{"id":13136,"date":"2022-04-07T13:14:01","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.historyextra.com\/?p=205616"},"modified":"2022-04-07T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T11:32:08","slug":"burning-down-irelands-stately-homes","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbchistory\/rss_feed\/burning-down-irelands-stately-homes\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning down Ireland\u2019s stately homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"><\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Ellie Cawthorne\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Thursday, 07 April 2022 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"no-tts wp-block-separator\"\/><?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" standalone=\"yes\"?>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>Professor Terence Dooley, author of <em>Burning the Big House<\/em>, tells Ellie Cawthorne why so many of Ireland\u2019s grand homes were subjected to arson during the early 20th century, revealing a complex web of disputes over land, protests against imperialism and IRA reprisals.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"&quot;wp-audio-shortcode&quot;\" id=\"&quot;audio-205616-1&quot;\" preload=\"&quot;none&quot;\" style=\"&quot;width:\" controls=\"&quot;controls&quot;\"><source type=\"&quot;audio\/mpeg&quot;\" src=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Burning_irish_stately_homes-cdf139e.mp3?_=1&quot;\"\/><a href=\"&quot;https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Burning_irish_stately_homes-cdf139e.mp3&quot;\">https:\/\/media.immediate.co.uk\/volatile\/sites\/7\/2022\/04\/Burning_irish_stately_homes-cdf139e.mp3<\/a><\/audio><p><strong>Terence Dooley is the author of <em>Burning the Big House: The Story of the Irish Country House in a Time of War and Revolution<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2022)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><li><a href=\"\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/burning-the-big-house-the-story-of-the-irish-country-house-in-a-time-of-war-and-revolution\/9780300260748&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;nofollow noopener noreferrer\" noopener=\"\" noreferrer=\"\"><strong>Buy now on Bookshop.org<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Burning-Big-House-Country-Revolution\/dp\/0300260741\/?tag=bbchistory045-21&amp;ascsubtag=historyextra-0&quot;\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;sponsored&quot; 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