Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Edmund Joyce

‘The Maynooth Studies in Local History have brought about a quiet revolution in Irish local studies, and have changed the larger landscape too. Working from fascinating and little-known sources, and mobilizing the resources of energetic and imaginative scholarship, an extraordinary range of subjects has been identified, illuminated, and brought into focus. These 100 publications not only explore little known local episodes and phenomena; they constitute a major contribution to the mainstream of Irish history’, R.F. Foster, historian.

‘The book is well written, researched and annotated … It is a major contribution to the study of early 19th century Carlow, “a period in Irish architectural and fine art history which has for a long time been the poor relation of the 18th century”’, Carloviana (2013).