Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

“This finely produced series of essays is the sixth volume on themes relating to the country houses of Ireland and Britain emerging from the annual Historic Houses Conference held at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at the Department of History at Maynooth University, headed by the indefatigable Professor Terence Dooley in association with Christopher Ridgway, adjunct professor at Maynooth and Curator of Castle Howard, Yorkshire. As expected, the contributions are of rigorous academic standard, comprehensively researched and footnoted, and generously illustrated, though with nothing in colour which renders lifeless fine paintings and drawings.” Thomas Lloyd, Archaeologia Cambrensis (Vol 173 for 2024)