Charles Owen O’Conor, the O’Conor Don

Charles O'Conor of Ballinagare

Life and works

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Charles O’Conor of Ballinagare (1710–91) was one of 18th-century Ireland’s greatest scholars. Writing in both Irish and English, his work was clearly influenced by the Enlightenment and he...
Author/Editor: Luke Gibbons & Kieran O'Conor, editors

Moygara Castle, County Sligo and the O’Gara's of Coolavin

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Moygara Castle, with its four towers, gatehouse and high curtain walls, is one of the most impressive masonry-built monuments in north Connacht. Constructed in the late fourteenth/early fifteenth...
Author/Editor: Kieran O’Conor, editor

Valentine Lawless, Lord Cloncurry, 1773–1853

From United Irishman to liberal politician

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This study of Valentine Lawless, 2nd Lord Cloncurry (1773–1853), provides a fresh perspective on the life of a late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century Irishman. During his sixty years in public...
Author/Editor: Karina Holton

Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, 1634-80

A Privileged Witness

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Thomas Butler, earl of Ossory, was a widely recognised hero of his time and his life story directly reflects the turbulent nature of seventeenth-century British and Irish politics....
Author/Editor: Daniel D. Jordan

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

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Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests....
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

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Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies ranging from antiquities,...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

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

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

Poynings' Law and the making of law in Ireland, 1660–1800

Monitoring the constitution

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Poynings’ Law was one of the most crucial statutes ever enacted by the Irish parliament, yet the law’s crucial impact on parliament’s operations from 1660 has never...
Author/Editor: James Kelly