Analysis: for over 200 years the Big House novel has remained a thriving literary tradition led by an array of Irish women writers, north and south The Big House occupies an ambivalent position in ...

On January 29th, 1923, on a stormy winter’s night, a group of armed and disguised anti-treaty Irish Republican Army (IRA) members arrived at the earl of Mayo’s Palmerstown House in Co Kildare.

The history of big houses or their ruins ... In the first edition, Donal Byrne examines how and why the greater part of Irish land was originally acquired during plantations, taking a look ...

Terence Dooley explains The great transfer of land ownership that took place in Ireland under the 1903 Land Act led to the migration of many landlords and the abandonment of their Big Houses.

Burning The Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution Terence Dooley Yale University Press €31.50, dubraybooks.ie The insurgents came to Ballyrankin on a ...

What happened to the so-called Big House across the island of Ireland after the country was partitioned? Historic mansions, set in sprawling estates, once dotted the countryside with landlords ...

Out of place and out of time in the new Irish Free State, some Big Houses were sold and their contents scattered, or turned into government buildings, schools, hospitals, hotels, even prisons ...

These pictures give us a glimpse into the day-to-day work undertaken by the Irish people for those living in the Big House. Unless your family was among the landed gentry or were fortunate enough ...

Castlemartyr is an example of what are referred to in Ireland as “big houses” — large country homes built by wealthy Anglo-Irish landowners between the 17th and 19th centuries. In many parts ...