[Irish Georgian Society] Kennedy, Dorothy A.

The Big House in Irish Literature, A Study of Somerville & Ross, W.B. Yeats & Sean O’Casey. Dedicated to Maurice James Craig on his seventieth birthday.

Volume XXXII. Ireland, Irish Georgian Society, 1989. 21cm x 13.6cm. 30 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

Includes for Example: Maurice Craig, author of “The Volunteer Earl” (life of the Earl of Charlemont), “Dublin 1660-1860” and “Irish Book Bindings 1600-1800”, amongst many others/ One of the most significant factors of the culture of the Anglo-Irish: the Big House/ The powerful man and the house became syonymous/ Big House was the emblem of social order/ Edith Somerville ridicules the un-nativised Sir ‘Harl’d’ Burgrave at the expense of the English code of manners/ The Irish R.M. tales/ Major Yeates/ O’Casey, play on the drama of a Big House in 1940/ Yeats’ “Purgatory”, an element of the daemonic is resurrected in the evil of the old man/ Yeats interprets the tragedy of the house as that of the great brought low by the groom/father who squandered everything the Lady of the Big House had/ Somerville and Ross invoke the spirit of the house to create their novels on the decline of the Ascendancy/ Lennox Robinson’s play on the Big House claims of Lady Gregory that ‘she never condescends, she knows her humble neighbours well’/ Elizabeth Bowen, owner of Bowen’s Court/ Death of the Big House/ Death of culture/ O’Faolain’s “Midsummer Night’s Madness”/ Sean O’Casey, “Purple Dust: A Pastoral Frolic” etc.

Includes photographs of Drishane, Co. Cork/ Tyrone House, Co. Galway/ Ross, Co. Galway/ Bowen’s Court, Co. Cork/

• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 40419AB

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