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Author : David Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848891616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (916 download)
Download or read book Irish Country Houses written by David Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic chronicle of Irish country houses from their heyday to contemporary times.
Author : Knight of Glin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500515471
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (154 download)
Download or read book The Irish Country House written by Knight of Glin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the reader on a tour of ten grand Irish country houses, provided an intimate look at a marvellous hotchpotch of rooms and decoration.
Author : Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher : Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780094699908
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (999 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Irish Country Houses written by Mark Bence-Jones and published by Trans-Atlantic Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 2000 Irish country houses are feature d in this book, each having an alphabetical entry describing it. Almost all the entries give information on the history and ownership of the houses; many of them are enlivened with anecdotes and details. '
Author : Peter Somerville-Large
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Irish Country House written by Peter Somerville-Large and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1995 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers' tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called rural sovereigns, describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses.
Author : Desmond FitzGerald Glin (Knight of)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Vanishing Country Houses of Ireland written by Desmond FitzGerald Glin (Knight of) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia McCarthy
Publisher : Paul Mellon Centre
ISBN 13 : 9780300218862
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Life in the Country House in Georgian Ireland written by Patricia McCarthy and published by Paul Mellon Centre. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deft interweaving of architectural and social history
Author : Terence Dooley
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300265115
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Burning the Big House written by Terence Dooley and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These “Big Houses” were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy and those demanding access to more land. Stripped of their most important artifacts, most of the houses were never rebuilt and ruins such as Summerhill stood like ghostly figures for generations to come. Terence Dooley offers a unique perspective on the Irish Revolution, exploring the struggles over land, the impact of the Great War, and why the country mansions of the landed class became such a symbolic target for republicans throughout the period. Dooley details the shockingly sudden acts of occupation and destruction—including soldiers using a Rembrandt as a dart board—and evokes the exhilaration felt by the revolutionaries at seizing these grand houses and visibly overturning the established order.
Author : David Hicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848892262
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Irish Country Houses written by David Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While researching the first Irish Country Houses, David encountered beautiful portraits of former residents in aging mansions and has now compiled a collection of these wonderful stories and photographs. Behind the faces are tales of happiness and misfortune, of royalty, politicians, literary and artistic figures, of scandals and hunt balls. The houses, such as Antrim Castle, Moore Abbey, Lissadell, and Avondale, were built to impress. Many owners were patrons of the arts and commissioned the best artists such as William Orpen, Walter Osborne, and Sarah Purser. Now these portraits capture a way of life that no longer exists and each chapter paints a picture of a bygone age.
Author : Frank Keohane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780953689910
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (899 download)
Download or read book Period Houses written by Frank Keohane and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terence Dooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846829758
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Country House Collections written by Terence Dooley and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of essays explores a range of country house collections in Ireland, the UK, US and Europe. It examines how collections were built up over time, how they were dispersed or destroyed, and how they have been interpreted and valued. Among the topics considered are the impact of exhibitions, auctions, and tax systems, private versus institutional collectors, the range of audiences who appreciate art, and how collections are made to tell national stories.
Author : Mark Bence-Jones
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Life in an Irish Country House written by Mark Bence-Jones and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846828065
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Sport and Leisure in the Irish and British Country House written by Terence A. M. Dooley and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that 'Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.'0Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with the hosting of house parties, soirees and balls. Pastimes included photography, painting, astronomy and taxidermy. Outdoors the parkland was used for a variety of sporting activities including archery, cricket, croquet and shooting, as well as local sports events, and beyond the demesne activities included hunting, horse racing and yachting. In Ireland demesne lands were developed as golf courses and estates offered land to the nationalist-dominated Gaelic Athletic Association for football and hurling.0This volume provides fresh and original insights into how leisure and sport underpinned the social hierarchy of country houses and their local communities in Ireland and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Author : Sean O'Reilly
Publisher : Aurum Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845133511
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Irish Houses and Gardens written by Sean O'Reilly and published by Aurum Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a hundred years Country Life has been publishing definitive articles on the country houses of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with specially commissioned photography by some of the century' s pre-eminent architectural photographers. Taken predominantly on glass plate negatives, the beauty and comprehensiveness of these illustrations is without equal, making the Country Life photographic archive a truly amazing resource. After the turn of the twentieth century, the growing interest in Georgian architecture led Country Life' s writers to explore the unique to the development of the eighteenth-century house contribution made by Irish architects and craftsmen. However, as the pace of loss and destruction of so many houses quickened in the middle of the century, the magazine' s photographs became an increasingly important, sometimes unique, record of what had gone. Here Seá n O' Reilly, one of Ireland' s leading architectural historians, has selected two hundred of the archive' s most outstanding photographs and provided the essential historical background required for an appreciation of some of Ireland' s greatest buildings, making this book not only an important survey, but also a portfolio of classic photographs of unrivalled beauty and significance.
Author : Clive Aslet
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105056
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The American Country House written by Clive Aslet and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book describes the great country houses built with American industrial fortunes from the end of the Civil War until 1940. The American Country House draws on the rich and often amusing writings of contemporaries to evoke the lives the buildings served as well as architectural shapes they took. 275 illustrations.
Author : Terence A. M. Dooley
Publisher : Wolfhound Press (IE)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Decline of the Big House in Ireland written by Terence A. M. Dooley and published by Wolfhound Press (IE). This book was released on 2001 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of Ireland's big houses from the post-famine years until the 1950s.
Author : Terence Dooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846825897
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (258 download)
Download or read book The Irish Country House written by Terence Dooley and published by . This book was released on 2015-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this collection of essays emanates from the Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conference held at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, which provides focus and recognition for new scholarship and other developments in the field of historic house studies. *** "Interesting reading...we have come a long way in reimagining the country house." -- Irish Arts Review *** "This book provides a long and intensely interesting argument for the preservation not only of a house itself but of its written records, its muniments. For these are the history of the place, of the estate, of the village or town, of the townland, of its farms and holdings...celebrates above all the ability of such places to transform themselves, time after time." -- Irish Examine *** "From academics interested in accessing some of the latest research in the field of historic house, estate and demesne landscape studies, to those involved in the management and running of these houses as educational facilities and tourist attractions, to local and state authorities and the general public, this well illustrated, very readable book comes highly recommended." -- Irish Literary Supplement [Subject: History, Irish Studies]
Author : Mark Purcell
Publisher : National Trust
ISBN 13 : 9780707804163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Big House Library in Ireland written by Mark Purcell and published by National Trust. This book was released on 2011-06-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850 there were perhaps 2000 country houses in Ireland. Standing at the heart of its demesne, each Big House dominated its locality, but by the end of the 20th century, only a few hundred survived intact. No more than a handful were still in the possession of their original owners, or contained many of their original contents, including a substantial library. In some cases, this might well have been the only library in the district, though whether it was a carefully assembled collection or a haphazard accumulation of ancestral books would have varied from place to place. The National Trust in what is now Northern Ireland is responsible for most of the survivors. These collections have survived almost like time capsules, never subject to atmospheric pollution or the attentions of reforming librarians, and not heavily used in modern times. Many of their books contain the bookplates and ownership inscriptions of their long-dead owners, as well as instructions to binders, handwritten marginal notes and prices, and even the odd pressed flower; most are also in their original bindings. Together these features tell us a good deal about the tastes and interests of the people who owned them, and about the use, abuse and circulation of print across the whole of Ireland over a period of more than 400 years. Drawing on a wide range of previously untapped sources and evidence from the collections themselves, this lavishly-illustrated book is a must for anyone interested in the history of reading, collecting or country houses in Ireland.
