Ireland in Brick and Stone (eBook)

Richard Killeen (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
Gill Books (Verlag)
978-0-7171-5362-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Ireland in Brick and Stone takes 50 buildings and other man-made constructions from different parts of Ireland and uses them to illustrate the history of the island over 1,500 years. All but three of the buildings are still surviving and they offer us a very personal way into history by teasing out the context in which each building was constructed, the uses to which it was put and the people associated with it. For example, Rockfleet Castle is a tower house in Co. Mayo, typical of a kind of building from the late medieval period to be found all over Ireland. It was a stronghold of the Burkes of Mayo, into which family Grace O'Malley otherwise known as Granuaile married in the 1540s. Ireland in Brick and Stone says very little about the castle itself but uses it as a chance to discuss the Burkes and other Norman settlers in late medieval Connacht, as well as the story of Granuaile herself. Another example from more modern times is the small Marian Shrine in the Liberties in Dublin, built for the centenary of Catholic Emancipation in 1929. It is used as a starting point to describe religious devotion and the power of the Catholic Church in twentieth-century Ireland. Other buildings in the book include Robinson & Cleaver's department store in Belfast; the English Market in Cork; Pearse's cottage in Connemara and Newtown Pery in Limerick. Liberally illustrated with evocative photographs this is a quirky and accessible take on Irish history.

Autor

Richard Killeen is the author of a number of books including The Concise History of Modern Ireland and The Historical Atlas of Dublin.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.9.2012
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Avondale • Balck Tom Butler's House • Busaras • Carrickfergus • Castletown Folly • Catholic Cathedral Waterford • Christ Church Cathedral • Clonfert • Clonmacnoise High Cross • Cobh • Cormac's Chapel Cashel • Drumcree church • Dublin tenements • Dunluce Castle • English market Cork • European Union House • Gallarus Dingle Peninsula • Glasnevin Cemetery • Ireland in Brick and Stone • Irish architecture • Irish gifts • Irish History • Knock airport • Marian Shrine Liberties • Market House Gorey • Market Square Thurles • Mechanics Institute • Mellifont • Millmount Drogheda • Moira station • Newtownbarry • Newtown Pery • Pearse cottage • Printing House TCD • Reginals Tower Waterford City • Richard Killeen • Rockfleet Castle • Royal Hospital • Semple Stadium • Slane Friary • South Bull Wall • St Enoch's • St Luke's Drumcondra • Stormont • The Gardiner Estate • Visitor centre Dunquin • Walls of Derry • Waterfont Hall Belfast • White Linen Hall Belfast • Youghal
• ISBN-10: 0-7171-5362-2 / 0717153622
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7171-5362-6 / 9780717153626