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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

🚨 Last Chance! 🚨 Tickets for ‘Country house collections: Care, digitisation and best practice’ are almost gone! Limited availability, secure your place now! Hosted by the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates and the Heritage Council.

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

www.eventbrite.ie/e/country-ho... Country house collections: Care, digitisation and best practice 🗓️ Friday, 7 November 2025 📍 John Paul II Library, Maynooth University 🎟️ This free event is now open on Eventbrite — places are limited, book early to avoid disappointment!

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IHSA2026 @ihsa2026.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📣 We’re excited to announce that the 77th Irish History Students’ Association (IHSA) Conference will take place on 28 February 2026 at Maynooth University!

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

We’re thrilled to share that our Assistant Director, Dr Ciarán Reilly, along with Elaine Bean of MU Library, has received the Vice President’s Award for the Maynooth Through the Ages series.

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

We are delighted to congratulate our Director, Professor Terence Dooley, on his formal admission to the Royal Irish Academy. This prestigious recognition honours Professor Dooley’s exceptional contribution to Irish historical scholarship, particularly in the field of country house studies.

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Royal Irish Academy @ria.ie · 23/05/2025

This afternoon, 28 distinguished individuals were formally admitted as members of the RIA, following their recent election, in recognition of their outstanding achievements across the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and public service. www.ria.ie/2025/05/22/2... #RIAAdmittanceDay

A group of individuals in graduation robes and caps, smiling and posing for a photo after their ceremony

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Finally, Ciarán Reilly discusses ‘The Irish Country House and the Great Famime’ #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Terence Dooley speaks on the future of research in the field of country house studies! #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Georgina Laragy closes the session with ‘Suicide in the country house in 19th- and 20th-century Ireland’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Up next, Louise Calf discusses ‘Backstage at the country house: The construction and management of Chatsworth’s theatre, 1895–1902’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Fergal Browne opens session four with ‘The two ‘lives’ of Ballintober’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Kevin James rounds out the session with ‘20th-century incarnations of Duff House, Scotland, 1906–1990’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Alyssa Myers follows with ‘Comfort and convalescence in the 18th-century suburban London villa’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Daniel Watkins opens session three with ‘Anthony Salvin’s great kitchen at Alnwick Castle’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Hélène Bremer wraps up the session with a look at ‘The Ginkel family: two castles, one household?’ #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Elizabeth Macknight examining ‘The provisioning of estates or estates that provisioned?’ #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Jon Stobart kick started session two with ‘Everyday lives: servants in the Georgian country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Fiona White rounds off the session with ‘Space, order and commemoration: the built heritage of Moore Hall demesne’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Jeremy Hill follows with ‘Tobar na gé and a light-bulb moment at Monksgrange’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Session One of day two opens with Simone Donders ‘The Irish country house basement: a survey of floor plans’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Meg Nichols rounds off the last session for the day with ‘The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and the rescue of an American icon’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

David Murphy rounds off the session with ‘Sir William Johnson and his Johnson Hall in the Mohawk Valley’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Robert O’Byrne follows with ‘Diocesan domesticity: daily life in Cashel Palace during the episcopacy of Charles Agar, 1779–1801’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Adrian Tinniswood opens the Fourth Session with ‘To catch a thief: crime and the country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Meinir Moncrieffe rounds off the session with ‘Country house confinements: the forgotten histories of a female gentry underclass’. #HistoricHouseConference @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Angela Alexander opens Session Three with ‘Furnishing the Irish country house as a home in the early 19th century: inventories, letters and diaries’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Emma Arthur follows with ‘The bound music book and the everyday musical life of women in the country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Rachel Daley opens Session Two with ‘The ladies are not exactly excluded’: social networks through the Tatton Park Library’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Rounding off the panel, Kerry Bristol presents ‘Servants nowadays are so inconsistent as to behave well in one place and ill in another’: (mis)managing the eighteenth-century household at Nostell, West Yorkshire. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Paula Martin is up next with ‘Provisioning the country house: a case study of Saltram and Plymouth’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Session One opens with Elizabeth Jamieson’s ‘And who is to look after the horses, eh?: exploring the duties, accommodation, and wages of country house stable servants’. #HistoricHouseConference

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone to tomorrow’s 23rd Annual Historic Houses Conference: Everyday Life in the Country House at Renehan Hall, Maynooth University!

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Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates @historicirishho.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

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