Talks
I regularly prepare illustrated talks ranging from academic presentations to those tailored for a general audience.
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Claudia participated in an afternoon of song, stories and sustainability talk in collaboration with the Cork Folklore Project, The Cork Traveller Women's Network and UCC's Environmental Research Institute.
The event included performances by traditional singer Thomas McCarthy, stories from Cork locals and conversations with sustainability champions.
Triskel Arts Centre , Sat. 10th Feb 2024, 2- 4 PM.
The event included performances by traditional singer Thomas McCarthy, stories from Cork locals and conversations with sustainability champions.
Triskel Arts Centre , Sat. 10th Feb 2024, 2- 4 PM.

Conference paper by Claudia Kinmonth entitled 'Inside Irish vernacular dwelling houses; authentic interiors, built-in storage, partitions, chimney hoods and ceilings, c.1700-1900’.
As part of IPMAG (Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group) annual conference, themed ‘Beautiful Burdens’ The Archaeology of Irish Vernacular Buildings.
Anner Hotel, Thurles, on 10 Feb 2024 c.9.15-10am.
Claudia participated in panel discussion alongside artist Peter Sheehan based on the theme ‘walking backwards into the future’ during Design Week hosted by Design & Craft Council Ireland.
Kilruddery House & Gardens, Wed. 15 Nov., 2023
Kilruddery House & Gardens, Wed. 15 Nov., 2023
Illustrated lecture 'Understanding and Conserving Authentic Furniture and Interiors in Kerry's Farmouses' followed by an object based discussion.
Quille's Farmhouse, Muckross Traditional Farms, Co. Kerry: 1pm Saturday 26 Aug, 2023.
As part of the Kingdom of Skills: traditional building skills in action exhibition and talks.
Quille's Farmhouse, Muckross Traditional Farms, Co. Kerry: 1pm Saturday 26 Aug, 2023.
As part of the Kingdom of Skills: traditional building skills in action exhibition and talks.

'For Family and Stranger': Irish objects of hospitality and communality before 1850
4 February 2023 for IPMAG conference/ Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group at Birr, Co. Offaly. 9:40-10:00am at the County Arms Hotel, Birr.
4 February 2023 for IPMAG conference/ Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group at Birr, Co. Offaly. 9:40-10:00am at the County Arms Hotel, Birr.
Illustrated lecture for WHAS / Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society, Waterford, County Waterford: 8-9pm 25 Nov 2022.
Click here for more info on Kinmonth's lecture.
Waterford's unusually rich and decorative legacy of vernacular furniture.
Admission for non members €5 Further details from James Eogan: [email protected]
Click here to view full programme.
Click here for more info on Kinmonth's lecture.
Waterford's unusually rich and decorative legacy of vernacular furniture.
Admission for non members €5 Further details from James Eogan: [email protected]
Click here to view full programme.
Events at Crawford Art Gallery, Cork city 20 & 21st Oct.
Thursday 20th 6.30-7.30pm: Gallery Tour of their current exhibition 'Meat and Potatoes'
Friday 21st 12.30-1.30: Illustrated lecture: 'Joining in butter to fill a firkin' how did Irish women make butter before c.1900?'
Thursday 20th 6.30-7.30pm: Gallery Tour of their current exhibition 'Meat and Potatoes'
Friday 21st 12.30-1.30: Illustrated lecture: 'Joining in butter to fill a firkin' how did Irish women make butter before c.1900?'

Live illustrated 'little' talk by Claudia: 'Privacy & Communality in one- and two-roomed Irish homes in the long Eighteenth century'.
Part of Open House Dublin, four short 10 minute illustrated talks hosted by Prof Conor Lucey at Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland/Helen Roe Lecture theatre, Dublin 2. Featuring 4 of the authors who have contributed to the forthcoming book Conor Lucey ed., House and Home in Georgian Ireland - Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (UCD/Four Courts Press, published for Nov., 2022)
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/house-and-home-in-georgian-ireland/
Sat 15 Oct
Part of Open House Dublin, four short 10 minute illustrated talks hosted by Prof Conor Lucey at Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland/Helen Roe Lecture theatre, Dublin 2. Featuring 4 of the authors who have contributed to the forthcoming book Conor Lucey ed., House and Home in Georgian Ireland - Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life (UCD/Four Courts Press, published for Nov., 2022)
https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/house-and-home-in-georgian-ireland/
Sat 15 Oct
Online event: 'The Design Historian as detective; construction, variation and late evolution' as part of 'Our Irish Chair: Good Design Never Grows Old' Symposium, 19 Feb, 2022, 14:30-16:30.
This event coincided with the current exhibition 'Our Irish Chair: Tradition Revisited' at Country Life, Turlough Park.
This event coincided with the current exhibition 'Our Irish Chair: Tradition Revisited' at Country Life, Turlough Park.

