Encyclopedia - Edward Lovett Pearce: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Lovett Pearce - Early Life
Edward Lovett Pearce was born in County Meath, the son of General Edward Pearce, who was a cousin of Sir John Vanbrugh. In that same year...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia - Country House
In Britain and Ireland, the term country house generally refers to a large house which was built on an agricultural estate as the private...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georgian Dublin: Encyclopedia Ii - Georgian Dublin - 18th Century Property Developers
While the rebuilding by the Wide Streets Commission fundamentally changed the streetscape in Dublin, a property boom led to additional bu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Cassels: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Cassels - Notable Works
Some of the finest of Cassels works in order of commencement are listed below. (Dates often vary from on source to the other) Richard Ca...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - Design Of The New Building
Pearce's design for the new Irish Houses of Parliament was revolutionary. The building was effectively semi-circular in shape, occupying ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - Palladio's Architecture
Buildings by Palladio himself are all in Venice and the Veneto. They include Villa Capra and Villa Badoer, as well as Santa Maria della S...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Vanbrugh: Encyclopedia Ii - John Vanbrugh - Public Life
John Vanbrugh - London. Vanbrugh's London career was diverse and varied, comprising playwriting, architectural design, and attempts to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Irish People: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Irish People - Art
Main list of visual artists: List of Irish artists List of Irish people - Architecture. Eileen Gray James Hoban, designer of White Hou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - Palladio's Architecture
Buildings by Palladio himself are all iin Venice and the Veneto. They include Villa Capra and Villa Badoer, as well as Santa Maria della ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Defining The Country House
Subject to qualifications which are discussed below, a country house will once have been the centrepiece of an agricultural estate large ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - English Palladian Revival Neo-palladian
The baroque style, popular in Europe, was never truly to the English taste. It was quickly superseded when, in the first quarter of the 1...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Who Built The Houses, And Why
The architectural historian Mark Girouard argues in Life in the English Country House, that country houses were essentially "power houses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Richard Cassels: Encyclopedia Ii - Richard Cassels - Early Work
Richard Cassels, who originally trained as an engineer, came to Ireland in 1728 at the behest of Sir Gustavus Hume of County Fermanagh to...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Vanbrugh: Encyclopedia Ii - John Vanbrugh - Legacy
Vanbrugh is remembered today for his vast contribution to British culture, theatre, and architecture. An immediate dramatic legacy was fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Country House In Recent Years
At some point in recent decades—perhaps after the exhibition, The Destruction of the Country House, at the Victoria and Albert Museum i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - North American Palladianism
The amateur architect Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) once referred to Palladio's "I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura" as his bible. Jeffer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Palladian Architecture: Encyclopedia Ii - Palladian Architecture - Irish Palladianism
During the Palladian revival period in Ireland, even quite modest mansions were cast in a neo-Palladian mould. Palladian architecture in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Georgian Dublin: Encyclopedia Ii - Georgian Dublin - Dublin's Development
Dublin was for much of its existence a mediæval city, marked by the existence of a particular style of buildings, built on narrow windin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - The Dáil Choses A Different Home
For whatever reason however the 'Bank of Ireland' as it was generally called, remained untouched. When in 1919, Irish republican MPs elec...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Decline Of The Country House
The decline of the English country house began during the Agricultural Depression of the 1870s and was dramatically accelerated by World ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Country House In Recent Years
At some point in recent decades—perhaps after the exhibition, The Destruction of the Country House, at the Victoria and Albert Museum i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Life In The Country House
Country house - Social structures. The country house was the centre of its own world, providing employment to literally hundreds of peo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - The Architectural History Of The Country House
The headings in this section are merely intended to provide a rough indication of the main periods in the architectural history of the co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Who Built The Houses And Why
The architectural historian Mark Girouard argues in Life in the English Country House, that country houses were essentially "power houses...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Vanbrugh: Encyclopedia Ii - John Vanbrugh - Political Activism And The Bastille
From 1686, Vanbrugh was working undercover, playing a role in bringing about the armed invasion by William of Orange, the deposition of J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Country House: Encyclopedia Ii - Country House - Outside England
Welsh country houses were perhaps only different from their English counterparts in minor ways, but Scottish, Irish, and Continental Euro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - Plans For The New Building
The house was in a dilapidated state, allegedly haunted and unfit for parliamentary use. In 1727 parliament voted to spend £6,000 on the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Vanbrugh: Encyclopedia Ii - John Vanbrugh - Early Life
Vanbrugh was born in London, and grew up in Chester, where the family had been driven by the major outbreak of the plague in London in 16...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - After 1800: From A Parliament To A Bank
The Irish House of Lords chamber Formerly the bank boardroom, it is now used for recitals and book launches. The display in the picture...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - The Continuing Symbolism Of The Old Irish Houses Of Parliament
From the 1830s under Daniel O'Connell, generations of leaders campaigned for the creation of a new Irish parliament, convinced that the A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - Public Ceremonial In The Irish Houses Of Parliament
Much of the public ceremonial in the Irish Houses of Parliament mirrored that of the British House of Parliament. Sessions were formally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Irish Houses Of Parliament: Encyclopedia Ii - Irish Houses Of Parliament - Pearce's Design Copied In The Us Capitol And British Museum
Pearce's revolutionary designs came to be studied and copied both at home and abroad. The Viceregal Apartments in Dublin Castle copied hi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Lovett Pearce: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Lovett Pearce - Legacy
Following the acclaim given to the new Parliament building, the structure was near enough completed in 1731 for Parliament to be held the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Lovett Pearce: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Lovett Pearce - Castletown
Castletown is the largest and one of the most important country houses in Ireland, it also claims to be the house which introduced Pallad...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edward Lovett Pearce: Encyclopedia Ii - Edward Lovett Pearce - Irish Houses Of Parliament
In 1727 Pearce was elected Member of Parliament for Ratoath in County Meath, no doubt assisted by his patron Speaker Connoly, for whom he...   » Read the article