THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Written by Peter Somerville-Large
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.
in 1995
ISBN: 1856192377
- Categorised in:
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- IRELAND
- ARCHITECTURE
THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE
Written by Peter Somerville-Large.
Stock no. 1818676
1st.
1995.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.
A Social History. Green boards, gilt title to spine. B/w & a few colour photos. ISBN: 1856192377. Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is heavily faded at front spine edge.
Front cover
Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Map
- 1 The Beginning
- 2 The Coming of the Normans
- 3 The Anglo-Normans
- 4 Norman Decline
- 5 Gaelic World and the Earl of Kildare
- 6 Tudor Invaders
- 7 Raleigh and Spenser
- 8 Plantation of Ulster
- 9 The Earl of Cork
- 10 The Era of Strafford
- 11 Civil War
- 12 Cromwellians, the Duke of Ormonde and the First Lord Orrery
- 13 Late Seventeenth Century
- 14 After the Boyne
- 15 Swift and Berkeley
- 16 Mrs Delany and the Fifth Lord Orrery
- 17 Excess
- 18 Carton and Castletown
- 19 Society and Ennui
- 20 The Importance of Rank
- 21 Ingenuity
- 22 The Ninety-Eight
- 23 Post-Union
- 24 Evangelicals and Tithes
- 25 Happy Families
- 26 In the West
- 27 Famine
- 28 Those Who Tried
- 29 Aftermath
- 30 Soldiers, Cricket, Hunting, Ennui
- 31 Land League
- 32 Twilight
- 33 Amber Glow
- 34 The Loss of Power
- 35 The Vanishing
- Select Bibliography
- Index