Speaker information: Brian Crowley is employed by the Office of Public Works as Curator of Collections for Kilmainham Gaol and the Pearse Museum. As well as curating exhibitions in Kilmainham and the Pearse Museum. He has published several historical essays and an illustrated biography of Patrick Pearse entitled Patrick Pearse, A Life in Pictures. Recent publications include ‘“That They Might Obtain the Shelter of a Prison”: Kilmainham Gaol and the Great Famine’ which appeared in Dublin and the Great Irish Famine, and ‘Queering Kilmainham: uncovering LGBTQ+ stories in a national shrine’ which appeared in Studica Hibernica, Vol.46
The Feeling Sites of Commemoration project is funded by the Royal Irish Academy's Commemorations Bursary. Commemorative spaces are deeply affective sites in our landscapes. The 'Feeling Sites of Commemoration' project aims to foreground the issue of emotion as central to how we understand interaction with commemoration and local sites of memory. In particular, this project aims to bring together the research perspectives and practice-based experiences of scholars, curators, site managers, designers, and guides around the topic of emotion and commemorative sites and spaces. The project forms part of the work of the Histories of Emotion in the Built Environment (HEBE) which is led by Drs Sophie Cooper, Niamh NicGhabhann Coleman, and Maja Hultman.
