The MacGeough Bonds of The Argory

Armagh

The Irish Revolution, 1912-23

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County Armagh was one of the most controversial theatres of political and military conflict during the 1912–23 period. The county’s long-standing antipathy between unionism and nationalism intensified during...
Author/Editor: Donal Hall & Eoin Magennis

The impact of the Great Famine on Sir William Palmer's estates in Mayo, 1840-69

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This book examines the impact of the Famine on Sir William Palmer’s Mayo estates, one of the largest in the county. It describes the estates’ social and...
Author/Editor: David Byrne

Poverty in pre-Famine Westmeath

The findings of the Poor Commission of 1833

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The scale of the Great Famine of 1846 has overshadowed the prevalence of extreme poverty in Ireland in the period 1815–45. As economic conditions deteriorated between those years,...
Author/Editor: Seán Byrne

The Protestant community in Ulster, 1825–45

A society in transition

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In the period prior to the Famine, Ulster’s Protestant community faced major change – social, political and economical. These challenges were created by the collapse of the linen...
Author/Editor: Daragh Curran

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

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