Dr Alison FitzGerald

    History

    Lecturer

    Rhetoric House
    42
    (01) 708 6257

    Biography

    Research Interests

    Research interests include: The decorative arts and craft history; Irish design history and material culture, in particular, the history of goldsmiths, jewellers and allied traders; the production and consumption of luxury goods in the British Atlantic world during the eighteenth century.

    Books

      Year Publication
    2016 Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Selling, Consuming.
    FitzGerald Alison (2016) Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Selling, Consuming. Oxford: Routledge. [Details]

    Book Chapters

      Year Publication
    2015 'A sterling trade: making and selling silver in Ireland'
    Laffan, William and Monkhouse, Christopher (2015) 'A sterling trade: making and selling silver in Ireland' In: Ireland: crossroads of art & design, 1690-1840. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. [Details]
    2014 ''Desiring to look sprucish': objects in context at Carton'
    FitzGerald, A. (2014) ''Desiring to look sprucish': objects in context at Carton' In: Carton and the FitzGeralds. Dublin: UCD Press. [Details]
    2012 'Fighting for a 'small provincial establishment': the Cork goldsmiths and their quest for a local assay office'
    FitzGerald, A (2012) 'Fighting for a 'small provincial establishment': the Cork goldsmiths and their quest for a local assay office' In: Irish provincial cultures in the long eighteenth century. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [IR Link] [Details]
    2009 'Taste in high life: Dining in the Dublin town house'
    FitzGerald, A. (2009) 'Taste in high life: Dining in the Dublin town house' In: The Dublin Townhouse: Form, function, finance. Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details]
    2008 'The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin'
    FitzGerald, A. (2008) 'The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin' In: Georgian Dublin. Dublin: [Details]
    2003 'Contributor'
    FitzGerald, A. (2003) 'Contributor' In: The Encyclopedia of Ireland. Dublin: [Details]

    Peer Reviewed Journals

      Year Publication
    2007 '‘Astonishing automata: Staging spectacle in eighteenth-century Dublin’, Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies'
    FitzGerald, A. (2007) '‘Astonishing automata: Staging spectacle in eighteenth-century Dublin’, Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies'. THE JOURNAL OF THE IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY, 10 :18-34 [Details]
    2001 'The production of silver in late-Georgian Dublin’, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies'
    FitzGerald, A. (2001) 'The production of silver in late-Georgian Dublin’, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies'. THE JOURNAL OF THE IRISH GEORGIAN SOCIETY, 4 :8-84 [Details]

    Other Journals

      Year Publication
    2013 'Rustic sophisticate'
    FitzGerald, A. (2013) 'Rustic sophisticate' Irish Arts Review, . [Details]
    2008 'From muse to laureate'
    FitzGerald, A. (2008) 'From muse to laureate' Irish Arts Review, 25 . [Details]
    2007 'Jewellery’s new wave'
    FitzGerald, A. (2007) 'Jewellery’s new wave' Irish Arts Review, . [Details]
    2007 'Oliver St. George’s passion for plate'
    FitzGerald, A. (2007) 'Oliver St. George’s passion for plate' Silver Studies, 22 :51-61. [Details]
    2005 'Cosmopolitan commerce: The Dublin goldsmith Robert Calderwood'
    Fitzgerald, A. (2005) 'Cosmopolitan commerce: The Dublin goldsmith Robert Calderwood' Apollo, :46-52. [Details]