TOULOUSE CONFERENCE:
'Irish Victorian Interiors interpreted through Art', Annual Conference of the Société d'Etudes Victoriennes et Eduoardiennes, hosted by the University of Toulouse, 27-28 Jan, 2022. Kinmonth's paper was titled 'But is it Irish? Irish genre painting: an interdisciplinary methodology’.
Conference held on Zoom. Proceedings may be published.
'Irish Victorian Interiors interpreted through Art', Annual Conference of the Société d'Etudes Victoriennes et Eduoardiennes, hosted by the University of Toulouse, 27-28 Jan, 2022. Kinmonth's paper was titled 'But is it Irish? Irish genre painting: an interdisciplinary methodology’.
Conference held on Zoom. Proceedings may be published.

'Built-in Furniture in Ireland's Vernacular Buildings: worth more than the sum of its parts' for the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, Ireland, Sept 29, 2021.
Traditional Skills and Crafts event at Muckross house, Co. Kerry, Friday 24th Sept, 2021.
As part of the Kerry Building Conservation Project for Architecture Kerry 2021, Kerry County Council with the support of the Trustees of Muckross House, hosted a Traditional Skills and Crafts event at Muckross.
This event was funded by the Heritage Council and supported by Kerry County Council and the Trustees of Muckross House.
As part of the Kerry Building Conservation Project for Architecture Kerry 2021, Kerry County Council with the support of the Trustees of Muckross House, hosted a Traditional Skills and Crafts event at Muckross.
This event was funded by the Heritage Council and supported by Kerry County Council and the Trustees of Muckross House.

'Post publication discoveries; readers' responses to Irish country furniture and furnishings 1700-2000', an illustrated talk for the the Society for Folklife Studies, Annual Conference hosted by National University of Ireland Galway, Saturday Sept 11th, 2021.

Claudia Kinmonth in conversation with milking stool designers Adrian Duyn and Tricia Harris in collaboration with Design POP, a panel discussion held in the Secret Garden at Nano Nagle Place, Cork, Sunday 29 Aug, 2021.
Adrian Duyn of Joop Duyn & Sons, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, is an antique furniture conservator and designer. He creates unique, bespoke furniture alongside other interior design and architectural projects. Tricia Harris, of Studio Harris in Kerry, is a contemporary Irish furniture designer who works with skilled craftspeople to create distinctive, long-lasting pieces.
Adrian Duyn of Joop Duyn & Sons, Kenmare, Co. Kerry, is an antique furniture conservator and designer. He creates unique, bespoke furniture alongside other interior design and architectural projects. Tricia Harris, of Studio Harris in Kerry, is a contemporary Irish furniture designer who works with skilled craftspeople to create distinctive, long-lasting pieces.

'Communality versus privacy: arrangements of personal space in rural domestic
households to 1830' by Dr. Claudia Kinmonth.
Kinmonth's paper was given as part of a conference held remotely by the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin titled 'Species of Domestic Spaces: House and Home in Eighteenth-Century Ireland'.
This conference was held via Eventbrite on June 18, 2021.
Conference proceedings now forthcoming in 2022 with Four Courts Press: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/house-and-home-in-georgian-ireland/
households to 1830' by Dr. Claudia Kinmonth.
Kinmonth's paper was given as part of a conference held remotely by the Humanities Institute at University College Dublin titled 'Species of Domestic Spaces: House and Home in Eighteenth-Century Ireland'.
This conference was held via Eventbrite on June 18, 2021.
Conference proceedings now forthcoming in 2022 with Four Courts Press: https://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2022/house-and-home-in-georgian-ireland/

Furniture History Society, May 26th, 2021 at 18:00 BST, via Zoom.
The Furniture History Society hosted a series of Sunday-evening lectures on all aspects of furniture history with a number of guest speakers.
The FHS presented Claudia's film from the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Library Speaker Series in which introduces the main themes from her latest book: Irish Country House Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000. A Q&A followed the film showing.
The Furniture History Society hosted a series of Sunday-evening lectures on all aspects of furniture history with a number of guest speakers.
The FHS presented Claudia's film from the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) Library Speaker Series in which introduces the main themes from her latest book: Irish Country House Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000. A Q&A followed the film showing.

