'Declare a capital offence': a retrospective view of Irish country houses and villas in the rural and urban landscape

Author:
R T Campbell
Published:
1996
Abstract:
This thesis examines the spatial development, symbolism and changing morphology of the country house in the rural environment and shows how this powerful elite socio-residential form influenced the emergence of a rash of smaller derivatives called villas on the outskirts of Irish towns and cities.
Source description:
Unpublished PhD Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, (document description unavailable).
Dataset:
BIAB
Classifications:
9J, 9G, 9D

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