Publications
Upcoming publication: ‘Historic Irish Chimney Hoods and Partitions of Wattle and Daub: Materials and Construction Techniques’, by Joe Hogan, James Howley and Claudia Kinmonth
in Barry O’Reilly ed., Technical Guidance Manual for the Conservation and Repair of Vernacular Buildings, in association with the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
(Dept of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Dublin, 2024)
in Barry O’Reilly ed., Technical Guidance Manual for the Conservation and Repair of Vernacular Buildings, in association with the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
(Dept of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Dublin, 2024)
New publication: Newly researched article by Claudia Kinmonth
‘Joined in Butter’: The material culture of Irish home butter-makers, using the dash
churn, up to the late nineteenth century (Ch. 16) in Maírtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman (eds), Irish Food History: A Companion (EUT+ Academic Press / Royal Irish Academy,
2024), launched May 2024.
Click here to read.
‘Joined in Butter’: The material culture of Irish home butter-makers, using the dash
churn, up to the late nineteenth century (Ch. 16) in Maírtín Mac Con Iomaire and Dorothy Cashman (eds), Irish Food History: A Companion (EUT+ Academic Press / Royal Irish Academy,
2024), launched May 2024.
Click here to read.
C. Kinmonth
Published 20 November 2020:
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
(Cork University Press, 2020)
575pp + 454 illus.
Click here for a preview.
This new book sold out of its first print run of 3000 copies in 3 weeks and was reprinted in February 2021 (with updates and amendments). It incorporates the findings of a lot of recent research. This book has 575 pages and 454 illustrations.
Anyone desiring a copy of Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 may order one, directly from Cork University Press:
[email protected]
Maureen Fitzgerald will organise postage. This hardback retails at €39.00 (or £35.00) plus postage. Signed copies can be ordered by contacting the author via the enquiry form on this website. Otherwise please contact the author via the enquiry form on this website. Get the book from Kenny's or your local bookshop.
Thank you.
Published 20 November 2020:
Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000
(Cork University Press, 2020)
575pp + 454 illus.
Click here for a preview.
This new book sold out of its first print run of 3000 copies in 3 weeks and was reprinted in February 2021 (with updates and amendments). It incorporates the findings of a lot of recent research. This book has 575 pages and 454 illustrations.
Anyone desiring a copy of Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000 may order one, directly from Cork University Press:
[email protected]
Maureen Fitzgerald will organise postage. This hardback retails at €39.00 (or £35.00) plus postage. Signed copies can be ordered by contacting the author via the enquiry form on this website. Otherwise please contact the author via the enquiry form on this website. Get the book from Kenny's or your local bookshop.
Thank you.
C. Kinmonth
Irish Rural Interiors in Art (Yale University Press, 2006)
286pp + xii, 252 illus.
Irish Rural Interiors in Art (Yale University Press, 2006)
286pp + xii, 252 illus.
C. Kinmonth
Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, reprinted 1995, out of print).
249pp +x 322 illus.
[Awarded: The Folklore Society’s Katherine Briggs Literary Award (1994) & The American Conference for Irish Studies Book Award for Literary Criticism (1994-5)].
Irish Country Furniture 1700-1950 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993, reprinted 1995, out of print).
249pp +x 322 illus.
[Awarded: The Folklore Society’s Katherine Briggs Literary Award (1994) & The American Conference for Irish Studies Book Award for Literary Criticism (1994-5)].
Back cover review text of the above.
Newsletters
Newsletter of The Regional Furniture Society UK, No. 74, Spring (2021)
Journal publications
‘Irish horn spoons: their design history and social significance', published in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Vol. 118 (2018), c.13,000 words, 22 illus.
‘Knowing our noggins: rare Irish wooden vessels rediscovered’, Folklife 55, No. 1 (2017), pp.46-52. 5 illus.
‘Noggins, traditional Irish Wooden Vessels’ in International Association of Agricultural Museums Newsletter/AIMA No.9 (Dec. 2016), pp. 14-17, 10 illus.
‘Noggins, traditional Irish Wooden Vessels’ in International Association of Agricultural Museums Newsletter/AIMA No.9 (Dec. 2016), pp. 14-17, 10 illus.
C. Kinmonth, 'Rags, riches and recycling: material and visual culture of the Dublin Society 1731-1781', 2019.
‘Noggins, “the nicest work of all”: traditional Irish wooden vessels for eating and drinking’, Journal of the Irish Georgian Society 18 (2016), pp. 130-51, 22 illus.