Presentation: 'Irish country furniture and furnishings 1700-2000, some stories behind the objects', for the Irish Georgian Society, Summer 2021 Lecture Series. Tuesday May 4, 2021.
Thank you to all those who registered to watch my latest presentation, helping raise over €650 euro for IGS.
Thank you to all those who registered to watch my latest presentation, helping raise over €650 euro for IGS.
Presentation by Kinmonth on her research methodology into Irish Food & Material Culture, 1700-2000'
for UCC postgraduate students exclusively: Saturday 17 April, 2021.
for UCC postgraduate students exclusively: Saturday 17 April, 2021.
'Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000: Revisiting, Revising, Reprinting',
by Kinmonth for the Irish Studies Seminar Series, at Queen's University Belfast, Monday 15 March 2021, 16:30-18:00 GMT (Online Event)
This free online seminar was hosted by Queen's University Belfast as part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Kinmonth discussed her new book, Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000, published by Cork University Press in November 2020. This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture.
This seminar was delivered online via Microsoft Teams with over 180 people in attendance.
by Kinmonth for the Irish Studies Seminar Series, at Queen's University Belfast, Monday 15 March 2021, 16:30-18:00 GMT (Online Event)
This free online seminar was hosted by Queen's University Belfast as part of the Irish Studies Seminar Series. Kinmonth discussed her new book, Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000, published by Cork University Press in November 2020. This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland's cultural history as to its history of furniture.
This seminar was delivered online via Microsoft Teams with over 180 people in attendance.

Illustrated presentation of research for the Royal Dublin Society’s Library & Archives 2018 Bursary:
‘Rags, Riches & Recycling; the Dublin Society’s encouragement of Art & Artefacts, 1731-1781’
At 7.30pm, Thursday 23 Jan, 2020, for The Royal Society of Antiquaries, Helen Roe Theatre, Society House, 63 Merrion Square S., Dublin 2, DO2 X338. Associated article published in Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies XXI.
‘Rags, Riches & Recycling; the Dublin Society’s encouragement of Art & Artefacts, 1731-1781’
At 7.30pm, Thursday 23 Jan, 2020, for The Royal Society of Antiquaries, Helen Roe Theatre, Society House, 63 Merrion Square S., Dublin 2, DO2 X338. Associated article published in Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies XXI.

IRISH COUNTRY FURNITURE 1700-2000,
RECYCLING OUR PAST
Thursday, 20.30, 24.10.19, Parish Centre, Clonakilty
Duchas Lecture Series
This highly illustrated talk explored life in the Irish farmhouse. Kinmonth brought objects for handling, discussion, and observation including flour bags, crocks, cowhorn spoons and even some small seats. The audience was also invited to bring along relevant old objects for opinions (but not valuation). This included the option to bring photos of larger items if necessary.
RECYCLING OUR PAST
Thursday, 20.30, 24.10.19, Parish Centre, Clonakilty
Duchas Lecture Series
This highly illustrated talk explored life in the Irish farmhouse. Kinmonth brought objects for handling, discussion, and observation including flour bags, crocks, cowhorn spoons and even some small seats. The audience was also invited to bring along relevant old objects for opinions (but not valuation). This included the option to bring photos of larger items if necessary.

IRISH COUNTRY FURNITURE 1700-2000, RECYCLING OUR PAST
Sunday, 14.00, 20.08.19, Heritage Lecture Theatre
As part of Heritage Week and the theme of ‘Pass Times and Past Times’, Nano Nagle Place presented a talk by Claudia Kinmonth MRIA
https://nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/heritage-week-event-irish-country-furniture-1700-2000-recycling-our-past-dr-claudia-kinmonth/
Sunday, 14.00, 20.08.19, Heritage Lecture Theatre
As part of Heritage Week and the theme of ‘Pass Times and Past Times’, Nano Nagle Place presented a talk by Claudia Kinmonth MRIA
https://nanonagleplace.ie/nanoevents/heritage-week-event-irish-country-furniture-1700-2000-recycling-our-past-dr-claudia-kinmonth/

'Making In' Seminar
Joseph Walsh Studio, Cork
15 Sept2018
Claudia Kinmonth gave the opening address. A design and art historian, and an expert on Irish country furniture, she introduced two of the themes which ran through the seminar. Place: having come to live in West Cork some years ago, she spoke joyously about her love for its landscape and seascape. Traditional craftsmanship: she chose to tell us about the almost extinct noggin, a small wooden vessel with a stave handle which was widely used for drinking and eating until the beginning of the last century.
Joseph Walsh Studio, Cork
15 Sept2018
Claudia Kinmonth gave the opening address. A design and art historian, and an expert on Irish country furniture, she introduced two of the themes which ran through the seminar. Place: having come to live in West Cork some years ago, she spoke joyously about her love for its landscape and seascape. Traditional craftsmanship: she chose to tell us about the almost extinct noggin, a small wooden vessel with a stave handle which was widely used for drinking and eating until the beginning of the last century.
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