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Estates and landed society in Galway / Patrick Melvin ; foreword by Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Dublin : Éamon de Búrca for Edmund Burke Publisher, 2012Copyright date: © text Patrick Melvin 2012; Edmund Burke PublisherDescription: xxvi, 484 pages : illustrations (black and white), 1 folded map (black and white) ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780946130474
  • 0946130477
Subject(s):
Contents:
Origin and establishment of estates -- Estates and estate management -- The social life of the gentry -- Marriage family and careers -- The gentry as landlords -- The county and local role of the gentry -- The gentry and politics -- Ideas of class and historical identity -- Review and retrospect
Summary: This book investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile - sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Origin and establishment of estates -- Estates and estate management -- The social life of the gentry -- Marriage family and careers -- The gentry as landlords -- The county and local role of the gentry -- The gentry and politics -- Ideas of class and historical identity -- Review and retrospect

This book investigates and describes the varied origins and foundation of estates and proprietors in Galway and how that process was affected by the political turmoils and transplantations of the 17th century. The aftermath of these turmoils in England and Ireland saw the establishment of a core number of successful estates founded largely by ambitious families able to trim their sails to changing times and opportunities. Alongside these estates there remained at the same time a fluctuating mass of smaller proprietors whose lands frequently fell to more able or business-like landowners. Penal laws and poor land quality resulted in exile - sometimes temporary - for many of the older Catholic landowners.

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