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Richmond Barracks 1916

“We were there” – 77 women of the Easter Rising

Mary McAuliffe & Liz Gillis

‘Not the least of the betrayals following the 1916 Rising was the way in which the women who took part in it were subsequently written out of the chronicles. Th…

Country House Collections

Their lives and afterlives

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have been defined by their contents as much as by their architecture, landscapes and the families who occupied them. They have boasted assemblies…

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…

Her Keys to the City

Honouring the Women who made Dublin

Alison Gilliland and Clodagh Finn

Just four women were among the 83 people given the Freedom of the City of Dublin since the award was inaugurated in 1876 to June 2022. The genesis of this book …

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 …

The Mansion House, Dublin

300 years of history and hospitality

Mary Clark, editor

Dublin’s Mansion House is the only mayoral residence in Ireland and is older than any surviving in Great Britain. Originally the town house of merchant and prop…

Anglo-Irish and Gaelic Women in Ireland, c.1170–1540

Gillian Kenny

Gillian Kenny provides a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland through an examination of their marital circumstances. By comparing and cont…

Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Welcome and Unwelcome

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses have always been magnets for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as roy…

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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East Galway agrarian agitation and the burning of Ballydugan House, 1922

Ann O'Riordan

Part of the Maynooth Studies in Local History.

This book is based on the burning of Ballydugan house in 1922, a middle-sized country house on a 1,500-acre esta…