Introduction
Mark Girouard
Richard, fourth earl of Clanricard, and the English court
Timothy Wilks
Richard Burke (c.1572–1635) and the lordship of Clanricard
Bernadette Cunningham
Portumna: a great, many-windowed and gabled house
Jane Fenlon
Portumna: the excavations
Donald Murphy and Victoria Ginn
Locating Portumna in contemporary theory and practice in European architecture
Michael McCarthy
Portumna: ultramarine ancestors and cousins
Andor Gomme
Portumna in context: the setting of the early seventeenth-century house
Paula Henderson
Aston Hall: a house coeval with Portumna
Martin Ellis
Summary account of conservation works at Portumna
Paul McMahon