Main entry:

Gibney, Arthur, author.

Title & Author:

The building site in eighteenth-century Ireland / Arthur Gibney ; Livia Hurley & Edward McParland, editors.

Publication:

Dublin, Ireland : Four Courts Press, [2017]
©2017

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Based on the author's PhD thesis, Studies in eighteenth-century building history, Trinity College Dublin, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Organization and management -- Eighteenth-century building contracts -- Carpentry -- Joinery -- The timber trade -- Wall construction -- The introduction of brickwork -- Stone : its acquisition and use -- The roofing trades : the work of the slater and the plumber -- The glazier and the development of eighteenth-century window patterns -- Plastering and stuccowork -- Painting.

Summary:

This study by the late Arthur Gibney takes you among labourers, craftspeople, contractors, builders and designers as they populate the building sites of eighteenth-century Ireland. Gibney tells a story that has never been told so comprehensively before. What kind of contracts bound those involved? How much did it cost to bring a cargo of oak to the Dublin docks from Riga or Shillelagh - or of fir from Trondheim - and what kind of roof trusses or floor framing was it used for? What was distinctively Irish about these structural features? What did plumbers do? How did roofers choose between slates and shingles and pantiles, and how did this choice affect the profile of a roof? Based on extensive documentary research and on a lifetime of experience of building and conservation. Gibney takes the interested layperson, the student, the architect and the conservationist behind the façades to give us an understanding of paint colours such as Venetian red and Spanish brown, the manufacture of stucco, the variations of Irish, English and French glass, the composition of masonry walls, and much more, in our great legacy of Georgian buildings. Book jacket.

ISBN:

1846826381 (hardback)
9781846826382 (hardback)

Subject:

Building sites Ireland History 18th century.
Architecture Ireland History.
Chantiers de construction Irlande Histoire 18e siècle.
Architecture Irlande Histoire.
Architecture.
Building sites.
Economic history.
Architektur
Baustelle
Bauwesen
Bauwirtschaft
House and Home.
Ireland Economic conditions 18th century.
Irlande Conditions économiques 18e siècle.
Ireland.
Irland

Form/genre:

Theses.
History.

Added entries:

Hurley, Livia, editor.
McParland, Edward, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 299160
Call No.: BIB 245268
Status: Available