Irish Houses & Gardens by Sean O'reilly

Irish Houses & Gardens by Sean O'reilly

Unique photographs recording the great houses of Ireland in their heyday.

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Seán O'Reilly studied in Dublin before lecturing on art and architectural history in a number of institutions throughout Ireland, most notably Trinity College, Dublin and the School of Architecture at University College Dublin (UCD). He worked with the Irish Architectural Archive in Dublin for more than a decade. He has written extensively on post-medieval architecture, especially on eighteenth-century houses and nineteenth-century churches, the latter an aspect of his doctoral study. He is the author of Irish Houses and Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life, published by Aurum. He is Director of the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland, formerly the Scottish Georgian Society, editor of the Irish Georgian Society's journal, Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, previously its Bulletin, and is at present making a special study of the development of Roman Catholic church architecture in the nineteenth-century. He continues to advise on historic buildings and to lecture in Ireland and Britain on areas of his special expertise. Recently he married and moved to Edinburgh.

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ISBN 13	9781845133511
ISBN 10	184513351X
Title	Irish Houses & Gardens
Author	Sean O'reilly
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Quarto Publishing PLC
Year published	2008-05-25
Number of pages	192
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