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Irish Houses & Castles

Author : Desmond Guinness

Publisher : Outlet

Page : 352 pages

File Size : 23,70 MB

Release : 1971

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9780517249413

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Blarney Castle

Author : James Lyttleton

Publisher : Four Courts PressLtd

Page : 157 pages

File Size : 30,46 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 9781846823145

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Blarney Castle, the medieval home of the MacCarthy lords of Muskerry, is one of Ireland's best-known castles. Many visitors to Ireland include a trip to the castle in their itinerary, often queuing to kiss the Blarney Stone in hope of acquiring the 'gift of the gab.' Yet, despite the castle's ubiquitous image on postcards and tourist promotional literature, there is little acknowledgment of the building's historical and archaeological significance as a native lordly residence. This book - now available in paperback - brings the castle's architecture to the fore, placing it in the context of an expansive native lordship in late medieval Munster, and showing how changes in the layout and appearance of the building can be attributed to the castle's occupants, who continued to redefine their social standing and cultural identity through the Tudor reconquest and beyond.



Castles of Ireland

Author : Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald

Publisher :

Page : 80 pages

File Size : 32,79 MB

Release : 2015-03-02

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9781847176677

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Castles are the most familiar medieval landmark across the Irish countryside. Their often romantic appearance belies their turbulent history and their lore abounds in stories of sieges, betrayals and daring escapes. From the earliest stone castles such as Dublin Castle to the fortified manor houses such as Red Hugh O'Donnell's Donegal Castle, each has a fascinating and individual story to tell. Castles of Ireland brings the reader on a tour of more than sixty castles, from the biggest and most well-known to dramatic and atmospheric ruins which had a role to play in shaping Ireland's history.



Irish Houses and Castles, 1400-1740

Author : Rolf Loeber

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 45,68 MB

Release : 2019

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9781846828201

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A new volume collecting together, for the first time, the writings of the esteemed academic, Rolf Loeber. This stunning new work also includes a bibliography of the writings of Rolf Loeber on Irish history, architecture, settlement and literature, featuring over 100 maps, photographs and illustrations.00From the contents:0- Chapter One: An architectural history of Gaelic castles and settlements, 1370?1600; 0- Chapter Two: The geography and practice of English colonisation in Ireland, 1534?1609; 0- Chapter Three: Pre-plantation architecture and the early seventeenth-century building conditions for Ulster and the Midlands plantations; 0- Chapter Four: Irish houses and castles, 1660?1690; 0- Chapter Five: Early Classicism in Ireland: architecture before the Georgian era; 0- Chapter Six: The architecture of Irish country houses 1691-1740: continuity and innovation; 0- Chapter Seven: A bibliography of the writings of Rolf Loeber on Irish history, architecture, settlement and literature.



Castles in Ireland

Author : T.E. McNeill

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 277 pages

File Size : 49,58 MB

Release : 2005-08-18

Category : Education

ISBN : 1134708866

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The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the story of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. Dr McNeill weaves the evidence from the castles into the story of lordship and power in medieval Eire.



Ireland Encastellated AD 950-1550

Author : Tadhg O'Keeffe

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 12,80 MB

Release : 2021-02-26

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9781846828638

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Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland to the tenth century in line with the revised chronology of castle-building on the Continent? Are castles in Ireland typical of their periods by contemporary standards in England and France in particular? Are any castles in Ireland genuinely innovative or radical by those contemporary standards? What inferences about Ireland's place in medieval Europe can be drawn from the evidence of its castles and their forms?



Great Houses of Ireland

Author : Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd

Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 48,6 MB

Release : 1999

Category : Architecture, Domestic

ISBN : 9780847822065

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Displays 26 castles and country seats and discusses social history alongside the development of the Irish country house.



Castles

Author : Plantagenet Somerset Fry

Publisher : David & Charles Publishers

Page : 256 pages

File Size : 28,84 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9780715326923

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Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.



Exploring Ireland's Castles

Author : Tarquin Blake

Publisher : Collins Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 46,19 MB

Release : 2017

Category : Castles

ISBN : 9781848893269

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Whether ruined or opulant, castles can fire the imagination. Here is a breathtaking tour of some of Ireland's lesser known castles, accompanied by hundreds of color photos, and true stories of duels, derring-do, and defiance.