Wexford Castles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wexford Castles write by Billy Colfer. This book was released on 2013. Wexford Castles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Billy Colfer's Wexford Castles expands the Irish Landscapes series by taking a thematic approach, while still staying loyal to the central landscape focus. Rather than adapting a narrowly architectural approach, he situates these buildings in a superbly reconstructed historical, social, and cultural milieu. County Wexford has three strikingly different regions - the Anglo-Norman south, the hybridised middle and the Gaelic north - which render it a remarkable version in parvo of the wider island. Colfer's wide-angle lens takes in so much than the castles themselves, as he ranges widely and deeply in reading these striking buildings as texts, revealing the cultural assumptions and historical circumstances which shaped them. In this most cosmopolitan of counties, we range far and wide in search of the wide-spreading roots of its cultural landscape - from the Crusades and the Mani peninsula in Greece to the Bristol Channel, from Crac des Chevaliers to Westminster, from the Viking north and the cold Atlantic to the warm Mediterranean south. The book breaks new ground in exploring the long-run cultural shadow cast by the Anglo-Normans and their castles, as this appears in the Gothic Revival, in the poetry of Yeats and in the surprisingly profuse crop of Wexford historians and writers. While most books on a single architectural form can end up visually monotonous, creativity has been lavished on this volume in terms of keeping the images varied, fresh and constantly appealing. The result is a sympathetic and innovative treatment of the castles, understood not just as a mere architectural form, but as keys to unlocking the mentalitae of those who lived in them. Wexford Castles: landscape, context and settlement is a worthy conclusion of Billy's Colfer's superb trilogy of landscape studies."--Publisher's website.
History of the Town and County of Wexford
History of the Town and County of Wexford - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of the Town and County of Wexford write by Philip Herbert Hore. This book was released on 1906. History of the Town and County of Wexford available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Johnstown Castle
Johnstown Castle - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johnstown Castle write by Liam Gaul. This book was released on 2014-11-03. Johnstown Castle available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The harmony between great castles and their ornamental grounds is rarely seen in such perfect form as at Johnstown Castle. The gardens and grounds were designed by Daniel Robertson, of Powerscourt fame, assisted by Martin Day. The castle itself was home to two prominent Wexford families, the Esmondes and the Grogans, who have between them occupied the grounds from the fifteenth century right up to 1945. Today the castle is owned by Teagasc, the Agricultural and Food Development Authority, who manage the estate and provide access to the public. This book is the first published history of the castle, and in these pages author, historian and Wexford native Liam Gaul, explores the development of this imposing aspect of Wexford and national heritage from its earliest beginnings.
Johnstown Castle: A History
Johnstown Castle: A History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Johnstown Castle: A History write by Liam Gaul. This book was released on 2014-11-03. Johnstown Castle: A History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The harmony between great castles and their ornamental grounds is rarely seen in such perfect form as at Johnstown Castle. The gardens and grounds were designed by Daniel Robertson, of Powerscourt fame, assisted by Martin Day. The castle itself was home to two prominent Wexford families, the Esmondes and the Grogans, who have between them occupied the grounds from the fifteenth century right up to 1945. Today the castle is owned by Teagasc, the Agricultural and Food Development Authority, who manage the estate and provide access to the public. This book is the first published history of the castle, and in these pages author, historian and Wexford native Liam Gaul, explores the development of this imposing aspect of Wexford and national heritage from its earliest beginnings.
Castles in Ireland
Castles in Ireland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Castles in Ireland write by T.E. McNeill. This book was released on 2005-08-18. Castles in Ireland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the story of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. Dr McNeill weaves the evidence from the castles into the story of lordship and power in medieval Eire.
