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College of Architecture, Art and Design

Department of Architecture

Teaching areas

Art and Architctural History.

Research areas

Early Modern Architecture, Historic Urban Mapping.

Education

BA 1999 History and History of Art Trinity College Dublin Dublin Ireland.

BA, University College Dublin, 1985.

BA, Trinity College Dublin, 1995.

MA, Warwick University, 2000.

PhD, Trinity College Dublin, 2009.

Professional experience

Freelance Architectural History consultant, Dublin, Ireland, 2000–2014.

School of Architecture, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2012–2013.

History of Art Department, University College Dublin, Ireland, 2011.

Department of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, 2002–2014.

Memberships

British Archaeological Association, London, UK Dec, 1998 - Dec, 2009. Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland Jan, 2008 - present. Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative, MIT, US Aug, 2017 - present.

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2866

Dr. John Montague

Associate Professor

PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

John Montague has taught in the Departments of Engineering, and History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College, and in the Departments of History of Art and the School of Architecture at University College Dublin. He has worked as a consultant historian on numerous conservation projects in Ireland, and published a number of books and articles on Irish and British architectural history, and on 18th-century mapping. He is currently preparing a book on the history of the Wide Streets Commissioners, an 18th-century planning body in Dublin.

Publications

Montague, Dr John. "John Rocque’s mapping of Dublin: the problems and values of a mimetic art." Paper presented at the European Architectural History Network, Fourth International Meeting, Dublin, Ireland, Urban Image Group, Side Event, June 1, 2016.

Rolf Loeber, Hugh Campbell, Livia Hurley, John Montague, and Ellen Rowley, Art and Architecture of Ireland, vol. iv: Architecture, 1600–2000 (Dublin, New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2014)

John Montague, ‘”But what about the earlier city?”: John Rocque’s Exact Survey (1756) as a source for medieval Dublin’ in Medieval Dublin XIII, edited by Seán Duffy (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013), 196–245

John Montague, ‘John Ogilby’s map of London (Fag. portfolio XV, no. 1)’ in The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, 1712–2012, edited by W.E. Vaughan (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2012), 72–76

John Montague, ‘Paul Cullen, J.J. McCarthy and Holy Cross Church, Clonliffe: the politics and iconography of architectural style’ in Cardinal Paul Cullen and his world, edited by Dáire Keogh (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011), 260–76

Colm Lennon, and John Montague, John Rocque’s Dublin: a guide to the Georgian city (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2010)

John Montague, ‘The cloister: a critical commentary’ in Tintern Abbey, Co. Wexford: Cistercians and Colcloughs. Excavations 1982–2007, edited by Ann Lynch (Dublin: The Stationery Office, 2010), 182–88

John Montague, ‘Leitrim House: a reassessment’ in The eighteenth-century Dublin town house: form, function and finance, edited by Christine Casey (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2010), 197–209

John Montague, ‘The architecture of Ballymun’ in Memories, milestones and new horizons: reflections on the regeneration of Ballymun, edited by Aibhlín McCrann (Belfast: Blackstaff Press, 2008), 45-76

John Montague, ‘A shopping arcade in eighteenth-century Dublin: John Rocque and the Essex Street ‘piazzas’’ Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies 10 (2007): 224-45

John Montague, ‘The cloister arcade’ in Kells Priory, Co. Kilkenny: archaeological excavations by T. Fanning & M. Clyne, edited by Miriam Clyne (Dublin: The Stationery Office, 2007), 187-206

John Montague, ‘The cloister and bishop’s palace at Old Sarum with some thoughts on the origins and meaning of secular cathedral cloisters’ Journal of the British Archaeological Association: the medieval cloister in England and Wales 159 (2006): 48-70

Conference Presentations

John Montague, 'Shaping the city: the maps and drawings of the Wide Streets Commissioners, 1757?1849', Dublin City Library, public lecture, 2014

John Montague, ?London 1747 and Dublin 1756: John Rocque's Capital City Maps?, to Maps & Society Group, Warburg Institute, London, 2011

John Montague, ?Democracy and Idealism in 17th-century & 18th-century city maps: some London and Dublin maps considered?, to Portrait of the City International Conference, Dublin, 2010.

Awards and Honors

Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Research Fellowship, 2006–2009.

Gold Medal for Double First-Class Honours, BA, Trinity College Dublin, 1999.

Purser-Griffith Prize, Trinity College Dublin, 1993.

Other creative/research

Appeared as interviewed subject, as architectural historian, and acted as consultant on, a national tv documentary on the history of the Dublin project housing development, Ballymun. UTV Aug, 2015 - Aug, 2015

Irish Architectural Archive, Public Lecture on my recent co-edited publication of the Art & Architecture of Ireland, 2014 Jul, 2015 - Jul, 2015

Dublin City Library, Public Lecture & Walking Tour on the Wide Streets Commissioners Aug, 2015 - Aug, 2015

ICCROM-ATHAR, Regional Conservation Centre in Sharjah, Consultative Board Meeting Oct, 2015 - Oct, 2015

John Montague, ongoing research for National Monuments Service, Ireland, on the early modern history and architectural history of Dublin Castle, 2013–Ongoing

John Montague, commissioned research and ongoing preparation of monograph on the history of the Wide Streets Commissioners, for Dublin City Council Heritage Office, 2011–Ongoing

Shaffrey Associates Architects & John Montague, 'Wig-Tuck: a research project on historic brick pointing techniques', 2010

Shaffrey Associates Architects & John Montague, Conservation Plan, St Selskar's Abbey, Wexford, Ireland, 2007

Shaffrey Associates Architects & John Montague, Historical and Architectural Assessment of the 1916 Rebellion site of surrender at 16 Moore Street, 2005

Shaffrey Associates Architects & John Montague, Conservation Plan, Henrietta Street, Dublin, 2004

Shaffrey Associates Architects & John Montague, Conservation Plan, St Luke's in the Liberties, Dublin, 2003

Shaffrey Associates & John Montague, Conservation Plan, Ennis Friary, Co. Clare, Ireland, 2001