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Belfast
Sapling's City Gateways bring together all our content relating to specific cities in the UK and Ireland. This Gateway features links to web sites that are relevant to Belfast and Northern Ireland, as well as details of local books, events and news.
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Sapling Bookstore (3)
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The Mountains of Mourne: A Celebration of a Place Apart
Dawson Stelfox (Foreword), David Kirk
(2002)
Hardcover - 160 pages
Appletree Press
ISBN: 086281846X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
The Mountains of Mourne captures the 'specialness' of this extraordinary part of Ireland which has fired the imaginations of poets, writers, artists, botanists, naturalists, hillwalkers and climbers the world over for generations. The author's stunning colour photographs and perceptive captions and decriptions are combined with carefully selected writings from a wide variety of people, not least the poet Percy French whose song 'The Mountains of Mourne' famously described how the Mournes gracefully 'sweep down to the sea'. Now, as the outstandingly beautiful region looks set to become a National Park, this book - the only one of its kind - provides a timely celebration of its ancient and striking hills and valleys.
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The Buildings of Ireland - North West Ulster
Alistair Rowan
(2002)
Hardcover - 564 pages
Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300096674
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Covering the Counties of Londonderry, Donegal, Fermanagh and Tyrone, the remote, rugged, rough country of North West Ulster possesses buildings as varied as its landscape. From its earliest centuries survive monuments of the Celtic church, in particular the sculptured cross slabs, high crosses and round towers, and remains of medieval tower houses. Fortified buildings from the seventeenth-century Plantation give way to the houses of a prosperous gentry of the less turbulent eighteenth century. The simplicity of Springhill, the riotous detail of Florence Court and the monumental classicism of Wyatt's Castle Coole demonstrate the range of domestic building in this period. Less known are the nineteenth-century railway stations, banks and factories. Churches are numerous and varied; from the primitive Protestant churches of the seventeenth century, to the simple Catholic halls of the early 1800s, and on to the Modernist but romantic lines of the 1960s St Aengus, Burt.
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Landscape Design in Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Mixing Foreign Trees with the Natives
Finola O'Kane
(2005)
Hardcover - 288 pages
Cork University Press
ISBN: 185918362X
Synopsis by Amazon.co.uk:
Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of French gardens to explore controversial lifestyles. This book seeks to explore how and why the landscapes were designed, who designed them, who used them, and for what purpose. Detailed studies of selected and connected gardens were used to explore these questions, and the smaller compass is hopefully countered by a more detailed context. Some of the gardens recreated retain much valuable evidence on the ground, while others have been pieced together from documentary sources, in particular the copious personal letters which survive. The existing gardens themselves are constantly in flux, as the source material grows and dies, or is more commonly axed by development. The disciplines of art history, architecture, engineering and planning are hauled informally together, to examine the role these disciplines have played, and should play, in creating and protecting the designed environment.
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