In 1801, Valentine Lawless, the 2nd Lord Cloncurry, was released from the Tower of London and started furnishing his new mansion in Kildare. Two hundred and one years later, as Peter Pearson recounts, Lyons House has been awarded the Europa Nostra Heritage Award in recognition of its glorious recreation by Dr Tony Ryan
Peter Pearson discusses the skillful painting techniques employed by Michael Dillon, Jane Willoughby and Patrick Fitzgerald, practitioners of an art form that began with cave painting
Peter Pearson outlines the history of the former City Assembly House on Dublin’s South William Street, now the flagship of the Irish Georgian Society
Peater Pearson visits Waterford’s Medieval Museum which completes the trilogy of cultural venues celebrating the historic city’s material culture
Isabella Evangelisti reports on Peter Pearson’s views of Dublin on exhibition at the James Joyce Centre in April, which capture his regard for the city in all its aspects.
In the 1800s The MacMurrough Kavanaghs of Borris embarked on a lavish building programme that transformed their 18th century mansion into a Tudor revival showpiece. Peter Pearson views the more recent restoration of Borris House, Co Carlow
Peter Pearson welcomes a new chapter in the management of Johnstown Castle, County Wexford
Peter Pearson makes a plea for re-roofing Kilmacurragh, the Queen Anne house set in an arcadian parkland in County Wicklow