The intellectual world of the country house in Ireland and Britain , [2024]
- Title(s):
- The intellectual world of the country house in Ireland and Britain / Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors.
- Published/Created:
- Dublin, Ireland ; Chicago, IL : Four Courts Press, [2024]
©2024 - Physical Description:
- xiii, 205 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Holdings:
- Reference LibraryNA7337 .I58 2024 (LC)Accessible in the Reference Library [Hours]
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/17501360
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In varying degrees their occupants thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu through books, newspapers, and other media. Their libraries and archives provide an invaluable record of how people in country houses fashioned themselves and their views of the world. The essays in this volume examine reading habits, book collections and practical applications of thinking to demonstrate how elite society exchanged ideas, absorbed new trends, and engaged in wider debate.' -- Details from publisher. - Subject Terms:
- Country homes -- Decoration.Country homes -- Great Britain -- Intellectual life.Country homes -- Great Britain -- Social life and customs.Country homes -- Great Britain.Country homes -- Ireland -- Intellectual life.Country homes -- Ireland -- Social life and customs.Country homes -- Ireland.Country homes -- Landscape architecture.Historic buildings.
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- Introduction / Vincent Comerford
- Historic houses and their associations / Ben Cowell
- The painted decorations in the long gallery at Castletown House: new light on the intellectual lives of Thomas and Louisa Conolly / Deirdre Cullen
- 'An effect rather than a reality'? The place of the country house in the Irish gentry's perception of their world / Ian d'Alton
- Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville / Kristina Decker
- Frances Power Cobbe, daughter of the Irish country house / Cathal Dowd Smith
- Safe and unsafe houses: architecture, politics and the Irish cultural imagination / Roy Foster
- 'A persevering proclamation of gospel truth' : the 3rd earl of Roden and evangelical Christianity at Tollymore Park and Dundalk House, c.1820-70 / James Frazer
- Irish country house libraries and social change, 1650-1750 / Raymond Gillespie
- The Moore brothers and the library at Moore Hall: differing visions of its legacy in a new Ireland / Elizabeth Grubgeld
- An intergenerational chronicle: the library at Adare Manor, Co. Limerick / Anna-Maria Hajba
- Photographers and antiquarians in Paris: Goddard Orpen and Eugene Atget / Jeremy Hill
- From muniment room to online access: family and estate archives at Cowdray House, Knole, and Ham House / Elizabeth Jamieson
- Reading the eighteenth-century print room / Kate Retford
- The house of ideas / Christopher Ridgway
- The library at Annes Grove / Aileen Spitere.