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Prendergast, Patrick.

Ancestral interiors : photographs of the Irish country house / Patrick Prendergast ; by Desmond Fitzgerald. - Dublin : Irish Architectural Archive, 2010. - 136 p. : ill.

Published to coincide with an exhibition of selected photographs by Patrick Prendergast at the Irish Architectural Archive, 45 Merrion Square, Dublin 2 ... 10 June-9 Nov. 2010.

Includes bibliographical references.

Desmond Fitzgerald, knight of Glin, Foreword--William Laffan, Ancestral interiors--Photographs of the Irish country house--Portraits--Rural Ireland--Bibliography.

The photographs collected in this volume look at life in the Irish country house in the closing decades of the 20th century. The images take as their subject matter the very clutter which has been rigorously removed from sight in earlier photographs o Irish interiors.

ISBN: 9780951553671 (pbk.) : £20.00 9780951553671 (Paper)

Subjects--Personal Names:
Prendergast, Patrick--Exhibitions.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Country homes--Ireland--Pictorial works--Exhibitions
Interior decoration--Ireland--Pictorial works--Exhibitions
Architecture and Planning.

LC Class. No.: NA7337

Dewey Class. No.: 728.37094170222 PRE