- 211 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book explores the everyday character and functions of domestic spaces in Georgian Ireland. While the design and decoration of the country pile and the aristocratic town house enjoys a long and distinguished literature, to date there has been no sustained examination of how rooms were habitually occupied and experienced, or how different social demographics— not least the burgeoning 'middling sorts'— might have informed approaches to spatial design and functionality. Drawing on recent pioneering research, the topics and themes addressed here range widely from comfort, privacy, and multiple occupancy to sociability, maternity, and piety. Focusing on how different species of domestic spaces were used and inhabited, from mansions and merchant houses to lodgings and farm house cabins, this book expands our understanding of house and home in Ireland in the long eighteenth century.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: species of domestic spaces
- 1. Brought to bed: the spaces and material cultureof the lying-in
- 2. A male domain? The dining room reconsidered
- 3. Fashioning, fitting-out and functionality in the aristocratic town house: private convenience and public concerns
- 4. The merchant house in eighteenth-century Drogheda
- 5. ‘Baubles for boudoirs’ or ‘an article of such universal consumption’: ceramics in the Irish home, 1730–1840
- 6. Communality and privacy in one- or two-roomed homes before 1830
- 7. Entertaining royalty after the Union: space, decoration and performance in Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly, 1809
- 8. ‘A taste for building’: domestic space in elite female correspondence
- 9. Single lives, single houses
- Index