The intellectual world of the country house in Ireland and Britain

Introduction / Vincent Comerford -- Historic houses and their associations / Ben Cowell -- The painted decorations in the long gallery at Castletown House: new light on the intellectual lives of Thomas and Louisa Conolly / Deirdre Cullen -- 'An effect rather than a reality'? The place of the country house in the Irish gentry's perception of their world / Ian d'Alton -- Mary Delany and the mental and creative world of Delville / Kristina Decker -- Frances Power Cobbe, daughter of the Irish country house / Cathal Dowd Smith -- Safe and unsafe houses: architecture, politics and the Irish cultural imagination / Roy Foster -- 'A persevering proclamation of gospel truth' : the 3rd earl of Roden and evangelical Christianity at Tollymore Park and Dundalk House, c.1820-70 / James Frazer -- Irish country house libraries and social change, 1650-1750 / Raymond Gillespie -- The Moore brothers and the library at Moore Hall: differing visions of its legacy in a new Ireland / Elizabeth Grubgeld -- An intergenerational chronicle: the library at Adare Manor, Co. Limerick / Anna-Maria Hajba -- Photographers and antiquarians in Paris: Goddard Orpen and Eugene Atget / Jeremy Hill -- From muniment room to online access: family and estate archives at Cowdray House, Knole, and Ham House / Elizabeth Jamieson -- Reading the eighteenth-century print room / Kate Retford -- The house of ideas / Christopher Ridgway -- The library at Annes Grove / Aileen Spitere.