The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors has delivered a new novel

has delivered a new novel based on the life of Edith Somerville of ‘Somerville and Ross’ fame – authors of The Irish R

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

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The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain interiors has delivered a new novelFour 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