ISBN:
978-1-84682-806-5
Language:
English
Pages:
xi, 308 Seiten :
,
Illustrationen ;
,
24 cm.
DDC:
790.0941
Keywords:
Great Britain / Social life and customs / Congresses
;
Ireland / Social life and customs / Congresses
;
Leisure / Great Britain / History / Congresses
;
Recreation / Great Britain / History / Congresses
;
Leisure / Ireland / History / Congresses
;
Recreation / Ireland / History / Congresses
;
Country homes / Great Britain / History / Congresses
;
Country homes / Ireland / History / Congresses
;
Sports / Great Britain / History / Congresses
;
Sports / Ireland / History / Congresses
;
Country homes
;
Leisure
;
Manners and customs
;
Recreation
;
Sports
;
Great Britain
;
Ireland
;
History
;
Konferenzschrift 2018
Abstract:
Sir Shane Leslie once wrote that 'Country life was entirely organized to give nobility and gentry and demi-gentry a good time.'0Throughout Ireland and Britain the country house was a centre of hospitality, entertainment and leisure, with the hosting of house parties, soirees and balls. Pastimes included photography, painting, astronomy and taxidermy. Outdoors the parkland was used for a variety of sporting activities including archery, cricket, croquet and shooting, as well as local sports events, and beyond the demesne activities included hunting, horse racing and yachting. In Ireland demesne lands were developed as golf courses and estates offered land to the nationalist-dominated Gaelic Athletic Association for football and hurling.0This volume provides fresh and original insights into how leisure and sport underpinned the social hierarchy of country houses and their local communities in Ireland and Britain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Note:
This volume is based on a series of presentations at the Sixteenth Annual Historic Houses Conference, held under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates at Maynooth University in 2018, entitled 'Sport and leisure and the country house'.--Page xi. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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