Selected conference papers from the Annual Historic Houses of Ireland Conferences held at NUI Maynooth.
Biography and the meaning of an Irish country house : William Conolly and Castletown / Patrick Walsh
An absentee family's suburban demesne : the making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin / Finola O'Kane
Gothic in post-Union Ireland : the uses of the past in Adare, Co. Limerick / Judith Hill
Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 / Judith Hill
The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revoloutionary period, 1920-3 / CiarĂ¡n J. Reilly
"Ascendancy's ... last big jamboree" : big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921{u2013}69 / Olwen Purdue
"It was like a scene from the ball in Gone with the wind : social life at Castle Hyde, 1931{u2013}88 / Terence Dooley
The Music in the Irish country house project : origins and objectives / Karol Mullaney-Dignam
Education and the historic house : where the past has a value for the future / Danielle O'Donovan & Jennifer McCrea
Making and meaning in the country house : new perspectives in England, Ireland and Scotland / Christopher Ridgway
The twilight of the ascendancy and the big house : a view from the twenty-first century / Allen Warren.
The Irish country house : its past, present and future. ISBN 9781846822346. Published by Four Courts Press in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.