The Irish Country House: A Social History by Peter Somerville-Large (PT131)

Published 1995: First Edition / Hardcover / Very Good Condition / Illustrated throughout

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original pictorial dust jacket. 372 + very clean and bright pages, mild speckled edges. Slight shelf wear on the edges and covers. (PT131)

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For 700 years the Ascendancy dominated Ireland: landlords built their great houses, landscaped their parks and spent wealth gathered from rents, before disappearing in the 20th century. 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", describing the elegance, discomfort, and danger associated with castle and mansion, and the lives of many famous figures who created or inhabited the great houses. Google Books.