Author : P. David Sweetman
Publisher : Irish Books & Media
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,8 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This book traces the development of the Irish medieval castle from 1169 onwards, drawing on the research and records of the Archaeological Survey.
Author : Mairead Ashe Fitzgerald
Publisher :
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : Castles
ISBN : 9781847176677
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.
Author : John R. Kenyon
Publisher : Four Courts Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
This book contains essays originating from the 1998 Castle Studies Group Conference, held in Maynooth, county Kildare, Ireland. The book has been brought together specifically to advance research on castles and fortifications in Ireland and Wales.
Author : Tadhg O'Keeffe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Castles
ISBN : 9781846828638
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?
Author : T.E. McNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 28,38 MB
Release : 2005-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134708858
The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the story of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. A lord's power and prestige was displayed in the majesty and uniqueness of his castle. The remains of several thousand castles enable us to reconstruct life in Ireland during these crucial centuries. Castles in Ireland tells the story of the nature and development of lordship and power in medieval Ireland. Ireland formed the setting to the interplay of the differing roles of competing lordships: English and Irish; feudal European and Gaelic; royal and baronial. Tom McNeill argues that the design of the castles contests the traditional view of Ireland as a land torn by war and divided culturally between the English and Irish.
Author : Robert Liddiard
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 13,78 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780851159041
Wide-ranging studies offer an in-depth analysis of castle-building 11th - 12th centuries and place castles within their broader social and political context. The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings. Castles remain a controversial topic of academic debate and here equal weight is given to seminal articles that have defined the study of the subject while at the same time emphasising newer approaches to the fortresses of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy. The studies in this volume range from discussions of the residential and military role of the castle to architectural symbolismand royal attitudes to baronial fortification. The result is a survey that offers an in-depth analysis of castle-building during the eleventh and twelfth centuries but which also places Anglo-Norman castles within their broader social, architectural and political context. Contributors: ANN WILLIAMS, RICHARD EALES, DEREK RENN, LAWRENCE BUTLER, ROBERT HIGHAM, MARJORIE CHIBNALL, R.ALLEN BROWN, CHARLES COULSON, SIDNEY PAINTER, FREDERICK C. SUPPE, GRANT G. SIMPSON, BRUCE WEBSTER, J.R. KENYON, THOMAS McNEILL, T.A. HESLOP, PHILIP DIXON, PAMELA MARSHALL, JOHN BLAIR, CHARLES COULSON, ROBERT LIDDIARD
Author : T. McNeill
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
Page : pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780713478471
Author : Charles Coulson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0199273634
The vast majority of castles in England, Wales, Ireland, and France have virtually no military history' of sieges or physical conflict across the whole panorama of more than five centuries'. This is quite a sobering thought.
Author : James Lyttleton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781846822742
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 lining up 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 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.
Author : Charles Phillips
Publisher : Southwater
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 2009-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781844765638
This lavishly illustrated book records the history of Britain's finest secular buildings up to 1485, tracing their development from ancient earthworks and Roman forts to the splendours of castle building introduced by the Romans.
