Country House Collections

Women and the country house in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley, Maeve O'Riordan & Christopher Ridgway, editors

This volume of essays examines the lives of women in country houses in Ireland and Britain from the seventeenth century to the twentieth century. The authors pr…

Borris House, Co. Carlow, and elite regency patronage

Edmund Joyce

Borris House, situated in the small town of Borris in Co. Carlow, is the ancestral home of the MacMurrough Kavanagh family. The family have had a residence at B…

The country house and the Great War

Irish and British experiences

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Drawing on archival materials, and incorporating never-before-seen images, this volume presents a spectrum of experience: from owners, to servants and tenants, …

The Irish Country House

Its past, present and future

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

‘In their variety, these essays indicate how very new is serious analysis of the Irish country house and how many avenues remain to be explored’, Irish Times. 
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Sport and leisure in the Irish and British country house

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that ‘Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.’

Throughout Ireland and Britain …

Sir John Keane and Cappoquin House in time of war and revolution

Glascott Symes

This study provides an in-depth look at the fascinating life of John Keane, who managed the Cappoquin estate in Co. Waterford during one of the most turbulent p…

Irish houses and castles, 1400–1740

Rolf Loeber

This volume assembles Rolf Loeber’s groundbreaking articles on Irish houses and castles from the late medieval period to the mid eighteenth century. Read togeth…

The big houses and landed estates of Ireland

A research guide

Terence Dooley

This book is designed to provide historians and all those interested in local history, specifically the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with prac…

Monksgrange

Portrait of an Irish house and family, 1769–1969

Philip Bull

A County Wexford Ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention, in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a compelling story of Irish history from the eighteenth…

The decline and fall of the dukes of Leinster, 1872–1948

Love, war, debt and madness

Terence Dooley

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland’s premier aristocratic family – the dukes of Leinster – who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glo…