Knowing our noggins: rare Irish wooden vessels rediscovered
Article in Folk Life 55(1):46-52 · January 2017
Article in Folk Life 55(1):46-52 · January 2017
Review Essay of J. Crowley, W.J. Smyth, M. Murphy eds., Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Cork University Press, 2012), Studia Celtica 47 (2013), pp.204-209.
‘Rags and Rushes, Art and the Irish Artefact, c.1900’, Journal of Design History 14, No. 3, (2001), pp.167-186, 12 illus.
‘Survival: Irish Material Culture and Material Economy’, Folklife 38 (2000-01), pp.32-41, 5 illus.
‘Oats, Ash and Osiers Christopher Sullivan (1926-1998), súgán Chair- and Basket-Maker’,
Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society 105 (2000), 121-28, 6 illus.
‘West Cork Vernacular Furniture Makers: Comparative analysis of field studies in a coastal community (Part II)’ in Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (Vol. 103, 1998), pp.125-40, 7 illus.
‘West Cork Vernacular Furniture Makers: Comparative analysis of field studies in a coastal community (Part I)’, Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (Vol. 102, 1997), pp.121-32, 7 illus.
‘The Peppard Women; Kerry Wood-carvers of the Nineteenth Century’, Furniture History 33 (1997), pp.286-93, 13 illus.
‘Irish Vernacular Furniture: Inventories and Illustrations in Interdisciplinary Methodology’, Regional Furniture 10 (1996), pp. 1-26, 24 illus.
‘The Last Straw?’, Carloviana, Journal of the Old Carlow Society 39 (1991/92), pp.2-3, 1 illus.
‘The Role of Oral History in Researching Irish Vernacular Furniture’, Oral History 18, No.2 (1990), pp. 32, 64-65, 3 illus.
‘Irish Vernacular Furniture: Inventories and Illustrations in Interdisciplinary Methodology’, Regional Furniture 10 (1996), pp. 1-26, 24 illus.
‘The Last Straw?’, Carloviana, Journal of the Old Carlow Society 39 (1991/92), pp.2-3, 1 illus.
‘The Role of Oral History in Researching Irish Vernacular Furniture’, Oral History 18, No.2 (1990), pp. 32, 64-65, 3 illus.
Books - Contribution
C. Kinmonth contributions in B. Rooney ed., A Time and a Place, Two Centuries of Irish Social Life (Exhibition Catalogue Dublin: National Gallery of Ireland, 2007).
Catalogue Nos 5, 6, 12, 33, 34, 68, 81, 83, 140, pp. 32-5, 41, 75-8, 130-31, 139-40, 153-4, 157-8.
Contributor to W. Laffan ed., Painting Ireland, Topographical Views from Glin Castle
(Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006)
pp. 30-31, 62-63, 106-08, 126-27, 131-34, 183-84.
Contributor to W. Laffan ed., The Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1760
(Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2003).
Contributor to R. Reeners ed., A Wexford Farmstead, the Conservation of an 18th-Century Farmstead at Mayglass
(Kilkenny: The Heritage Council, 2003)
p.98, 101, 104.
Contributor to B. Lalor ed., The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2003)
244-45, 1 illus.
Contributed to W. Laffan ed., et al, The Art of a Nation: Three Centuries of Irish Painting (London: Pyms Gallery, 2002)
pp. 38-42.
Introduction to Michael S. Bird, Canadian Country Furniture 1675-1950 (Toronto: Stoddard, 1994)
pp.9-11.
Catalogue Nos 5, 6, 12, 33, 34, 68, 81, 83, 140, pp. 32-5, 41, 75-8, 130-31, 139-40, 153-4, 157-8.
Contributor to W. Laffan ed., Painting Ireland, Topographical Views from Glin Castle
(Tralee: Churchill House Press, 2006)
pp. 30-31, 62-63, 106-08, 126-27, 131-34, 183-84.
Contributor to W. Laffan ed., The Cries of Dublin, Drawn from the Life by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, 1760
(Dublin: Irish Georgian Society, 2003).
Contributor to R. Reeners ed., A Wexford Farmstead, the Conservation of an 18th-Century Farmstead at Mayglass
(Kilkenny: The Heritage Council, 2003)
p.98, 101, 104.
Contributor to B. Lalor ed., The Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Dublin: Gill & MacMillan, 2003)
244-45, 1 illus.
Contributed to W. Laffan ed., et al, The Art of a Nation: Three Centuries of Irish Painting (London: Pyms Gallery, 2002)
pp. 38-42.
