2017
The Castletown Foundation are delighted to announce that the inaugural Kevin B Nowlan scholarship has been awarded jointly to Mr Kyle Leyden (Courthald Institute) and Laura McKenna (Trinity College Dublin)
Their respective projects are:
Kyle Leyden: “The Epitome of the Kingdom?” The Politics of “Fine Building” and the Fashioning of Irish National Identity, 1719-1782.
Laura McKenna: An analysis of the links between the silk damask wallpaper in Castletown House’s ‘Red Drawing Room’ and similar examples in Italian palazzi.
We look forward to seeing the results of their research.
2019
The Castletown Foundation are delighted to announce that the Kevin B Nowlan scholarship has been awarded to Dr Cora McDonagh (Maynooth University)
Her projects is Castletown House Art Collection and the Dublin Loan Exhibitions, 1829 to 1907
2021
The Castletown Foundation are delighted to announce that the Kevin B Nowlan scholarship has been awarded to Deirdre Cullen
Her project is The Long Gallery of Castletown: a rare example of the neoclassical taste for painted rooms all’antica and an expression of the intellectual and cultural worlds of Ireland’s eighteenth-century elite
2025
The Castletown Foundation are delighted to announce that the Kevin B Nowlan scholarship has been jointly awarded to Prof. Sean Moore and Mr Robert O’Byrne. Their respective projects are:
Sean Moore, Did Secret Service Funds Help Build Castletown House as they did Blenheim Palace? The Death of Speaker William Conolly (1662-1729) and the Dawning of a New Catholic Era
Robert O’Byrne, Castletown and the Clergy: Conolly’s House and its Influence on Church of Ireland Episcopacy
