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📣 We’re excited to announce that the 77th Irish History Students’ Association (IHSA) Conference will take place on 28 February 2026 at Maynooth University!

We’re thrilled to share that our Assistant Director, Dr Ciarán Reilly, along with Elaine Bean of MU Library, has received the Vice President’s Award for the Maynooth Through the Ages series.

We are delighted to congratulate our Director, Professor Terence Dooley, on his formal admission to the Royal Irish Academy. This prestigious recognition honours Professor Dooley’s exceptional contribution to Irish historical scholarship, particularly in the field of country house studies.

This afternoon, 28 distinguished individuals were formally admitted as members of the RIA, following their recent election, in recognition of their outstanding achievements across the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and public service. www.ria.ie/2025/05/22/2... #RIAAdmittanceDay

Finally, Ciarán Reilly discusses ‘The Irish Country House and the Great Famime’ #HistoricHouseConference

Terence Dooley speaks on the future of research in the field of country house studies! #HistoricHouseConference

Mary Heffernan chairing the last panel of the day! #HistoricHouseConference

Georgina Laragy closes the session with ‘Suicide in the country house in 19th- and 20th-century Ireland’. #HistoricHouseConference

Up next, Louise Calf discusses ‘Backstage at the country house: The construction and management of Chatsworth’s theatre, 1895–1902’. #HistoricHouseConference

Fergal Browne opens session four with ‘The two ‘lives’ of Ballintober’. #HistoricHouseConference

Kevin James rounds out the session with ‘20th-century incarnations of Duff House, Scotland, 1906–1990’. #HistoricHouseConference

Alyssa Myers follows with ‘Comfort and convalescence in the 18th-century suburban London villa’. #HistoricHouseConference

Daniel Watkins opens session three with ‘Anthony Salvin’s great kitchen at Alnwick Castle’. #HistoricHouseConference

Hélène Bremer wraps up the session with a look at ‘The Ginkel family: two castles, one household?’ #HistoricHouseConference

Elizabeth Macknight examining ‘The provisioning of estates or estates that provisioned?’ #HistoricHouseConference

Jon Stobart kick started session two with ‘Everyday lives: servants in the Georgian country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

Fiona White rounds off the session with ‘Space, order and commemoration: the built heritage of Moore Hall demesne’. #HistoricHouseConference

Jeremy Hill follows with ‘Tobar na gé and a light-bulb moment at Monksgrange’. #HistoricHouseConference

Session One of day two opens with Simone Donders ‘The Irish country house basement: a survey of floor plans’. #HistoricHouseConference

Meg Nichols rounds off the last session for the day with ‘The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association and the rescue of an American icon’. #HistoricHouseConference

David Murphy rounds off the session with ‘Sir William Johnson and his Johnson Hall in the Mohawk Valley’. #HistoricHouseConference

Robert O’Byrne follows with ‘Diocesan domesticity: daily life in Cashel Palace during the episcopacy of Charles Agar, 1779–1801’. #HistoricHouseConference

Adrian Tinniswood opens the Fourth Session with ‘To catch a thief: crime and the country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

Meinir Moncrieffe rounds off the session with ‘Country house confinements: the forgotten histories of a female gentry underclass’. #HistoricHouseConference @ystadaucymru.bsky.social

Angela Alexander opens Session Three with ‘Furnishing the Irish country house as a home in the early 19th century: inventories, letters and diaries’. #HistoricHouseConference

Emma Arthur follows with ‘The bound music book and the everyday musical life of women in the country house’. #HistoricHouseConference

Rachel Daley opens Session Two with ‘The ladies are not exactly excluded’: social networks through the Tatton Park Library’. #HistoricHouseConference

All books on the country house just outside Renehan Hall! #HistoricHouseConference

Rounding off the panel, Kerry Bristol presents ‘Servants nowadays are so inconsistent as to behave well in one place and ill in another’: (mis)managing the eighteenth-century household at Nostell, West Yorkshire. #HistoricHouseConference

A full house here for our 23rd Annual Historic House Conference! #HistoricHouseConference

Paula Martin is up next with ‘Provisioning the country house: a case study of Saltram and Plymouth’. #HistoricHouseConference

Session One opens with Elizabeth Jamieson’s ‘And who is to look after the horses, eh?: exploring the duties, accommodation, and wages of country house stable servants’. #HistoricHouseConference

We’re looking forward to welcoming everyone to tomorrow’s 23rd Annual Historic Houses Conference: Everyday Life in the Country House at Renehan Hall, Maynooth University!

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