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Technology and the Big House in Ireland, C. 1800-c. 1930
Language: en
Pages: 382
Authors: Charles John Thomas Carson
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher: Cambria Press

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By the beginning of the nineteenth century, over ninety-five percent of all the productive land in Ireland was in the hands of Anglo-Irish landowners. They live
The Decline of the Big House in Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Terence A. M. Dooley
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Wolfhound Press (IE)

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This is a history of Ireland's big houses from the post-famine years until the 1950s.
The Big House Library in Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Mark Purcell
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-06-01 - Publisher: National Trust

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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 20
The Big House in Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Jacqueline Genet
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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The Big House has been an element of tragedy in the course of Ireland's history and it is considered such by contemporary novelists such as Aidan Higgins and Je
The Big House in the North of Ireland
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Olwen Purdue
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009 - Publisher:

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"The Big House in the North of Ireland" explores the changing fortunes of the landed elite in the six counties that became Northern Ireland from the land war of