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Funerary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh

Funerary Monuments and the Architecture of Death is a body of new research disseminated in academic, sector and mainstream publications 2008-2013. It includes the first comprehensive account of one of the most distinguished collections of funerary sculpture and architecture in Ireland, yet one hitherto neglected- ‘Funerary Monuments & Memorials in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh (2013) and research of Kensal Green and of Gaffin in Ireland. The body of work comprises an authored book ‘John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) and the Cemetery Movement' (2008); 2 scholarly editions ‘Two Outstanding Monuments in the General Cemetery of All Souls, Kensal Green: The French Connection and Other Matters’ (2009), ‘The Protestant Cemetery in Rome’ (2010); 6 journal and magazine articles ‘Church Monuments in Hampshire: A Petrean Connection’ (2008), ‘New Life for Houses of the Dead’ (2009), ‘A Thompsonesque Tombstone in Ulster’ (2010), ‘The Drelincourt Monument in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh’(2011), ‘ “Perfected by the Hand of Taste”: Funerary Monuments in St Patrick’s Cathedral, Armagh’(2011), ‘Gaffin in Ireland: The Pottinger Memorial’ (2012); 2 papers -‘Salubrious Dwellings for the Dead’ (2009), ‘Transformations: landscape-Garden to Garden Cemetery’ (2011/12) [paper, presented in two venues]. The research was further shared in related contributions to the Daily Mail, The Times, Times Literary Supplement and THE.

While the outputs share significant scholarship, each publication is an original study. Individually and together they form a unique and essential point of reference in the understanding and study of mausolea, cemeteries, funerary monuments and memorials. Taken as a whole they encompass history, criticism, theory and the aesthetics of architecture, applied and decorative arts, conservation, craft, and design in mausolea, cemeteries, funerary monuments and memorials. The work develops research methodology in a particular area, with intellectual coherence across the publications. The high degree of accuracy and depth of research leads to new findings, interpretations and insights.