Edward McParland explained

Edward McParland
Nationality:	Irish
Main Interests:	Architectural history

Edward Joseph McParland is an Irish architectural historian and author. He was elected as Pro-Chancellor of University of Dublin, Trinity College in 2013, and continues to give lectures after his retirement in 2008. McParland is the co-founder of the Irish Architectural Archive which was established in 1976, and he has contributed extensively to architectural conservation in Ireland.

Education

McParland attended Belvedere College before completing an MSc in mathematics at University College Dublin. He attended Christ's College, Cambridge to study Fine Arts starting in 1965, and was elected a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge in 1971, before being awarded his PhD in 1975.^[1]

Career

McParland's first post at Trinity College Dublin was as lecturer in the History of Art Department in 1973. He was elected Fellow in 1984, and appointed to the role of Pro-Chancellor in 2013, a post which he still holds in retirement.^{[2] [3]}

McParland founded the National Trust Archive (NTA) with Nicholas Robinson in 1976, and he holds the position of board member and Company Secretary.^{[4] [5]} He co-founded the Irish Landmark Trust, and serves on the committee of the Alfred Beit Foundation and the Irish Georgian Foundation.^[6]

He served as editor of the Carlovian, the journal of the Carlow Historical & Archaeological Society.

In 2016, McParland gave a talk on Sir Thomas Robinson who founded the Armagh Robinson Library.^[7]

McParland remains active in scholarly societies, including a role as vice-president of the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy.^[8]

Bibliography

Books

• Thomas Ivory, architect (Gatherum series), 1973, Gifford and Craven^[9]
• James Gandon: vitruvius hibernicus, 1985, A. Zwemmer^[10]
• The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Co. Dublin, 1988, Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin)
• A Bibliography of Irish Architectural History, 1989, Irish Historical Studies (Dublin) ^[11]
• Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760, 2001, Yale University Press (new haven, London) ^[12]

Co-written work

• Contributor to: Irish Provincial Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century: making the middle sort, 2012, Four Courts Press (Dublin)^[13]
• Contributor to: The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, 1712–2012, 2012, Four Courts Press (Dublin)
• Contributor to: The Building Site in Eighteenth-century Ireland by Arthur Gibney, 2017, Four Courts Press (Dublin)
• Contributor to: The Architecture of Richard Morrison (1767-1849) and William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838), 1989, Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin) ^[14]

Databases and archives

McParland's research on "relating to the architecture of Ireland from the late seventeenth to the earl nineteenth century" is a principal source for entries in the Dictionary of Irish Architects.^[15]

Photographs by McParland are held in the Courtauld Institute of Art's Conway Library of art and architecture.^[16]

Articles

• The Office of the Surveyor General in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 1995, The Architectural History Journal, Society of Architectural Historians ^[17]
• Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760, 2002, The British journal for eighteenth-century studies, Vol 25, Part 2, 2002, 297, Voltaire Foundation
• Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760, 2002, Studies: an Irish quarterly review of letters, philosophy, and science. Vol 91, ISSU 361, 2002, 79–82, Irish Jesuits
• McParland wrote the obituary for his colleague Anne Crookshank in the Burlington Magazine in 2017.^[18]

Awards and recognition

In recognition of McParland's contributions to scholarship in Irish architecture, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, and made an Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Ulster Architects.  He is a retired Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.^[19]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Prochancellor TCD. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20141231180958/https://www.tcd.ie/chancellor/prochancellor/current/mcparland.php . 31 December 2014 .
2. Web site: 2015-10-19. Edward Joseph McParland. 2020-08-18. Royal Irish Academy. Irish.
3. Web site: 5 March 2013. Inauguration of Dr Edward McParland as Pro-Chancellor.
4. Web site: Origins and Development – Irish Architectural Archive. 2020-08-17. en-GB.
5. Web site: Irish Georgian Society Conservation Awards Judges. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20171030050958/http://www.igs.ie/education/awards/about-the-awards . 30 October 2017 .
6. News: Turning the old and odd into self-sustaining assets. 2020-08-18. The Irish Times. en.
7. Web site: Conlin. Carol. 2016-06-28. Talk by Edward McParland on Thomas Robinson. 2020-08-17. Armagh Robinson Library & No 5. en-US.
8. Web site: Who We Are. 2020-08-18. UAH. en.
9. Web site: Edward McParland. 2020-08-17. www.amazon.co.uk. en-gb.
10. Web site: James Gandon Vitruvius Hibernicus by Mcparland - AbeBooks. 2020-08-17. www.abebooks.co.uk. en-GB.
11. McParland. Edward. 1988. A Bibliography of Irish Architectural History. Irish Historical Studies. 26. 102. 161–212. 10.1017/S0021121400009640. 30008137. 163641025 . 0021-1214.
12. Web site: Public Architecture in Ireland, 1680–1760 Yale University Press. 2020-08-17. yalebooks.yale.edu.
13. Web site: Four Courts Press Search Results. 2020-08-17. www.fourcourtspress.ie.
14. Web site: Book Review: The Architecture of Richard Morrison (1767-1849) and William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838). 2020-08-17. www.irishartsreview.com. 3 May 2017 . en-US.
15. Web site: Dictionary of Irish Architects Sources Irish Architectural Archive. 2020-08-18. www.dia.ie.
16. Web site: 2020-06-30. Who made the Conway Library?. 2020-08-18. Digital Media. 3 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200703211341/http://blog.courtauld.ac.uk/digitalmedia/2020/06/30/who-made-the-conway-library/. dead.
17. McParland. Edward. 1995. The Office of the Surveyor General in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century. Architectural History. 38. 91–101. 10.2307/1568623. 1568623. 195025920 . 0066-622X.
18. Web site: The Burlington Magazine. 2020-08-17. www.burlington.org.uk.
19. Web site: Provost and President, TCD.