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Dr. Kathryn Milligan

Assistant Professor (History Of Art)
      
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Dr. Kathryn Milligan

Assistant Professor (History Of Art)

 MILLIGKE@tcd.ie

 


As Assistant Professor in History of Irish Art and its Global Contexts, 1800 - 2000, my main research focus is the depiction of Dublin in painting and print, and ideas and histories around the city as a site of exhibition, display, and artistic exchange, as well as the history of Irish and European art more generally. Recent publications include essays on nineteenth-century exhibition culture, the White Stag Group, C. P. Curran's artistic friendships, and Walter Osborne's domestic paintings. My first monograph, Painting Dublin, 1886"1949: Visualising a Changing City, was published by Manchester University Press in 2020. I was recently a co- curator of the exhibition Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin, 1903 - 1913 held at the State Apartment Galleries, Dublin Castle; I am a regular contributor to the Irish Arts Review, and to the educational programme at the National Gallery of Ireland. I also have extensive experience of working with library and archival collections, which have formed an important aspect of my research and professional activity.
Dublin, London, Paris: Exhibition Culture and the Shaping of an Irish School, 1842 - 1922 in, editor(s)Ciaran O"Neill and Billy Shortall , Seeing Ireland: Art, Culture, and Power in Modern Ireland, USA, University of Notre Dame Press, 2026, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The Visual Spectacle of War in Nineteenth Century Dublin in, editor(s)Paul Huddie, Cathal Billings and Arlene Crampsie , New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, UK, Liverpool University Press, 2025, pp193 - 214, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
The White Stag Group in Ireland, 1939 - 1945 in, editor(s)Fionna Barber and Fintan Cullen , Routledge Companion to Irish Art, UK, Routledge, 2025, pp266 - 276, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Niels Caul, Kathryn Milligan and Anne Fogarty, In the Archives: At Home in Dublin - The Curran-Laird Collection in the James Joyce Library, University College Dublin, Irish University Review, 54, (2), 2024, p379 - 392, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
Walter Osborne and the Domestic Scene: Family and Professional Life in a Dublin Suburb in, editor(s)Jay Rozmann and Heather Laird , Dwelling(s) in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, UK, Liverpool University Press, 2023, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
`A very ready sale": exhibiting, viewing and selling art in Dublin, 1845 " 1849 in, editor(s)Emily Mark-Fitzgerald, Ciaran McCabe and Ciarán Reilly , Dublin and the Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Dublin, UCD Press, 2022, pp133 - 144, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
`Seeing New York": Jack B Yeats and the American City in, editor(s)Cynthia Fowler and Paula Murphy , Crossing the Atlantic: Art History at the Crossroads of Ireland and the United States, UK, Routledge, 2022, pp61 - 75, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Kathryn Milligan, Painting Dublin, 1886 - 1949: Visualising a Changing City, 1st, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2020, Book, PUBLISHED
Temporary Exile: The White Stag Group in Dublin, 1939 " 1946 in, editor(s)Burcu Dogramaci, Mareike Hetschold, Laura Karp Lugo, Rachel Lee, Helene Roth , Arrival Cities: Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies, Belgium, University of Leuven Press, 2020, pp317 - 334, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Kathryn Milligan, Celebrating The Liberator: The Visual and Material Culture of the 1875 O"Connell Centenary, New Hibernia Review/ Iris Éireannach Nua: A Quarterly Record of Irish Studies, 24, (1), 2020, p17 - 38, Journal Article, PUBLISHED
  

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At the Breakfast Table: Osborne, Family Life, and the Interior Scene in, editor(s)Cheryl K. Snay , Homecoming: Walter Osborne"s Portraits of Dublin, USA, Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame; Giles, 2025, [Kathryn Milligan], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Kathryn Milligan, 'An Invasion of Pen and Pencil": Picturing the 1875 O"Connell Centenary, Daniel O'Connell 250: Architecture, Designed Landscapes and Visual Culture Study Day, Irish Georgian Society, 12 November 2025, 2025, Conference Paper, PUBLISHED
Emily Mark-Fitzgerald and Kathryn Milligan, 'Casimir Markievicz: A Polish Artist in Bohemian Dublin (1903 " 1913)', State Apartment Galleries, Dublin Castle, 2025, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Kathryn Milligan, Social Smoking and French Fancies: The Dublin Art(s) Club, 1886 " 1898, Journal of Victorian Culture, 25, (3), 2020, p365 - 380, Journal Article, PUBLISHED

  


Award Date
Honorable Mention, Michael J. Durkan Prize for Books on Language and Culture 2021
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Annual Essay Prize 2020/21
Crookshank-Glin Dissertation Prize, TRIARC 2011
Nineteenth century art history; twentieth century art history; Irish art; cultural networks; sociability; exhibition and display histories.