Dr Rachel Finnegan was a Lecturer in Tourism & Heritage Studies in the School of Humanities, Waterford Institute of Technology from 1994 to 2014. During this time, she was Programme Leader for the MA in Arts & Heritage Management in the Department of Creative & Performing Arts. She is now a freelance academic editor and proofreader. For more information about this see: http://irishacademicediting.ie
Qualifications
BA Hons in Classics from Trinity College Dublin (1986)
PhD in Classics from NUI Maynooth (1991)
Certificate in Irish Archaeology from UCC (1996)
Scholarships
Gustav Sachs Memorial Student at the British School of Archaeology at Athens (1989-90)
MacMillan-Rodewald Student at the British School of Archaeology at Athens (1990-91)
Publications
Books
Women in Aristophanes (Hakkert Press, Amsterdam, 1995)
A Tour in Ireland in 1775: Richard Twiss, with Related Poetical Works, UCD Press, Classics in Irish History Series (2008)
The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles, Volume 1: Letters from the Continent, 1733-34 (Kilkenny, 2011)
The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles, Volume 2: Letters from the Continent, 1736-37 (Kilkenny, 2012)
The Grand Tour Correspondence of Richard Pococke & Jeremiah Milles, Volume 3: Letters from the East, 1737-41 (Kilkenny, 2013)
New Book
English Explorers in the East (1738-1745): The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke(Brill, Leiden, 2019)
Articles
"The Classical Taste of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough”, in Irish Architectural & Decorative Arts: The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. VIII (2005) 12-43
“The Classical Library of William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough”, in Hermathena (November, 2006) 149-87
"’An Extremely Cunning Fellow', Copley’s Memorial Engraving to William Ponsonby, 2nd Earl of Bessborough, in Print Quarterly (March, 2007) 3-11
“Bishop Pococke's Improvements to St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny”, in Irish Architectural & Decorative Arts: The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, Vol. XI (2008) 12-54
“Manuscripts, Mummies & Minutes Books: the Case of Sandwich & Pococke in the East”, in Lynda Mulvin (Ed.), A Culture of Translation: British & Irish Scholarship in the Gennadius Library (1740-1780) Athens (2012) 47-60
"Thomas Milles Bishop of Waterford and Lismore", in Decies, Journal of the Waterford Archaeological & Historical Society (No. 69, 2013) 53-80
"The Travels and Curious Collections of Richard Pococke, Bishop of Meath", in Journal of the History of Collections, Volume 27, Number 1 (Oxford University Press, 2015) 33-48.
Two articles on Richard Pococke’s Eastern Travels, in Salvador Ryan (ed.), Treasures of Irish Christianity, Volume 3: To the Ends of the Earth (Veritas, Dublin, 2015) 83-88
"Meekness and Ambition, or, the Hypocrite Detected: A Satirical Poem about Richard Pococke, Bishop of Ossory", in Old Kilkenny Review (Kilkenny, 2015) 72-84.
"Frederick, 3rd Earl of Bessborough, Collector and Artist (1758-1844)", in Irish Architectural & Decorative Arts: The Journal of the Irish Georgian Society (2016) 64-83.
