Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland

Studies in Irish Georgian Silver

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Irish silver, for long renowned among collectors and connoisseurs, is increasingly being considered as an aspect of the material world of the past. Its making, acquisition and use...
Author/Editor: Alison FitzGerald, editor

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 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

Improving Ireland?

Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641–1786

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The idea of improvement featured consistently in schemes to transform Ireland into a prosperous, peaceful and English place. Two strands were especially strong: physical changes through different kinds...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard