Visual Archive of Gothic Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland
About
Gothic Past is an open-access resource for the study of medieval Irish architecture and sculpture. It is part of a research project in the Department of History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin and is funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) ...more
Featured Collection
Gothic Past in the Media
Links to news reports and radio programmes featuring Gothic Past
Featured Exhibit
Edwin Rae and Irish Tomb Sculpture
This exhibition looks at Edwin Rae's contribution to the study of Irish tomb sculpture by highlighting the many images of Irish late medieval tombs in his image collection.
Tag Cloud
- Animal sculpture
- Architectural
- Architecture
- Capitals (Architecture)
- County Kilkenny
- Decoration and ornament
- Ecclesiastical architecture
- Effigies
- Funerary monuments
- Inscriptions
- Ireland
- Ireland)
- Medieval - Ireland
- Saints
- Sepulchral monuments
- Sepulchral slabs
- Stone Carving
- Tombs
- figure sculpture
- wild atlantic way
Recent Items
Gothic Past on the History Matters radio show on 92.5 Phoenix FM Community Radio for Dublin 15
Dr Brian Hughes talks to Caroline McGee and Danielle O'Donovan about making the Gothic Past web resource. First broadcast on December 31, 2014 on the 'History Matters' radio programme on… ...more
Gowran Church, Gowran, County Kilkenny - Effigy of a Butler Knight, Tomb Surround
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny: detail of head of saint on W. end of N. side of tomb of single knight ...more
Gowran Church, Gowran, County Kilkenny - Effigy of a Butler Knight, Tomb Surround
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny: detail of head of saint from W. end of N. side of tomb of single knight (multiple images on file) ...more