the extent to which these highly visible and ceremonial events prefigured the more permanent occupation of public sp…
City walls, bathroom stalls and tweeting the Taoiseach
This paper maps and critically positions a range of creative strategies used by artists, groups and individuals as part of the campaign to broaden legal access to abortion in the Republic of Ireland. Using an art historical methodology involving the description and interpretation of specific creative actions or works, this article surveys a range of protest actions that have taken place beyond the space of the museum, gallery or theatre between 2…
Ina Boyle (1889–1967)
I first heard Ina Boyle’s work performed on a wet Sunday afternoon in the Kevin Barry Recital Room at the National Concert Hall as part of Composing the Island, a series of concerts during 2016 sho
Margaret McNair Stokes (1832–1900)
In her own time, Margaret McNair Stokes (1832‐1900) was an esteemed antiquarian and artist. Her work on early Christian architecture and monumental sculpture in Ireland was pioneering and foundational and continues to inform contemporary research on these topics. Facilitated by her family and their social networks, Stokes was part of an active antiquarian culture based in Dublin which involved membership of scholarly associations as well as socia…
Erskine Nicol and the representation of national and religious identities in nineteenth-century Ireland
This article investigates the visual representation of Irish Catholicism in mid-nineteenth century genre painting through a close analysis of St Patrick’s Day (1856), a picturesque genre painting by the Scottish artist Erskine Nicol. In doing so, it will explore why artists like Nicol, Frederic William Burton and others chose to equate Irish rural Catholicism with romantic ideas of nature and outdoor ‘primitive’ worship. This tradition of represe…
I have loved, O Lord, the beauty of thy house’
This article explores the deliberate invocation and communication of ideas of ‘magnificence’ by Catholic building projects across Ireland between 1850 and 1900. Through an analysis of the rhetoric and discourse surrounding the construction of three case studies in Tipperary, Limerick, and Armagh, the article identifies shared concerns with articulating architectural magnificence through drawing attention to the site, on architectural detail and f…
New and elegant chapels, either built or in the act of building’
This article examines Catholic architecture in Ireland prior to the passage of An act for the relief of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects (10 Geo IV, c. 7), popularly known as the Act of Emancipation, in 1829. It focuses on one case study building — the chapel, now church, of St John the Baptist in Cashel, County Tipperary. Bringing together a range of documentary and visual sources, this building is analysed according to its site, its specif…
That's a powerful map
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