Introduction to Michael S. Bird, Canadian Country Furniture 1675-1950 (Toronto: Stoddard, 1994)
pp.9-11.
Chapters Contributions
C. Kinmonth, ‘Howard Eaton Helmick Revisited: Matrimony and Material Culture through Irish Art’, in V. Krielkamp ed.
Rural Ireland the Inside Story
(University of Chicago Press, Exhibition catalogue for McMullen Museum of Art: Boston College, 2012)
pp.89-102.
C. Kinmonth, ‘Rural Life through Artists’ Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Approach’, in P. Murray ed., et al. Whipping the Herring, Survival & Celebration in Nineteenth Century Irish Art
(Exhibition catalogue for Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork: Gandon, 2006)
pp. 34-45, 92-3, 106-117, 138-143, 152-3, 156-59, 162-71, 176-85, 192-95.
C. Kinmonth, ‘Coin-freed Person Weighing Machines from 1884-1940’ Ch. 3 in C. Saumarez Smith ed., Studies in Design & Technology Working papers 1
(London: Futures, R.C.A./V.&A., 1988)
pp.91-138, 7 illus.
Rural Ireland the Inside Story
(University of Chicago Press, Exhibition catalogue for McMullen Museum of Art: Boston College, 2012)
pp.89-102.
C. Kinmonth, ‘Rural Life through Artists’ Eyes: An Interdisciplinary Approach’, in P. Murray ed., et al. Whipping the Herring, Survival & Celebration in Nineteenth Century Irish Art
(Exhibition catalogue for Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork: Gandon, 2006)
pp. 34-45, 92-3, 106-117, 138-143, 152-3, 156-59, 162-71, 176-85, 192-95.
C. Kinmonth, ‘Coin-freed Person Weighing Machines from 1884-1940’ Ch. 3 in C. Saumarez Smith ed., Studies in Design & Technology Working papers 1
(London: Futures, R.C.A./V.&A., 1988)
pp.91-138, 7 illus.
Conference Proceedings not listed above
‘Dressing the Irish Dresser: Evolution and revolution in the early 20th century farm kitchen’ in Farming & Country Life 1916 History Talks presented at Teagasc Athenry
(Carlow: Teagasc 10 & 11 June 2016)
pp.232-238, 4 illus.
‘Revolution in the farm kitchen: Modernisation & the Irish Noggin, a wooden vessel for food & drink’ for Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2016
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 31st May-1st June 2016).
http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=dgs
‘Past, Present, Future, Irish vernacular furniture as inspiration’ in The Presence of the Past: Conference Proceedings
(Letterfrack: G.M.I.T., 22-23 Oct’ 2009)
pp.54-64, 11 illus.
‘Irish Vernacular Furniture through Art’ in Miko Vasques Dias ed., Vernacular Furniture, Context, form, analysis, Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Wood and Furniture Conservation (Amsterdam: Stichting Ebenist, 14-15 Nov., 2008)
pp.16-22, 88, 7 illus.
‘From the Cradle to the Grave: Aesthetics and the Irish Vernacular Interior’ in B. Austin ed., Irish Furniture: Papers presented at Symposium of The Furniture History Society 6 Feb., 1999 at Victoria & Albert Museum
(London: Furniture History Society, 2000)
pp.33-42, 12 illus.
(Carlow: Teagasc 10 & 11 June 2016)
pp.232-238, 4 illus.
‘Revolution in the farm kitchen: Modernisation & the Irish Noggin, a wooden vessel for food & drink’ for Dublin Gastronomy Symposium 2016
(Dublin Institute of Technology, 31st May-1st June 2016).
http://arrow.dit.ie/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=dgs
‘Past, Present, Future, Irish vernacular furniture as inspiration’ in The Presence of the Past: Conference Proceedings
(Letterfrack: G.M.I.T., 22-23 Oct’ 2009)
pp.54-64, 11 illus.
‘Irish Vernacular Furniture through Art’ in Miko Vasques Dias ed., Vernacular Furniture, Context, form, analysis, Proceedings Ninth International Symposium on Wood and Furniture Conservation (Amsterdam: Stichting Ebenist, 14-15 Nov., 2008)
pp.16-22, 88, 7 illus.
‘From the Cradle to the Grave: Aesthetics and the Irish Vernacular Interior’ in B. Austin ed., Irish Furniture: Papers presented at Symposium of The Furniture History Society 6 Feb., 1999 at Victoria & Albert Museum
(London: Furniture History Society, 2000)
pp.33-42, 12 illus.