Full Description
This book explores domestic life in Ireland from the earliest Neolithtic settlements through to the bespoke housing extensions of the twenty-first century. Twenty scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds look at design, decoration, material goods and the changing fashions, rituals and superstitions of daily life; rural and urban, male and female, rich and poor. Domestic life in Ireland is a serious work that offers fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in Ireland's past.
Contents
Preface (pp. vii-ix), Elizabeth FitzPatrick and James Kelly Introduction (pp. xi-xxvii), Toby Barnard The house and group identity in the Irish Neolithic (pp. 1-31), Jessica Smyth Domestic production and the political economy in prehistory: evidence from the Burren, Co. Clare (pp. 33-58), Carleton Jones, Olive Carey and Clare Hennigar Early medieval settlement enclosures in Ireland: dwellings, daily life and social identity (pp. 59-90), Aidan O'Sullivan and Triona Nicholl Pots on the hearth: domestic pottery in historic Ireland (pp. 91 - 113), Clare McCutcheon and Rosanne Meenan The evolution of the Irish tower-house as a domestic space (pp. 115 - 140), Rory Sherlock Moving towards the formal house: room usage in early modern Ireland (pp. 141-168), Jane Fenlon Keeping up appearances: redecorating the domestic interior in late eighteenth-century Dublin (pp.169-192), Conor Lucey Hearth and home: the vernacular house in Ireland from c. 1800 (pp. 193-215), Barry O'Reilly The provision of working- and lower-middle-class housing in late nineteenth-century urban Ireland (pp. 217-251), Frank Cullen Suburban and urban housing in the twentieth century (pp. 253-286), Ruth McManus The provision of rural local-authority housing and domestic space: a comparative North-South study, 1942 - 60 (pp. 287-309), Mary McCarthy Habitus: a social anthropology of the contemporary Dublin house extension (pp. 311-336), Michael Pike and Emmett Scanlon
