Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house

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

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 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

Monksgrange

Portrait of an Irish house and family, 1769–1969

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A County Wexford Ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention, in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a compelling story of Irish history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries....
Author/Editor: Philip Bull

Lady Butler

War artist and traveller, 1846–1933

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This is the first biography of Victorian Britain’s greatest war artist, Elizabeth Thompson Butler, who found fame and public acclaim after exhibiting her Crimean War painting The Roll Call in...
Author/Editor: Catherine Wynne

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

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This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley