Speculative Minds 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

Enjoying Claret in Georgian Ireland

A history of amiable excess

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This book looks at Ireland’s love affair with claret, which began in earnest with the establishment of Irish families in the wine trade in Bordeaux in the...
Author/Editor: Patricia McCarthy

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

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

The Goldsmiths of Dublin

Six centuries of achievement

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The history of Dublin’s goldsmiths is described in this important book, which charts the history of the Dublin Company of Goldsmiths from the Middle Ages to the...
Author/Editor: Douglas Bennett

Brought to book

Print in Ireland, 1680–1784

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Brought to book considers what was written, printed, published, owned and sometimes read in Ireland between 1680 and 1784. It seeks to evaluate the ephemeral and what...
Author/Editor: Toby Barnard

The Historian as Detective

Uncovering Irish Pasts. Essays in honour of Raymond Gillespie

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This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies...
Author/Editor: Terence Dooley, Mary Ann Lyons & Salvador Ryan