Sherra Murphy
Sherra Murphy is a Senior Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at the Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design, and Technology in Dublin, Her PhD in the School of History and Archives at University College, Dublin (2015), examined the formation of the Natural History Museum Dublin as an interlocking set of historical, scientific, social and visual frameworks. The monograph drawn from this research, ‘The First National Museum’: Dublin’s Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century, was published in October 2021 by Cork University Press. She was also the 2019 recipient of the Royal Dublin Society Library and Archives Bursary, and is conducting research in the Society’s equestrian archive, examining the origins of the Dublin Horse Show in the mid-Victorian through the lens of Irish cultural history. The first journal article in progress from that research, ‘Many attend chiefly in search of pleasure’: The Great National Horse Show at the Royal Dublin Society, 1868-80’, was published in Irish Historical Studies in the Spring of 2023. Source: Commons
