Andrew Tierney is a researcher in architectural history at Trinity College, Dublin.
"[T]his excellent volume...covers three counties, Kildare, Laois
and Offaly, all on the western borderlands of the medieval English
pale of settlement."—Simon Heffer, The Daily Telegraph
“Like the best of Pevsner authors, Tierney understands
the immutable bond between landscape from
architecture. We learn of the ancient timber
tracks across the bogs, the canal routes that linked Dublin
with the Shannon, and the now rapidly vanishing concrete
cooling towers of state-sponsored peat
electricity generation – all part of an enmeshed entity
of landscape and human endeavour that the author explores
with great sensitively and vivid description” —Richard Butler,
Rural History
“Central Leinster is the fifth volume in the Ireland series
and covers an area where many of the Ireland’s most rewarding and
distinctive buildings are found” — Ger Scully, The Tribune
“[An] essential addition to the library of anyone interested in the
architecture of Ireland, should be compulsory reading for
local planners and richly deserves a place in the glove compartment
of motoring locals or visitors”—John Coleman, Ancient Monuments
Society
“[A]lmost every page yields at least one curiosity, whether it be
the monumental pre-Catholic Emancipation mausoleum to the Grace
family in Aries, County Laois, or an 18th-century brick eyecatcher
called Pigeon House in Nurney, County Kildare.”—Robert O’Byrne,
Apollo Magazine
“In common with the other volumes, Central Leinster is a superb
presentation of the formal architecture of the region…Those whose
interest is formal architecture will relish this book.”—Barry
O’Reilly, Vernacular Architecture
Shortlisted for the 2020 Colvin Prize by the Society of
Architectural Historians of Great Britain
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