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Authors’ biographies 16
Astonishing automata: staging spectacle in eighteenth-century Dublin by Alison Fitzgerald 18
‘Dropped into this Kingdom from the clouds’: The Irish career of Davis Dukart, architect and engineer, 1761-81 by John Logan 34
The artistic and cultural activities of the Caldwells of Castle Caldwell, 1750-1783 by Toby Barnard 90
Hugh Howard (1675-1738), eclectic artist and connoisseur by Nicola Figgis 112
Nineteenth-century stained glass in the Church of Ireland diocese of Limerick & Killaloe by David Lawrence 132
Chapel Royal and symbol of the Church militant: the iconography of Christ Church and St Patrick’s cathedrals, Dublin, c.1660-1760 Robin Usher 200
A shopping arcade in eighteenth-century Dublin: John Rocque and the Essex Street ‘piazzas’ by John Montague 224
A new Wyatt church in Ireland by Jennifer Moore 246
Decoration and property speculation: newspaper advertisements from Michael Stapleton and Charles Thorp by Conor Lucey 264