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Author: Tarquin Blake
Publisher: Collins Books
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848892781
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA stunning collection of photographs of abandoned Irish country mansions, offering a glimpse into what were some of Ireland's most distinguished homes.
Author: Michael Kerrigan
Publisher:
Published: 2025-06-14
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781838865221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBuilt to last, built to impress, built with style and grandeur - it is all the more remarkable when the most ostentatious of buildings fall into disrepair and become ruins. From imperial residences and aristocratic estates to hotels and urban mansions, Abandoned Palaces tells the stories behind dilapidated structures from all around the world. From ancient Roman villas to the French colonial hill station in Cambodia that was one of the final refuges of the Khmer Rouge, the book charts the fascinating decline of what were once the homes and holiday resorts of the most wealthy. Ranging from crumbling hotels in the Catskill Mountains or in Mozambique to grand mansions in Taiwan, and from an unfinished Elizabethan summerhouse to a modern megalomaniac's estate too expensive ever to be completed, the reasons for the abandonment of these buildings include politics, bankruptcy, personal tragedies, natural and man-made disasters, as well as changing tastes and fashions. With 150 outstanding colour photographs exploring more than 100 hauntingly beautiful locations, Abandoned Palaces is a brilliant and moving pictorial examination of worlds we have left behind.
Author: Tarquin Blake
Publisher: Abandoned Ireland
Published: 2017-09-15
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848893221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the success of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Tarquin Blake documents the crumbling ruins of more forgotten stately homes, such as Elsinore House in County Sligo, where a childhood ghostly encounter inspired a lifelong fascination with the paranormal in W. B. Yeats. The Great Famine triggered a change of fortune for Ireland's landlords: starving, penniless tenants could no longer pay rent and the landowners' luxurious lifestyles went into decline. Later, the Land Acts transferred land into the ownership of tenant farmers and, with their rental income removed, many landlords locked up and left, never to return. Others frittered away the family fortune trying to maintain a luxurious lifestyle. During the War of Independence and Civil War, country houses became a target for the IRA and many were burned. For the remainder of the twentieth century, the increasing expense of maintenance made these opulent houses unviable and hundreds fell into hopeless dereliction. Beautiful, haunting images accompany the histories of the houses and their occupants, to tell a fascinating story of troubled times and private hardships.
Author: Tarquin Blake
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848892231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis latest book from Tarquin Blake delves into the world of Irish ghosts, vampires, witches, werewolves, and other spectral tales. Collating the ghost stories with powerful images of where these stories played out, Haunted Ireland reveals an engrossing catalogue of tales of the unexplained, the spooky unknown, haunted caves, phantom ships, poltergeists, and many other strange tales. From the curse of Castlelyons in County Cork to Abhartach the vampire dwarf of County Derry, from the Coonian Poltergeist in Fermanagh to the Werewolves of Ossory in Kilkeeny and Laois, these stories will amuse or raise the hairs on the back of your neck.
Author: Tarquin Blake
Publisher: Collins Books
Published: 2015-09-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848899100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book by Tarquin Blake documents eighty abandoned Church of Ireland churches, preserving a record of fragile religious ruins. Blake's haunting images of crumbling ruins and history of the churches tell another fascinating story of troubled times.
Author: David Creedon
Publisher: Collins
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848891579
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new paperback edition of these critically acclaimed and haunting photographs of the abandoned homes of Ireland.
Author: Brian Innes
Publisher: Amber Books Ltd
Published: 2012-07-18
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 190827395X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe History of Torture tells the complete story of torture, from its earliest uses right up to the present day, from the tools and techniques used, to the campaigns to abolish its use.
Author: Robert O'Byrne
Publisher: CICO Books
Published: 2019-02-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782496861
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGo on a journey with Robert O’Byrne as he brings fascinating Irish ruins to life. Fantastical, often whimsical, and frequently quirky, these atmospheric ruins are beautifully photographed and paired with fascinating text by Robert O’Byrne. Born out of Robert’s hugely popular blog, The Irish Aesthete, there are Medieval castles, Georgian mansions, Victorian lodges, and a myriad of other buildings, many never previously published. Robert focuses on a mixture of exteriors and interiors in varying stages of decay, on architectural details, and entire scenarios. Accompanying texts tell of the Regency siblings who squandered their entire fortune on gambling and carousing, of an Anglo-Norman heiress who pitched her husband out the window on their wedding night, and of the landlord who liked to walk around naked and whose wife made him carry a cowbell to warn housemaids of his approach. Arranged by the country’s four provinces, the diverse ruins featured offer a unique insight into Ireland and an exploration of her many styles of historic architecture.
Author: Ciaràn Fahey
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02-26
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9783814802084
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Kerrigan
Publisher: Abandoned
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781782745495
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title explores more than 100 bunkers, pillboxes, submarine bases, forts, and gun emplacements from the North Sea to Okinawa. Included are defensive structures, such as the Maginot Line on France's eastern border with Germany, Germany's own western and eastern border defences, and the Atlantic Wall, the German-built bunkers and pillboxes on the coast from Denmark down to Brittany.
