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THE IRISH COUNTRY HOUSE

by Peter Somerville-Large

Published by Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd.. 1st. 1995

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.

Name in ink to front endpaper. Text block a little grubby. Contents clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is heavily faded at front spine edge.

ISBN: 1856192377
Stock no. 1818676

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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

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