For over a hundred years Country Life has been publishing definitive articles on the country houses of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with specially commissioned photography by some of the century’s pre-eminent architectural photographers. Taken predominantly on glass plate negatives, the beauty and comprehensiveness of these illustrations is without equal, making the Country Life photographic archive a truly amazing resource. After the turn of the twentieth century, the growing interest in Georgian architecture led Country Life’s writers to explore the unique to the development of the eighteenth-century house contribution made by Irish architects and craftsmen. However, as the pace of loss and destruction of so many houses quickened in the middle of the century, the magazine’s photographs became an increasingly important, sometimes unique, record of what had gone. Here Seán O’Reilly, one of Ireland’s leading architectural historians, has selected two hundred of the archive’s most outstanding photographs and provided the essential historical background required for an appreciation of some of Ireland’s greatest buildings, making this book not only an important survey, but also a portfolio of classic photographs of unrivalled beauty and significance.

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