GLOBAL IRISH STUDIES
Presents
A Lecture by a Leading Irish Architect and Architectural Historian
MERLO KELLY
Grand Ambitions - The Development of Dublin City North in the 18th Century
and its Implications for Today
Merlo Kelly Architect, B.Arch MUBC MRIAI, is a practicing architect with Lotts Architecture & Urbanism and has taught in the School of Architecture, University College Dublin since 2006. She has won numerous awards for her scholarly achievements, including the 2012 ICOMOS Rachel MacRory Memorial Award and a 2013 Arts Council architectural bursary for an investigation of the Roman domus. Recent collaborative research projects include a study of twentieth-century architecture in Dublin, culminating in More than Concrete Blocks vols.1&2 (2016/2018), and the NIAH architectural inventory of Dublin city. Merlo has spoken and written widely on Dublin’s architectural history.
Accommodation requests related to a disability should be made by Wednesday, May 2, 2018 to the Global Irish Studies program at globalirishstudies@georgetown.edu A good faith effort will be made to fulfill requests made after Wed., May 2.
