The Irish country house
Subtitle: its past, present and future
By: Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors
Contributors: National University of Ireland, Maynooth. Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates; Historic Houses of Ireland Conference
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Dublin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781846822346
Subjects: Social conditions; Country homes; Congresses; Historic buildings; History
Description: This volume of essays emanates from the Historic Houses of Ireland conference, held at NUI Maynooth each year since 2004.
Notes: Selected conference papers.

"This volume of essays originated from the Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conferences hosted by the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at the National University of Ireland Maynooth since its establishment in 2004"--P. 17.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Biography and the meaning of an Irish country house : William Conolly and Castletown / Patrick Walsh; title: An absentee family's suburban demesne : the making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin / Finola O'Kane; title: Gothic in post-Union Ireland : the uses of the past in Adare, Co. Limerick / Judith Hill; title: Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 / Patrick Cosgrove; title: The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revolutionary period, 1920-3 / Ciarán J. Reilly; title: "Ascendancy's ... last big jamboree" : big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921-69 / Olwen Purdue; title: "It was like a scene from the ball in Gone with the wind" : social life at Castle Hyde, 1931-88 / Terence Dooley; title: The Music in the Irish Country House project : origins and objective / Karol Mullaney-Dignam; title: Education and the historic house : where the past has a value for the future / Danielle O'Donovan & Jennifer McCrea; title: Making and meaning in the country house : new perspectives in England, Ireland and Scotland / Christopher Ridgway; title: The twilight of the ascendancy and the big house : a view from the twenty-first century / Allen Warren.