The Irish country house : its past, present and future / Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors.
Published / Created:
Dublin : Four Courts Press, c2011.
Physical Description:
267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Selected conference papers.
Contents:
Biography and the meaning of an Irish country house : William Conolly and Castletown / Patrick Walsh -- An absentee family's suburban demesne : the making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin / Finola O'Kane -- Gothic in post-Union Ireland : the uses of the past in Adare, Co. Limerick / Judith Hill -- Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 / Patrick Cosgrove -- The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revolutionary period, 1920-3 / Ciarán J. Reilly -- "Ascendancy's ... last big jamboree" : big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921-69 / Olwen Purdue -- "It was like a scene from the ball in Gone with the wind" : social life at Castle Hyde, 1931-88 / Terence Dooley -- The Music in the Irish Country House project : origins and objective / Karol Mullaney-Dignam -- Education and the historic house : where the past has a value for the future / Danielle O'Donovan & Jennifer McCrea -- Making and meaning in the country house : new perspectives in England, Ireland and Scotland / Christopher Ridgway -- The twilight of the ascendancy and the big house : a view from the twenty-first century / Allen Warren.
Subject Terms:
Country homes -- Ireland -- Congresses. | Historic buildings -- Ireland -- Congresses. | Country homes -- Ireland -- History -- Congresses. | Historic buildings -- Ireland -- History -- Congresses. | Ireland -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Congresses.
Contributors:
Dooley, Terence A. M., 1964– | Ridgway, Christopher. | National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates. | Historic Houses of Ireland Conference.