Review: Burning the Big House, the Story of the Irish Country house in Time of War and Revolution
By Terence Dooley Published by Yale University Press, New Haven 2022 Reviewer: John Dorney Terence Dooley has devoted much of his …
The Castle in the Lordship of Ireland, 1177-1310
Joanna Pierce looks at the importance of castles in consolidating the Norman presence in medieval Ireland. “The establishment of the new English …
The Big House and the Irish Revolution
John Dorney looks at the burning of the Big Houses in the Irish Revolution of 1919-23. Late on January 29, 1923, Lady Mayo …