CONTRIBUTORS TO THE CHRIST CHURCH HISTORY PROJECT
Dr Barra Boydell is a senior lecturer in music at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth . He has edited Music at Christ Church before 1800: documents and selected anthems (Dublin, 1998) and, with the cathedral choir and director of music, has produced the CD Sing O ye heavens: historic anthems from Christ Church cathedral, Dublin, CCD1 (Dublin, 1999). In 1996, he delivered the Joe Coady Memorial Lecture in the cathedral entitled 'Musical Tadpoles: music in Christ Church cathedral' and published by the Friends. He has just published 'Now that the King hath readvanced the Crown' in Early Music (May 2000).
Dr Alan J. Fletcher lectures in old and middle English at University College, Dublin and is the author of several studies of late medieval literature and culture in the British Isles. He recently published Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland (2000) and is currently editing a collection of essays on the history of preaching in Ireland with Raymond Gillespie. With Professor James Lydon, he wrote a new introduction to the Account roll of the priory of the Holy Trinity, Dublin 1337-1346, edited by James Mills (Dublin, 1996). He was also a contributor to a recent Friends sponsored lunchtime lecture on 'Irish Cathedrals in the Middle Ages' entitled 'Liturgy for the Learned & Lewd at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Dublin'.
Dr Raymond Gillespie is a senior lecturer in the Modern History at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth, a former visiting fellow of All Souls College, Oxford and is editor of the Christ Church documents series. He is author, editor or contributor to over twenty books which most recently include Bray: Irish historic towns atlas, 9 (Dublin, 1998); with Myrtle Hill, Doing Irish local history: pursuit and practice (Belfast, 1998) and Devoted people: belief and religion in early modern Ireland (Manchester, 1997).
Mr Stuart Kinsella is a postgraduate student in the History of Art department at Trinity College, Dublin working on the architectural history of the cathedral from 1500-1700. He completed an M.Phil. in the department of medieval history at Trinity College in 1997 and has been secretary to the history contributors since 1994.
Professor James Lydon formerly Lecky Professor of History at Trinity College, Dublin, is a Fellow Emeritus of the College and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. He is author of The Lordship of Ireland in the Middle Ages and The Making of Ireland: From Ancient Times to the Present.
Dr Kenneth Milne is the historiographer of the Church of Ireland and was a co-editor of Principal and Pragmatism: towards a new history of the Church of Ireland (Dublin, 1995). He is Chairperson of the Irish Society for Archives and has been the general editor of Christ Church Cathedral Dublin: A History.
Dr Raymond Refaussé was appointed as the Church of Ireland's first archivist in 1981 and since 1984 has been Librarian and Archivist in the Representative Church Body Library. He has been co-editor of the Directory of Irish Archives, the Directory of Historic Dublin Guilds, the Registers of Christ Church Cathedral and the Christ Church Deeds.
Professor Roger Stalley is Professor of the History of Art at Trinity College, Dublin. He is the author of Architecture and Sculpture in Ireland 1150-1350 (1971), The Cistercian Monasteries of Ireland (1987), Irish High Crosses (1991), Ireland and Europe in the Middle Ages (1993) and Early Medieval Architecture (1999). He has published over 50 articles on various aspects of medieval sculpture and architecture. He is a member of the Royal Irish Academy and an Honorary Member of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland.

Prof. Geoffrey Hand, former Barber Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Birmingham, gave invaluable assistance at an early stage of the project.


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