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Linen Bleaching
Ulster’s linen industry Where to See
flourished thanks to the Georgian Ireland
expertise of Huguenot Dublin preserves many fine
weavers from France. Georgian terraces and public
The woven cloth was buildings such as the Custom
spread out in fields
or on river banks to House (see p92) and the Four
bleach it (see p272). Courts (p96). Around Dublin,
the grand houses at Castletown
(pp132–3), Russ borough and
Powerscourt (pp138–9) are
fascin ating reminders of the
The Classical urns lifestyle of the gentry. Other
on the roof conceal 18th-century country seats
chimneys.
open to the public include Emo
Court, Westport House (pp208–9)
The china closet was and Castle Coole (p276).
originally designed as
a bedroom.

Emo Court’s façade, with its plain
Ionic portico, is by James Gandon,
Irish Painting archi tect of many of Dublin’s public
Aristocratic patronage encouraged buildings (p257).
the development of an Irish school of
painting. This picture, by an unknown
artist, shows Leixlip Castle in an
idealized rural setting.

The hall ends in
a semi-circular
apse leading to
the saloon.
Entrance
Russborough House (p136) was
Casino Marino built in 1741 by Richard Castle.
Elegant niches with Classical busts
This frivolous summer house was built in the flank the grand fireplace in the
1760s for the first Earl of Charlemont on his estate just entrance hall.
north of Dublin (see p104). Palladian architecture of
this kind was popular among the Irish aristocracy,
who followed 18th-century English fashions.
The Irish
Guinness 1782 Parliament gains Volunteers, a 1798 Rebellion
Brewery greater degree of local militia of Wolfe Tone’s
Gate which pressed United Irishmen
independence from quashed
Westminster Parliament
for reform
1750 1760 1770 1780 1790
Custom House 1791 James Gandon’s 1795 Orange
Custom House Order formed by
1759 Arthur Guinness built in Dublin Ulster Protestants
buys the St James’s Gate 1793 Limited emancipation
Brewery in Dublin for Irish Catholics

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