IRISH ARCHITECTURAL AND DECORATIVE STUDIES – authors' index, vols 1-10

ed. William Laffan

ISBN 978 0948037 641    64pp (paperback)   24x17cm    225g   

Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies reached its tenth anniversary in 2008, continuing the long publishing record of the Irish Georgian Society, which, since its earliest days, has been committed to scholarship on Ireland’s artistic and architectural heritage (having previously published the Bulletin for forty years). Hundreds of closely argued scholarly texts have been published by the Society, and volume 10 of IA&DS seemed an appropriate moment to produce an index to the almost ninety articles which appeared in the first ten volumes of the Journal. With the flourishing of art-historical and architectural studies in Ireland, scholarly tools for searching published and unpublished research are vitally important.

• index also incorporated into the limited clothbound edition of Volume 10 

EXTRACT

"The index gives a flavour of the breadth of the subject matter the Journal covers: from from the assonant ‘a’s – Aasleagh, Abbeyfeale, Abbeyleix – to the sonorous ‘z’s – Zafforini, Zamboni, Zanetti. All aspects of Irish heritage are here. There are, of course, articles on great houses, Ballyfin, Mount Stewart, Dromoland, and individual architects, Dukart, Morrison, Mulvany. Some might note an eighteenth-century bias, though Pugin is indexed in nine of the ten volumes, and Gandon in only eight. Periods and topics covered range from Art and Crafts in Kilkenny to medieval churches in south Leinster. There are articles on individual building typologies from sporting lodges to railway stations, while material culture in its widest sense is explored – furniture, glass, fireworks and automata. Painting is not neglected, with studies of Charles Jervas, Thomas Pooley and Jeremiah Hodges Mulcahy, while the histories of patronage, exhibiting and collecting are also discussed. The index will hopefully prove useful for those seeking a passing reference as much as an entire article. It may serve as an introduction to those unfamiliar with the Journal, while at the same time allowing the ten volumes to be explored in different, less sequential, ways. In total, some 3,500 individual items are indexed. To supplement the main index, we carry a listing of contents for all ten volumes and an authors index, listing all articles alphabetically by authors’ name.

— from the preface by William Laffan