This major illustrated study investigates farmhouse and cabin furniture from all over the island of Ireland. It discusses the origins and evolution of useful objects, what materials were used and why, and how furniture made for small spaces, often with renewable elements, was innate and expected. Encompassing three centuries, it illuminates a way of life that has almost vanished. It contributes as much to our knowledge of Ireland’s cultural history as to its history of furniture.

This is a is a substantially different book from Irish Country Furniture, 1700-1950, published by Yale UP in 1993 and reprinted several times. The new book now incorporates the findings of a lot of recent research. Many of the author's fieldwork photographs from the late 1980s, have been digitised and will now be published for the first time.  Reflecting the considerable addition of new material, the time scale is also broadened to include discussions of objects and interiors up to 2000.

With 556 pages including 120 new colour illustrations, this beautiful book represents extraordinary value.