Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

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

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 big houses and landed estates of Ireland

A research guide

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This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley

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

Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

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Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family have had a residence...
Author/Editor: Edmund Joyce

House and Home in Georgian Ireland

Spaces and Cultures of Domestic Life

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This book explores the everyday character and functions of domestic spaces in Georgian Ireland. Reflecting real as opposed to ideal patterns of living, the topics and themes addressed...
Author/Editor: Conor Lucey, editor

Thomas Conolly (1823-76) of Castletown House and the social networking of power

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This study is focused on Thomas Conolly of Castletown House, Co. Kildare, and the social networking of the power elite. Structured as a biography of Conolly, it...
Author/Editor: Suzanne M. Pegley

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

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