| Contents |
Introduction: species of domestic spaces / Conor Lucey -- 1. Brought to bed: the spaces and material culture of the lying-in / Emma O'Toole -- 2. A male domain? The dining room reconsidered / Patricia McCarthy -- 3. Fashioning, fitting-out and functionality in the aristocratic town house: private convenience and public concerns / Melanie Hayes -- 4. The merchant house in eighteenth-century Drogheda / Aisling Durkan -- 5. 'Baubles for boudoirs' or 'an article of such universal consumption': ceramics in the Irish home, 1730-1840 / Toby Barnard -- 6. Communality and privacy in one- or two-roomed homes before 1830 / Claudia Kinmonth -- 7. Entertaining royalty after the Union: space, decoration and performance in Charleville Castle, Co. Offaly, 1809 / Judith Hill -- 8. 'A taste for building': domestic space in elite female correspondence / Priscilla Sonnier -- 9. Single lives, single houses / Conor Lucey. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN | 9781801510264 |
| ISBN | 1801510261 |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
