Located on a prominent site overlooking Galway Bay in the west of Ireland, Tyrone House was once one of the countrys finest Georgian mansions. Dating from the 1770s, the building was home to generations of the French and St George families, a powerful symbol of their wealth and power. The interior of the house was lavishly decorated and furnished, beginning with the entrance hall, dominated by a life-size marble statue of Lord St George. But despite their advantages, over the course of the nineteenth century, the family went into irreversible decline and eventually forsook their great residence, which was destroyed by fire in 1920. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of the St Georges and their fate, embodied in what became of Tyrone House, which is today a little more than a gaunt ruin.

Tyrone House and the St George Family: The Story of an Anglo-Irish Family

Robert O'Byrne

History

Xlibris

After a fashion: A history of the Irish fashion industry

Business & Money

Economics

Town House

Physical description; xviii, 244 p. ; : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 33 cm. Subjects; Irish Georgian Society Anniversaries, etc. Architecture, Georgian Ireland. Architecture Conservation and restoration Ireland. Historic preservation Ireland. Cultural property Protection Ireland. Ireland Buildings, structures, etc. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated.

The Irish Georgian Society a Celebration

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Associated Editions

A unique collection of timeless English houses featuring original photography make this a book to treasure. Ever since the first milords embarked on a Grand Tour in the seventeenth century, the passion for developing collections has been a national trait of England. As a result, the country’s aristocratic palaces became repositories of treasure gathered from around the globe. But so too, thanks to the spread of an Empire providing goods from across the globe, did almost every residence in England. Romantic English Homes features 13 such houses, the majority never before photographed. Large or small, old or new, they all convey an impression of massed objects intentionally mingling styles and tastes, the classical placed next to the gothic, tartan pattern competing with floral print. Decorated with defiant eclecticism, the buildings featured here, brought to you by Robert O’Byrne, indicate that although the Empire may have gone, the English love of collecting remains as strong as ever. Criss-crossing the country, from Dorset, Devon and Cornwall to East Anglia and Suffolk, from London to Lancashire and Shropshire, it is both the romantic timelessness of these properties and their many-layered appearance that makes them so alluring.

Romantic English Homes

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