Danielle O’Donovan

Dr Danielle O’Donovan is the Director of The Butter Museum and is an architectural historian who has spent the last 25 years working in the heritage sector. A triple graduate of Trinity College Dublin, Danielle has worked for the Irish Heritage Trust, Nano Nagle Place and University College Cork. Danielle’s research interests include Irish architecture, sculpture and society in the late middle ages, the social and architectural history of Irish religious congregations, the history of eating and feasting, museums and their societal and environmental roles, and… all things Cork! Hailing from Ardfield in West Cork, Danielle (O’Donovan Trá) has been a fan of Somerville and Ross since her teenage years and on her first week in Trinity took the opportunity to read the first edition of The Shocker (An Irish Cousin) by Geilles Herring and Martin Ross in Early Printed Books. She marked the Decade of Centenaries by reading The Enthusiast and has been reading The Irish R.M. stories out of order all her life so that she never feels she has finished them!