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Total number of records: 633

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Books and printed items603
Archives20
Indexes8
Textiles2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection154
English Literature53
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History53
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections17
Herbert Read Collection17
Quaker Collection15
Cookery Collection14
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman5
Liddle Collection5

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monuments53
historic buildings32
architecture, georgian31
decorative arts29
english literature18
english poetry16
furniture13
irish question9
english in ireland8
country homes7

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Ireland575
Great Britain149
Northern Ireland24
Dublin (Ireland)18
England11
Scotland11
Dublin6
Wales4
Belfast (Northern Ireland)3
France3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)100
Irish Georgian Society54
Beeverell, James26
Leland, Thomas (1722-1785)16
Hall, Mrs S C (1800-1881)14
Hughes, William (1817-1876)13
Great Britain. Parliament12
Hall, S C (1800-1889)12
Hamilton, N E S A (1915)12
Hamilton, N. E. S. A12

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From 1800174
From 1900202
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Up to 1899170
Up to 1999204
Up to latest30

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The lost houses of Ireland

MacDonnell, Randal; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

2002

Includes bibliographical references (page 231) and index. Ballynegall -- Bermingham House -- Blarney Castle -- Borris House -- Castle MacGarrett -- Clonalis -- Dromoland Castle -- French Park -- Gay...

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The New Irish journal of information for the people : forming a national library of useful knowledge connected with the history, antiquities, and scenery of Ireland: with numerous original legends and stories (written expressly for this work)

Hall, Mrs S C (1800-1881); Carleton, William (1794-1869); Doyle, Martin (1787?-1875); Petrie, George (1790-1866)

1842

A re-issue of the 52 no. of the Irish penny journal.

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The political anatomy of Ireland : with the establishment for that kingdom when the late Duke of Ormond was lord lieutenant, taken from the records. To which is added Verbum sapienti, or, An account of the wealth and expences of England, and the method of raising taxes in the most equal manner

Petty, Sir William (1623-1687); Petty, Sir William (1623-1687); Tate, Nahum (1652-1715)

1691

Dedication [by the editor] signed: N. Tate. "The following Treatise of Sir William Petty's Political Anatomy of Ireland is Printed after a Copy Transcribed from the Original, writ by the Author's ow...

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The antiquities of Ireland (v.1)

Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Ledwich, Edward (1738-1823)

1791-95

Engr. t.-p. Plates dated 1791-95. Grose's name does not appear on t.-p. of v. 2. After the death of Grose, who had "written and printed but seven pages of description," the work was completed by Edw...

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The antiquities of Ireland (v.2)

Grose, Francis (1731?-1791); Ledwich, Edward (1738-1823)

1791-95

Engr. t.-p. Plates dated 1791-95. Grose's name does not appear on t.-p. of v. 2. After the death of Grose, who had "written and printed but seven pages of description," the work was completed by Edw...

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Great Irish households : inventories from the long eighteenth century

Murdoch, T V; Cunningham, Jessica; Campion, Rebecca; Joyce, Edmund; Cobbe, Alec; Adamson, John (1949-)

2022

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Walker's Hibernian magazine : or, Compendium of entertaining knowledge

Feb. 1806; Sep. 1806 Title varies: 1771-85, The Hibernian magazine..., 1786-1811, Walker's Hibernian magazine ... Includes songs with music. "It is the erroneously stated in the vol. for 1796 th...

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Drawings from the Irish Architectural Archive

Griffin, David J; Lincoln, Simon; Robinson, Nicholas K; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Irish Architectural Archive

1993

Includes index.

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