The annual Journal of the Irish Georgian Society, 2024 (ed. David Fleming)
ISBN 978 1910140 536 144 pages (pb) 24x17cm 110 illus
This annual journal reflects the Irish Georgian Society’s present remit, which ranges from Georgian architecture to the entire spectrum of Ireland’s post-Medieval architecture and its special need for protection, interpretation, understanding and appreciation. The content of each volume is wide and varied, testimony to the diversity and scholarship of the series.
ESSAYS (alphabetically by author)
• Alice Jacob and the role of lacemaking in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement — Brigid Finnegan • Archbishop Dillon re-framed — William Laffan • ‘Little Eden in the wild’: Daniel O’Connell and the design of Derrynane — Victoria McCarthy • The Star Fort in the Phoenix Park — Edward McParland • Pomps of the town: the portraits of Charles Jervas (1675-1739) — Peter Murray
Texts and contexts: • Origins of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce — Barbara Freitag • A stonemason’s correspondence: the Darley letters, 1765 — Melanie Hayes
Book reviews: • "Dublin Castle: from fortress to palace – volume 1" • "Neglected Genius: Thomas Frye, an Irish artist in London" • "Edmund Sexten Pery: the politics of virtue and intrigue in eighteenth-century Ireland" • "James Gillray: a revolution in satire" • "Caricature and the Irish: satirical prints from the Library of Trinity College Dublin, c.1780-1830" • "Country House Collections: their lives and afterlives" • "Visitors to the Country House in Ireland and Britain: welcome and unwelcome" • "Speculative Minds in Georgian Ireland: novelty, experiment and widening horizons" • "The Building of Adare Manor: a family chronicle"
