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Great Irish Households 2022
Great Irish Households: Inventories from the Long Eighteenth Century is a 2022 scholarly volume that compiles transcripts of inventories from fourteen grand country estates, three Dublin town homes, and one London residence. It honors the legacy of the final Knight of Glin as a commemorative publication. The book serves as a companion to Noble Households: Eighteenth-Century Inventories of Great English Houses. These records, with only two exceptions previously published, cover the timeframe from 1702, the year William of Orange passed away, through 1821, the year George IV was crowned.
In 2003, Jane Fenlon, an expert on Irish art and architecture during the early modern era, expressed concern that inventories had been largely overlooked in research. She emphasized their significance beyond mere documentation of furnishings, noting they offer rich material for scholarly investigation. Fenlon 2003, introduction, p. 8. Unfortunately, as shown in Simon Swynfen Jervis’s work British and Irish inventories, many Irish household records remain unavailable in print. This volume helps address that gap by providing more transcripts of such documents. See Toby Barnard's foreword, pp. 11–12.
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- Cover artist
- Willem Van der Hagen
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- Publisher
- John Adamson
- ISBN
- 9781898565178
- Pages
- 436
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