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The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923 During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy and those demanding access to more land. Stripped of their most important artifacts, most of the houses were never rebuilt and ruins such as Summerhill stood like ghostly figures for generations to come. Terence Dooley offers a unique perspective on the Irish Revolution, exploring the struggles over land, the impact of the Great War, and why the country mansions of the landed class became such a symbolic target for republicans throughout period. Dooley details the shockingly sudden acts of occupation and destruction-including soldiers using a Rembrandt as a dart board-and evokes the exhilaration felt by the revolutionaries at seizing these grand houses and visibly overturning the established order.

During the Irish Revolution nearly three hundred country houses were burned to the ground. These "Big Houses" were powerful symbols of conquest, plantation, and colonial oppression, and were caught up in the struggle for independence and the conflict between the aristocracy and those demanding access to more land. Stripped of their most important artifacts, most of the houses were never rebuilt and ruins such as Summerhill stood like ghostly figures for generations to come. Terence Dooley offers a unique perspective on the Irish Revolution, exploring the struggles over land, the impact of the Great War, and why the country mansions of the landed class became such a symbolic target for republicans throughout period. Dooley details the shockingly sudden acts of occupation and destruction-including soldiers using a Rembrandt as a dart board-and evokes the exhilaration felt by the revolutionaries at seizing these grand houses and visibly overturning the established order

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1. Biography and the meaning of an Irish country house: William Conolly and Castletown -- 2. An absentee family's suburban demesne: the making of Mount Merrion, Co. Dublin -- Gothic in post-Union Ireland: the uses of the past in Ardare, Co. Limerick -- 4. Irish landlords and the Wyndham Land Act, 1903 -- 5. The burning of country houses in Co. Offaly during the revolutionary period, 1920-3 -- 6. 'Ascendancy's … last big jamboree': big house society in Northern Ireland, 1921-69 -- 7. 'It was like a scene from the ball in 'Gone with the Wind': social life at Castle Hyde, 1931-88 -- 8. The 'Music in the Irish Country House' project: origins and objectives -- 9. Education and the historic house: where the past has a value for the future -- 10. Making and meaning in the country house: new perspectives in England, Ireland, and Scotland -- 11. The twilight of the ascendancy and the big house: a view from the twenty-first century -- List of illustrations -- Index.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The architectural endeavours of the widowed Jemima Yorke, Marchioness Grey -- 2 Families are 'sometimes … the best at a distance': sisters and sisters-in-law at Nostell Priory, West Yorkshire -- 3 Five women of Monksgrange -- 4 Declaring loyalty to the Union: the women of Ulster's country houses and the organization of Ulster Day -- 5 Madeline Wyndham of Clouds and Mabel Morrison of Fonthill -- 6 Catherine Maria Bury of Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly, and the design of the country house, 1800-12 -- 7 Lady Harriet Kavanagh of Borris House, 1800-85, matriarch and guardian of the future -- 8 Sisterly guidance: elite women, sorority and the life cycle, 1770-1860 -- 9 'Lasting monuments': Lady Gregory's domesticated landscape and forestry -- 10 'I serve my God, and I fear not man': the Rebecca Riots and a female landowner's response to Welsh rural protest, 1843-4 -- 11 The country house and the Great Famine: Mildred Darby's novel, The hunger -- 12 Rosalind Howard, the contradictory countess of Carlisle -- 13 Elite women and their recipe books: the case of Dorothy Parsons and her Booke of Choyce Receipts, all written with her ownehand in 1666 -- 14 'I will do myself the pleasure of now writing to you' -- Louisa Conolly's letters to her sister, Sarah Bunbury -- 15 Louisa Moore of Moore Hall: a life in letters -- List of Contributors -- Index