The Big house in Ireland

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The Big house in Ireland

Valerie Pakenham ; photography by Thomas Pakenham

Cassell & Co., 2000

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Written about by novelists and poets, the "Big House" has been a part of the Irish landscape for over 400 year. This anthology portrays life in the big house in a chronological structure, the aim being to create a documentary history, good or bad, of the role of the Big House in Ireland.

Table of Contents

  • Builders
  • parks and planting
  • gardens and follies
  • interiors
  • plumbing, heating and the lack of them
  • grandees, squaires and squireens
  • alliances and mesalliances
  • family life
  • hopsitality
  • retainers
  • the ills of the flesh
  • wild sports of the west
  • landlords and tenants
  • the famine and after
  • land wars
  • troubles
  • staying on.

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