Land reform and legislation in Ireland, 1800-2024

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

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Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees...
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

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

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

Michael Davitt

Freelance radical and frondeur

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Michael Davitt (1846–1906) is popularly known as the founder of the Irish National Land League and as the architect of the Land War of 1879–82. However, the...
Author/Editor: Laurence Marley

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 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