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Based at the Dept of History, Maynooth University, the CSHIHE aims to secure & enhance public appreciation of historic properties by supporting education, research and scholarly publication.

New publication by Oliver Whelan. Landlords and tenants in County Carlow, 1879–1960This book chronicles the ending of la...
10/06/2026

New publication by Oliver Whelan.

Landlords and tenants in County Carlow, 1879–1960

This book chronicles the ending of landlordism in Carlow. In the depression of the late 1870s tenants were supported by town merchants in their efforts to secure rent reductions from landlords while the Irish Parliamentary Party, led by Parnell, helped by exerting pressure on the British government. In 1881, Gladstone’s government established land courts to adjudicate on rents and provided loans to tenants to buy their holdings. Under the Wyndham Act of 1903 most landlords sold to their tenants. In the 1920s the Free State compulsorily acquired the holdings of landlords who had not sold, and established the tenants as freeholders. The plight of evicted tenants and of small uneconomic farmers proved intractable. As the economy developed viable farms became bigger and most smallholders migrated to towns or emigrated. By the 1960s land division by the government was completed and only two big houses of the former landlords, Borris and Lisnavagh, remained in family hands.

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Day two session 4 Terence Dooley Changing Boundaries: The Big House ...
13/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Day two session 4

Terence Dooley Changing Boundaries: The Big House and its Traumatic Experiences’ with the Land Commission

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Day two session 3 Elizabeth Knowles Ardtully 1849-1921: Fragments fr...
12/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Day two session 3

Elizabeth Knowles Ardtully 1849-1921: Fragments from the diaspora

Rachel Daley Inheriting the Grand Tour: Cultural Formation across Two Generations at Tatton Park

Jean Young ‘In Consideration of Marriage’: A Case Study of the Evolution of Strict Settlement in 17th-century Ireland

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Day two session 2 lan d’Alton Circles and Cycles of Death and Resurr...
12/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Day two session 2

lan d’Alton Circles and Cycles of Death and Resurrection in Lennox Robinson’s Plays The Big House (1926) and Killycreggs in Twilight (1937)

Úna Kavanagh An Examination of the Clonbrock Photographic Collection and Estate Papers and What they show of Life-cycles on an Estate

Terence Dooley, Christopher Ridgway, and Ciarán Reilly welcoming Ciara Carberry to our 24th Annual Historic House Intern...
12/05/2026

Terence Dooley, Christopher Ridgway, and Ciarán Reilly welcoming Ciara Carberry to our 24th Annual Historic House International Conference.

We were delighted that Ciara delivered the opening address to launch this year’s conference.

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Day two session 1 David Hicks Public Piety and Scandalous Secrets of...
12/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Day two session 1

David Hicks Public Piety and Scandalous Secrets of an Irish Landed Family

Lucy Moreau Beyond the Drawing Room: Stables Sites of Life-cycle Transgression in Irish Big House Literature

Kristina Decker “I Hope she will Improve from your Advice’: Mary Delany Improves the Next Generation

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Last session of the day Day one session 6Christenher Ridgway Changin...
11/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Last session of the day

Day one session 6

Christenher Ridgway Changing Rooms: Life-cycles of Historic House Interiors

24th Annual Historic House International Conference Day one session 5 Susan Byrne In her Own Words: Eleanor Cobbe Corbal...
11/05/2026

24th Annual Historic House International Conference

Day one session 5

Susan Byrne In her Own Words: Eleanor Cobbe Corbally at Newbridge House

Nicola Kelly Lives Less Ordinary: The Overend Women in Airfield

Ruth Larsen Ageing and Activism: The Role of Older Elite Women in Edwardian Philanthropy

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