The Big house in Ireland
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The Big house in Ireland
Cassell & Co., 2000
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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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