Spotlight on
- Lawrence Family Album
Big Houses of Ireland | Galway County Library
- Wildgoose Lodge
Big Houses of Ireland | Louth County Library
- Charlesfort Estate, Co. Meath
Big Houses of Ireland | Meath County Library
- Bessborough House and Estate, Cork
History & Heritage | Cork City Library
- The Tighe Family & Woodstock Estate
Big Houses of Ireland | Kilkenny County Library
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There are over 600 different flowering plants in the Burren in County Clare.
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In 1904 on the 16th of June Nora Barnacle and James Joyce, walked out together for the first time; and as a tribute Joyce set his masterpiece Ulysses on that day. This feature looks at the Ireland, and most specifically the Dublin, of 1904 to 2004.
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Terenure House, Seat of Bourne
Terenure House was a two storey 18th century house, originally the seat of the Deane family.
© Ireland Illustrated 1833 (From the Dublin and Irish Collections)
Portrait of Charles Tisdall
Ordnance Survey Map of 1837
Cover of Larkin's Engraved Map of Meath
Charles Tisdall's Account Books, May 1745
May 1745. Detail from account book showing purchase of slates and of portrait
Charles Tisdall's Account Books, March 1744
March 1744. Detail from account book showing payment to Michael Quin, quarryman
Charles Tisdall's Account Books, December 1746
December 1746. Detail from account book showing gift of carcass of beef
Side & rear view of Charlesfort
Side & rear view of Charlesfort, which underwent very much less modification than the front
reproduced courtesy of the Irish Architectural Archive
John Kelly: 'The ballad of P.W. Nally'
'The ballad of P.W. Nally is taken from the album "Songs of past and present 1", catalogue number Dreoilin 003 and appears here courtesy of Joe Byrne, Dreoilin.
Mayo County Library
Stephen Garvey: 'Back to Castlebar'
This clip is taken from "Back to Castlebar : a tribute to the late Stephen Garvey, and appears here courtesy of the Mayo Film & Video Club
Mayo County Library
stephen garvey
Mayo County Library
Sean Smyth: 'Jim McKillop's Reel'
'Jim McKillop's Reel' is taken from the album "The Blue Fiddle" by Sean Smyth, catalogue number LUNCD060, and appears here courtesy of Mulligan Records.
Mayo County Library
David Munnelly: 'Jock Cawley's' jigs
'Jock Cawley's' jigs is taken from the album "Swing" by David Munnelly, catalogue number DLCD002, and appears here courtesy of Hummingbird Records.
Mayo County Library
John & Kevin McHugh: 'Adam & Eve jigs'
'Adam & Eve jigs' is taken from the album "Fidiléirí, catalogue number Dreoilín 005, and appears here courtesy of Joe Byrne, Dreoilín
Mayo County Library
Emer Mayock: 'The fickle lad'
'The fickle lad' is taken from the album "Playground" by Emer Mayock, catalogue number Is Mise 001, and appears here courtesy of Is Mise.
Mayo County Library
Joe Byrne: Audio
This piece of music is taken from the album "Fíf agus Fideog", catalogue number Dreoilín 0011, and appears here courtesy of Joe Byrne, Dreoilín.
Mayo County Library
Ball, Francis Elrington, Howth And Its Owners, Dublin, University Press, 1917
Howth And Its Owners by Francis Elrington Ball is a detailed history of Howth Castle and its environs. The castle is the ancestral home of the Gaisford St. Lawrence family, the Earl Of Howth for hundreds of years.
Landscape and Heritage | Fingal County Library
Report on the estate of Charles Broderick Viscount Midleton Multi Page Sample
Report on the estate of Charles Broderick Viscount Midleton in the counties of Cork and Waterford by Edward Woollett Wilmott, Land Agent.
Cork City Library
Dempsey letter2
Letter from Patrick Dempsey, Riverbrin, St. Pauls, U.S.A., to 'My Dear John' (John Purcell). (26 October 1881) (Ryan-Purcell Estate Papers)
Cork City Library
Excerpt HistoryOfLandedEstatesInIreland
Clonbrock HistoryOfABigHouse