The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors just minutes away

just minutes away

has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of ‘Somerville and Ross’ fame – authors of The Irish R

The buildings range across 84 years from 1937 to 2021

The Ordnance Survey’s large-scale town plans for Dublin (1847) are the focus of this book

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors just minutes awayFour Courts Press, 2024 Hardback, 256 pages 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