East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

The Irish Country House

Its past, present and future

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‘In their variety, these essays indicate how very new is serious analysis of the Irish country house and how many avenues remain to be explored’, Irish Times.  This...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

The country house and the Great War

Irish and British experiences

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Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experience: from owners, to servants and tenants, as well as the local communities that...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

The murders at Wildgoose Lodge

Agrarian crime and punishment in pre-Famine Ireland

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On the night of 29-30 October 1816 eight people were murdered by burning to death in a house in a remote part of County Louth, known locally...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley

Loughrea, that den of infamy

The Land War in County Galway, 1879–82

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During the Land War of 1879–82, Galway was regarded as 'dangerously disturbed' because of the large number of agrarian incidents reported. These included murders, wounding of persons and...
Author/Editor: Pat Finnegan

The case of the Craughwell Prisoners during the Land War in Co. Galway, 1879–85

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At the height of the Land War in 1881, a dispute over land led to the shooting dead of a young man called Peter Doherty near Craughwell,...
Author/Editor: Pat Finnegan

The Irish land agent, 1830–60

The case of King's County

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Land agents have been stereotypically represented in Irish history as alien, capricious and in general the tormentors of the tenantry. However, to date, no definitive examination exists of...
Author/Editor: Ciarán Reilly

Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain

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This volume of essays examines the lives of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The authors present...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Maeve O'Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors