Spectral Mansions

The Best Address in Town

Henrietta Street, Dublin and Its First Residents, 1720-80

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Once Dublin’s most exclusive residential street, throughout the eighteenth century Henrietta Street was home to the country’s foremost figures from church, military and state. Here, in this elegant...
Author/Editor: Melanie Hayes

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

Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house

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Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’ Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland

by Arthur Gibney

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This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a...
Author/Editor: Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors

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

Wilhelmina Geddes

Life and work

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Shortlisted for *The Apollo Awards 2016 **Book of the Year* and *The William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2016*. Also, *Times Literary Supplement* choice for...
Author/Editor: Nicola Gordon Bowe