Dr Alison FitzGerald

Biography
Research Interests
Books
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2016 | Silver in Georgian Dublin: making, selling, consuming.
FitzGerald, A. (2016) Silver in Georgian Dublin: making, selling, consuming. London: Routledge. [Details] |
Edited Books
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2020 | Studies in Irish Georgian Silver
Alison FitzGerald (Ed.). (2020) Studies in Irish Georgian Silver Dublin: Four Courts Press. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
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2007 | 'Oliver St. George’s passion for plate'
Alison FitzGerald (2007) 'Oliver St. George’s passion for plate'. Silver Studies, :51-61 [Details] |
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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] |
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2005 | 'Cosmopolitan commerce: the Dublin goldsmith Robert Calderwood'
FitzGerald, A. (2005) 'Cosmopolitan commerce: the Dublin goldsmith Robert Calderwood'. APOLLO-THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE OF THE ARTS, :46-52 [Details] |
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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] |
Book Chapters
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2017 | 'Frederic William Burton: crafting designs characteristic of Ireland'
FitzGerald, A. (2017) 'Frederic William Burton: crafting designs characteristic of Ireland' In: Marie Bourke (eds). Frederic William Burton: for the love of art. Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland. [Details] |
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2015 | 'A sterling trade: making and selling silver in Ireland'
FitzGerald, A. (2015) 'A sterling trade: making and selling silver in Ireland' In: Laffan, W. and Monkhouse, C (eds). Ireland: crossroads of art & design, 1690-1840. London and New Haven: Yale University Press. [Details] |
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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. [full-text] [Details] |
Conference Publications
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2014 | 'Desiring to look sprucish': objects in context at Carton
FitzGerald, A. (2014) 'Desiring to look sprucish': objects in context at Carton Carton and the FitzGerald's. Carton House, August 2010 [Details] |
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2009 | Taste in high life: dining in the Dublin town house
FitzGerald, A. (2009) Taste in high life: dining in the Dublin town house The eighteenth-century Dublin townhouse: form, function, finance. National Gallery of Ireland, May 2008 [Details] |
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2008 | The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin
FitzGerald, A. (2008) The business of being a goldsmith in eighteenth-century Dublin 'Bare bones of a fanlight': Georgian Dublin, Newman House, May 2006 , pp.127-135 [Details] |
Other Journals
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'Rustic Sophisticate'
FitzGerald, A. 'Rustic Sophisticate' Irish Arts Review, 30 (2) :102-105. [Details] |
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2014 | 'Territory'
FitzGerald, A. (2014) 'Territory' Irish Arts Review, 34 (4) :76-77. [Details] |
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2007 | 'Jewellery’s new wave'
FitzGerald, A. (2007) 'Jewellery’s new wave' Irish Arts Review, . [Details] |
Conference Contributions
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2020 | Selling spectacle: urban recreation in Georgian Ireland.
Alison FitzGerald (2020) Selling spectacle: urban recreation in Georgian Ireland. [Plenary Lecture], Eighteenth-century urban cultures, Queens University Belfast [Details] |
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2019 | The challenges of 'second-city syndrome' in eighteenth-century Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2019) The challenges of 'second-city syndrome' in eighteenth-century Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies Research Seminar Series, Queens University Belfast [Details] |
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2019 | Silver in Georgian Dublin: making, selling, consuming.
Alison FitzGerald (2019) Silver in Georgian Dublin: making, selling, consuming. [Invited Lecture], Invited lecture series, Waterford Museum of Treasures, Waterford Museum of Treasures [Details] |
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2018 | Silver in Georgian Ireland.
Alison FitzGerald (2018) Silver in Georgian Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Dublin City Council/National Museum of Ireland, Culture Club Programme, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks [Details] |
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2018 | Dublin's silver trade during the long eighteenth century.
Alison FitzGerald (2018) Dublin's silver trade during the long eighteenth century. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Silver in Georgian Ireland, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks [Details] |
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2018 | Sources and research methods for understanding the silver trade in Georgian Ireland.
Alison FitzGerald (2018) Sources and research methods for understanding the silver trade in Georgian Ireland. [Invited Lecture], MA Research Seminar, Department of History of Art & Cultural Policy, UCD, Newman House [Details] |
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2017 | Irish Georgian silver: historiography, methodologies and primary sources.
Alison FitzGerald (2017) Irish Georgian silver: historiography, methodologies and primary sources. [Invited Lecture], Postgraduate research seminar, Department of Art History & Cultural Policy, University College Dublin, Newman House [Details] |
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2017 | Spectacles and shows: exhibitions and entertainment in Ireland 1750–1870.
Alison FitzGerald (2017) Spectacles and shows: exhibitions and entertainment in Ireland 1750–1870. [Oral Presentation], Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University, Fellow Research Presentation, Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University [Details] |
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2017 | Silver in Georgian Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2017) Silver in Georgian Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Dublin Festival of History, Terenure Library [Details] |
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2015 | Taking tea with the Georgians.
Alison FitzGerald (2015) Taking tea with the Georgians. [Invited Lecture], Castletown Winter Lecture Series, Castletown House [Details] |
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2015 | Buying luxury goods in eighteenth-century Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2015) Buying luxury goods in eighteenth-century Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Celbridge Historical Society Annual Lecture Series, Kildought House, Celbridge [Details] |
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2015 | Ireland: crossroads of art & design, 1690–1840.
Alison FitzGerald (2015) Ireland: crossroads of art & design, 1690–1840. [Invited Lecture], Ireland: crossroads of art & design, 1690–1840, Art Institute of Chicago [Details] |
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2015 | The 'great customers of plate': country-house silver.
Alison FitzGerald (2015) The 'great customers of plate': country-house silver. [Invited Lecture], Carton Winter Lecture Series, Carton House, Celbridge [Details] |
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2015 | Patina or novelty? Buying luxury goods in Georgian Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2015) Patina or novelty? Buying luxury goods in Georgian Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Irish Georgian Society Annual Lecture Series, City Assembly House, Dublin [Details] |
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2014 | Irish Georgian silver.
Alison FitzGerald (2014) Irish Georgian silver. [Invited Lecture], Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, Research Seminar Series, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London [Details] |
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2014 | Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and the consumption of silver in eighteenth-century Ireland.
Alison FitzGerald (2014) Joseph Leeson, 1st Earl of Milltown and the consumption of silver in eighteenth-century Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Russborough revisited, National Gallery of Ireland [Details] |
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2013 | History's 'little black joke': Cromwell's cabinet?.
Alison FitzGerald (2013) History's 'little black joke': Cromwell's cabinet?. [Invited Lecture], Object matters, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks [Details] |
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2012 | The business of luxury in eighteenth-century Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2012) The business of luxury in eighteenth-century Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Research Seminar, Department of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College Dublin [Details] |
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2012 | Neednots and must haves: buying and selling silver in eighteenth-century Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2012) Neednots and must haves: buying and selling silver in eighteenth-century Dublin. [Invited Lecture], Irish Fine and Decorative Arts Society Research Talks, Kildare Street and University Club [Details] |
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2012 | Credit, capital and commerce: business strategies in Dublin's luxury trades during the long eighteenth century.
Alison FitzGerald (2012) Credit, capital and commerce: business strategies in Dublin's luxury trades during the long eighteenth century. [Invited Lecture], Dublin City Research Group, Annual Symposium, Trinity College Dublin [Details] |
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2012 | Hospitality and high living in Georgian Ireland.
Alison FitzGerald (2012) Hospitality and high living in Georgian Ireland. [Invited Lecture], Irish Architectural Archive, Annual Lecture Series, Irish Architectural Archive [Details] |
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2011 | The most genteel of any in the mechanic way? The silver trade in 18th-century Dublin.
Alison FitzGerald (2011) The most genteel of any in the mechanic way? The silver trade in 18th-century Dublin. [Invited Lecture], University of Leeds, Research Seminars Department of Art History, Leeds University [Details] |
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2010 | Irish Georgian Silver.
Alison FitzGerald (2010) Irish Georgian Silver. [Oral Presentation], National College of Art & Design, MA in Design History & Material Culture, NCAD [Details] |
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2010 | Desiring to 'look sprucish': objects in context at Carton.
Alison FitzGerald (2010) Desiring to 'look sprucish': objects in context at Carton. [Invited Lecture], Annual Conference of the Centre for Historic Irish Houses and Estates, Maynooth University, Carton House, Celbridge [Details] |
Book Review
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2018 | Douglas Bennett, ‘The Goldsmiths of Dublin, six centuries of achievement’ (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018).
FitzGerald, A. (2018) Douglas Bennett, ‘The Goldsmiths of Dublin, six centuries of achievement’ (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2018). Book Review [Details] |
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2013 | Book review of Christine Casey & Conor Lucey (eds), Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012.
FitzGerald, A. (2013) Book review of Christine Casey & Conor Lucey (eds), Decorative plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012. Book Review [Details] |
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2011 | Book review of Mairead Dunleavy, Pomp and Poverty, A history of silk in Ireland (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011.
FitzGerald, A. (2011) Book review of Mairead Dunleavy, Pomp and Poverty, A history of silk in Ireland (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2011. Book Review [Details] |