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Terence Dooley
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923
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This volume explores the provenance, mechanisms and impact of land legislation and land reform in Ireland from the 1800 to 1992, one of the dominant issues in Irish politics, society…
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Daniel Samoilovich
Tien Mai, the poet-narrator of Awaking Demons, is a self-exiled Vietnamese princeling grumpily eking out a hotel life in 1930s Switzerland, but he is also humorous, cynical, profound, romantic -…
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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…
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This is the first anthology of its kind to appear in the UK, and features ten poets: Pilar Adon, Martha Asuncion Alonso, Graciela Baquero, Mercedes Cebrian, Maria Eloy-Garcia, Berta Garcia…
Monaghan politics and society were transformed in the turbulent years 1912-23. This book offers intriguing insights into how events played out at local level, focusing on the impact of Monaghan’s…
This title concerns the history of land distribution in Ireland after independence.
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I bring together in Streets Where to Walk Is to Embark a wide selection of poems written about London over the past two centuries by Spanish poets. Sometimes London is…
Eduardo Moga
Like a glazier reconstructing a mirror broken into a hundred shards, Eduardo Moga assembles a portrait of his father, thirty years after his death, from tiny sharp fragments of memory…
The Enchanted Isles begins with a dream in which Oh, the narrator, returns to a voyage he made to the Galapagos ten years earlier. It was to be a voyage…
Mariano Peyrou
"Peyrou's 'Possibilities in Shade' is a beautiful love poem, an inspired ode to self-recognition." -Marjorie Perloff
Mercedes Cebrian
Mercedes Cebrian is one of the most fascinating and original voices in current Spanish poetry; she is interested in how the ideas and ideals by which we live our lives…
Addresses themes pertaining to Irish country houses, including the construction and architectural styles and their demesnes; the demise of landlordism in the early part of the 20th century; the fate…
Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with the hosting of house parties, soirees and balls. This volume provides fresh and original…
The Year of the Crab tells the story of an endless seaside summer. It is a musical interplay of emotions and ideas, with recurring motifs and characters, often very funny…
Country houses have always been a magnet for visitors. In early days individuals with the correct social credentials could gain entry, while visitors such as royalty were self-invited guests. With…
Jordi Doce
Master of Distances consists of a hundred or so prose fragments fluctuating between dream, nightmare and a harsh reality: the bleakness of ageing, and accompanying the loved one through a…
This book presents a range of experiences from owners, servants and tenants as well as the local communities living close to the big house . These personal narratives and never-before-seen…
This volume explores a range of country house collections in Ireland, the UK, US and Europe, examining how collections were built up over time, how they were dispersed or destroyed…
Mario Martin Gijon
Mario Martin Gijon’s (Sur)rendering is a sequence of short passionate lyrics describing a love lost and found. This might sound like nothing new in the history of poetry, but the…
This book is designed to provide those interested in the history of landed estates and Irish big houses, with practical advice regarding the availability of primary sources, their strengths and…
To counterbalance the hierarchies and justifications of modern life, there are voices raised in protest, like Eduardo Moga’s, which don’t mourn a presumed lost golden age … That phase was…
Chatelaines, mothers, wives, daughters, widows, sisters, housekeepers and maids were ever-present figures in the mircocosm of the country house. Drawing on hitherto unseen family archives, this volume brings new perspectives…
This collection of short essays presents the fruits of painstaking investigations conducted by over eighty scholars of history, early Irish, nua-Ghaeilge, archaeology, osteoarchaeology, forensic anthropology, geography and classical studies to…
Examines how the inhabitants of nineteenth and twentieth-century Ireland plundered their pasts for polemical reasons. This title includes the essays that explore how revolutionaries, politicians, churchmen, artists, tourists and builders…
