Siobhán Doyle, GradCAM PhD Researcher, publishes the article ‘The Bullet in the Brick: The Materiality of Conflict in Museum Objects’ in the March 2019 issue of Arms and Armour.

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Siobhán Doyle, GradCAM PhD Researcher, publishes the article ‘The Bullet in the Brick: The Materiality of Conflict in Museum Objects’ in the March 2019 issue of Arms and Armour.

Through a study of the display of a brick in which is embedded a bullet that is said to have passed through the body of Francis Sheehy Skeffington when he was executed by firing squad during the Easter Rising in Dublin in 1916, the article explores the historical configuration of the brick and analyses its public display in the National Museum of Ireland.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17416124.2019.1581488

Siobhán is a final year PhD Researcher at the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) in the School of Creative Arts at Technological University Dublin and received the Dean of the College of Arts and Tourism scholarship award in March 2016. Siobhán’s doctoral research concerns the material and visual culture of modern Ireland with particular focus upon the role of exhibition display in commemoration and representations of death. Siobhán’s research has been published by Four Courts Press and the European Remembrance and Solidarity Network.