Patrick Cosgrove, Terence Dooley, and Karol Mullaney-Dignam (eds), Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House, Dublin
The story of the Fitzgerald dynasty is, in many ways, the story of colonial Ireland: for almost 800 years, this family – whose spectacular estate at Maynooth stood literally and symbolically at the edge of Dublin’s “Pale” – rose and fell with revolutions and reforms of their country. It is the Fitzg...
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| Published in | Etudes irlandaises (Villaneuve-d'Ascq) Vol. 40-1; pp. 373 - 374 |
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| Format | Book Review Journal Article |
| Language | English |
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Presses universitaires de Caen
07.09.2015
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| Summary: | The story of the Fitzgerald dynasty is, in many ways, the story of colonial Ireland: for almost 800 years, this family – whose spectacular estate at Maynooth stood literally and symbolically at the edge of Dublin’s “Pale” – rose and fell with revolutions and reforms of their country. It is the Fitzgeralds’ central role in Irish history that Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House aims to capture. While the preface to ... |
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| ISSN: | 0183-973X 2259-8863 |
| DOI: | 10.4000/etudesirlandaises.4675 |