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.[1] 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.
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.[1][3][4]
Thomas Ivory, architect (Gatherum series), 1973, Gifford and Craven[10]
James Gandon: vitruvius hibernicus, 1985, A. Zwemmer[11]
The Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Co. Dublin, 1988, Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin)[10]
A Bibliography of Irish Architectural History, 1989, Irish Historical Studies (Dublin) [12]
Public Architecture in Ireland 1680–1760, 2001, Yale University Press (new haven, London) [13]
Co-written work
Contributor to: Irish Provincial Cultures in the Long Eighteenth Century: making the middle sort, 2012, Four Courts Press (Dublin)[14]
Contributor to: The Old Library, Trinity College Dublin, 1712–2012, 2012, Four Courts Press (Dublin) [14]
Contributor to: The Building Site in Eighteenth-century Ireland by Arthur Gibney, 2017, Four Courts Press (Dublin) [14]
Contributor to: The Architecture of Richard Morrison (1767-1849) and William Vitruvius Morrison (1794-1838), 1989, Irish Architectural Archive (Dublin) [15]
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.[16]
Photographs by McParland are held in the Courtauld Institute of Art's Conway Library of art and architecture.[17]
Articles
The Office of the Surveyor General in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century, 1995, The Architectural History Journal, Society of Architectural Historians [18]
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