Irish rural interiors in art
"This volume offers a fascinating view of many aspects of Irish rural life from the eighteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Illustrated with more than 250 images, many of which have not been published before, the book evokes the hardships and celebrations of labourers and farmers, men and women, the old and the young as depicted in oil paintings, watercolours, drawings, prints, postcards and cartoons. Most of the illustrations show people engaged in indoor activities at home, but schools, shops, pubs and doctors' surgeries are also included. Drawing on extensive knowledge of the material culture of rural life Claudia Kinmonth presents a new social history of Irish country people."
Print Book, English, ©2006
Yale University Press, New Haven [Conn.], ©2006