Castle Hyde: The changing fortunes of an Irish country house (130)

by Terence A.M. Dooley

Castle Hyde is one of the most important surviving country houses in the south of Ireland. This book traces its rise, fall, and rise again in the early twentieth century when it was impressively, restored by Michael Flatley.

62 pages, Paperback

Published August 31, 2017

About the author

Dr. Terence A.M. Dooley is an Irish historian and educator. He received his Ph.D. from Maynooth University (NUI Maynooth) in 2001 and was NUI Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2001-2003. He had previously earned an M.A. and a Higher Diploma in Education, also from NUI Maynooth.

Professor Dooley's areas of specialisation are Irish social and political history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, particularly the history of Irish country houses and the landed class; land and politics in independent Ireland; the working of the Irish Land Commission from 1881 to 1992; the revolutionary period 1916-23; and local history in Ireland. He teaches both undergraduate and postgraduate courses as a Senior Lecturer in the history department at NUI Maynooth.

Professor Dooley is also Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, which is under the auspices of NUI Maynooth’s history department.