Name: Professor Tom Dunne
Position: Emeritus Professor, History
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Biography
Tom Dunne is Professor Emeritus of History. At various times he has been Dean of the Faculty of Arts, member of UCC's Governing Body, and member of the Senate of the National University of Ireland. He was co-founder and co-editor of the Irish Review, as well as Publisher at Cork University Press. He has curated a number of major exhibitions at the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Research Interests & Publications
Prof. Dunne has published widely on Irish cultural and political history in the early modern and modern periods. His book Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798
(2004) won the Ewart Biggs Prize.
His publications on Irish art history include:
- 'One of the tests of national character: Britishness and Irishness in paintings by Barry and Maclise', in B. Stewart (ed.), Hearts and Minds: Irish Culture and Society under the Union (Gerards Cross, 2002);
- 'Towards a National Art?: George Petrie's two versions of the last circuit of pilgrims at Clonmacnoise', in P. Murray (ed.), George Petrie (1790-1866): the Re-discovery of Ireland's Past (Crawford Art Gallery, 2004);
- James Barry, 1741-1806: the Great Historical Painter (Crawford Art Gallery, 2005);
- ‘The Dark side of the Irish Landscape: depictions of the Irish Poor in Irish landscape art’, in P. Murray, (ed.), Whipping the Herring: Survival and Celebration in Nineteenth Century Irish Art (Crawford Art Gallery, 2006);
- ‘Chivalry, the Harp and Maclise’s contribution to the creation of National Identity’, in P. Murray (ed.), Daniel Maclise, 1806-1870 (Crawford Art Gallery, 2008);
- ‘Sensibility and the Sublime in the Storm Paintings of Thomas Roberts’, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, xi, 2010;
- James Barry, 1741-1806: History Painter (Ashgate, 2010) (ed. with W. L. Pressly).
