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1 Zara Power PhD Student [email protected] Education Present Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - The Department of History, University of Limerick Doctoral thesis entitled ‘A history of jewellers and their business in eighteenth-century Ireland: a study in material culture’. 2008-2009 MPhil in Irish Art History - Trinity College Dublin Thesis entitled: The Tervoe convert set: The Oxford Movement and antiquarianism in nineteenth-century Limerick. 2004–2008 BA English & History - University of Limerick Awarded first class honours degree. Awarded first class honours for final dissertation: An examination of Evangelical attitudes to ‘fallen women’ in nineteenth-century Dublin. Research Interests Early modern Ireland, namely the social and cultural aspects of eighteenth-century Ireland. Zara has a particular interest in the topic of material culture and exploring innovative methodologies, namely the use of objects as evidence. This methodological approach reflects that of Peter Burke who notes that ‘historians, whose paradigm of evidence is what they call ‘the document’ still have to learn how to read other kinds of material’. Zara is particularly interested in the history of goldsmithing from antiquity to the eighteenth-century; her M.Phil dissertation focused on an examination of medieval reliquaries. Her current research examines the history of jewellery in eighteenth-century Ireland. Her research encapsulates such diverse topics as the production and consumption of material goods, fashion, objects and space, and the Georgians. Having worked in numerous museums, including the National Museum of Ireland and the Hunt Museum, she is also interested in the care and management of museum collections. Tutor Summer School, Visual culture in Ireland 1400-1950, namely Pre-ascendancy architecture and material culture 1400-1880; Europe, Enlightenment and Revolution 1688-1815; Imperialism and Decolonisation.
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Zara Power PhD Student [email protected] Education
Present Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) - The Department of History, University of Limerick
Doctoral thesis entitled ‘A history of jewellers and their business in eighteenth-century Ireland: a study in material culture’.
2008-2009 MPhil in Irish Art History - Trinity College Dublin
Thesis entitled: The Tervoe convert set: The Oxford Movement and antiquarianism in nineteenth-century Limerick.
2004–2008 BA English & History - University of Limerick
Awarded first class honours degree. Awarded first class honours for final dissertation:
An examination of Evangelical attitudes to ‘fallen women’ in nineteenth-century Dublin. Research Interests
Early modern Ireland, namely the social and cultural aspects of eighteenth-century Ireland. Zara has a particular interest in the topic of material culture and exploring innovative methodologies, namely the use of objects as evidence. This methodological approach reflects that of Peter Burke who notes that ‘historians, whose paradigm of evidence is what they call ‘the document’ still have to learn how to read other kinds of material’. Zara is particularly interested in the history of goldsmithing from antiquity to the eighteenth-century; her M.Phil dissertation focused on an examination of medieval reliquaries. Her current research examines the history of jewellery in eighteenth-century Ireland. Her research encapsulates such diverse topics as the production and consumption of material goods, fashion, objects and space, and the Georgians. Having worked in numerous museums, including the National Museum of Ireland and the Hunt Museum, she is also interested in the care and management of museum collections.
Tutor
Summer School, Visual culture in Ireland 1400-1950, namely Pre-ascendancy architecture and material culture 1400-1880; Europe, Enlightenment and Revolution 1688-1815; Imperialism and Decolonisation.
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Guest Lecturer Early Modern Ireland.
Public Lectures: 2014: A history of the Pearl, Royal Dublin Society. 2015: Till death do us part, death and devotion in the Georgian era, the cult of mourning jewellery, Russborough House. 2015: All that glitters, a history of jewellers and gems in Georgian, Ireland, The Irish Georgian Society. Publications:
‘An Examination of Shelta and its Historical Functions’ in Michael OhAodha (ed.), Migrants and Cultural Memory: The Representation of Cultural Difference (Cambridge, 2009).
Awards: In 2014 Zara was awarded an Irish Resarch Council Scholarship for her work on jewellers in eighteenth-century Ireland. She was also awarded the 2014 Desmond Guinness Scholarship by the Irish Georgian Society.
