The Irish country house: its past, present and future (2011)

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway (editors)

This volume of essays emanates from the highly successful Historic Houses of Ireland Conference held at NUI Maynooth each year since 2003. Edited by: Terence Dooley, Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at NUI Maynooth, and Christopher Ridgway, Curator of Castle Howard in Yorkshire, UK.

Contents:

  • R.V. Comerford: Foreword
  • Patrick Walsh: William Conolly and Castletown
  • Finola O’Kane: The making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin
  • Judith Hill: The uses of the past in Adare, Co. Limerick
  • Patrick Cosgrove: Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903
  • Ciarán J. Reilly: The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revoloutionary period, 1920-3
  • Olwen Purdue: Big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921–69
  • Terence Dooley: Social life at Castle Hyde, 1931–88
  • Karol Mullaney-Dignam: The Music in the Irish country house project
  • Danielle O’Donovan & Jennifer McCrea: Education and the historic house
  • Christopher Ridgway: Making and meaning in the country house
  • Allen Warren: The Twilight of the ascendancy and the big house

 

Published by:

Four Courts Press. See: www.fourcourtspress.ie/product.php?intProductID=946