Somerville-Large, The Irish Country House: A Social History.
Somerville-Large, The Irish Country House: A Social History.
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Somerville-Large, Peter. The Irish Country House: A Social History. Specially commissioned photographs by Mark Fiennes. First Edition. London, Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995. 19.5 x 25cm. (11), 373 pages, (10 [Index]./ With colour and black and white photographs throughout. Original hardcover with dustjacket in protective Brodart cover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Name of previous owner on front free end paper. Internally bright and clean. For seven hundred years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland. Within their demesnes landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents. In the twentieth century they vanished, leaving behind ruins and a reputation for being ogres. Making use of letters, diaries, memoirs, estate documents, inventories, travellers’ tales and family reminiscences, Peter Somerville-Large examines the lifestyle of the so-called “rural sovereigns”. He describes the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses. [From jacket notes]
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