The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors reflected a growing city and

reflected a growing city and a more confident economy

Their travels are recorded in an extensive collection of letters (from Pococke to his mother and from both cousins to their uncle

This new volume contains some 150 from his own selection of his best work with each photograph accompanied by illuminating descriptions and anecdotes

and seeks to lay the foundations for a more structured analysis of popular protest during a period when riotous behaviour was normative

The buildings range across 84 years from 1937 to 2021

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors reflected a growing city andFour Courts Press, 2024 Hardback, 256 pages 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 thought, conversed, read, and responded to their milieu through books, newspapers, and other media. Their libraries and archives provide an invaluable record of how people in country houses fashioned themselves and