Conor Lucey BA, MA, PhD is the president of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art History and Cultural Policy, University College Dublin. His publications include The Stapleton Collection: designs for the Irish neoclassical interior (2007), Decorative Plasterwork in Ireland and Europe: ornament and the early modern interior (2012), and articles in The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, The Burlington Magazine, and Architectural History. His new book, Building Reputations: Architecture and the Artisan, 1750-1830, is forthcoming from Manchester University Press.