The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Vincent Comerford
Foreword

Ben Cowell
The historic house and its associations

Deirdre Cullen
The painted decorations in the long gallery at Castletown House: new light on the intellectual lives of Thomas and Louisa Conolly

Ian d’Alton
The place of the country house in the Irish gentry’s perception of their world

Kristina Decker
Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville

Cathal Dowd Smith
Frances Power Cobbe, daughter of the Irish country house

Roy Foster
Architecture, politics and the Irish cultural imagination

James Frazer
The 3rd earl of Roden and evangelical christianity at Tollymore Park and Dundalk House, c.1820–70

Raymond Gillespie
Irish country house libraries and social change, 1650–1750

Elizabeth Grubgeld
The Moore brothers and the library at Moore Hall

Anna-Maria Hajba
The library at Adare Manor, Co. Limerick

Jeremy Hill
The photography of G.H. Orpen

Elizabeth Jamieson
The history of the family and estate archives at Cowdray, Knole, and Ham House

Kate Retford
Reading the eighteenth-century print room

Christopher Ridgway
Houses of ideas