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Below are Associated Edition's current titles:
Lime Works
using lime in traditional and new buildings
Patrick McAfee, commissioned by the Building Limes Forum Ireland
Lime Works is an easy-to-read, easy-to-understand and easy-to-use guide to
the many uses of lime in building, including repairs of historic structures
and new buildings.
Aimed at the Building Owner, the Practitioner (Stone-mason, Bricklayer and
Plasterer) and the Specifier, Lime Works is highly illustrated with many
contemporary images and line drawings, with numerous cross-references which
offer the reader easy access to all sections. Previous technical knowledge
is not necessary, as the question-and-answer format leads the reader through
the processes clearly and comprehensively.
The Author
Patrick McAfee is unrivalled in the depth of his experience and expertise in
working with, and teaching and writing about, the use of lime in Ireland. A
stonemason and instructor who travels the world, he is the author of Irish
Stone Walls and Stone Buildings.
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Mausolea Hibernica
Maurice Craig & Michael Craig
Written by distinguished architectural historian Maurice Craig and illustrated by his son, the artist Michael Craig, this ‘picture book’ (as described by the author) is a unique family collaboration examining 33 Mausolea in Ireland. Through text and image, the obscure, the unusual and the not quite forgotten are celebrated in all their decaying grandeur.
Maurice Craig’s short descriptive passages accompany each Mausoleum whilst Michael Craig’s unique black and white line drawings capture the exquisite architectural detail.
"‘Mausolea Hibernica’ is the collaboration of two very distinctive personalities, each a maestro, a collaboration enriched by the extraordinarily close bond between father and son." - Nicholas Robinson
The book will be available in three separate editions:
• Paperback (€25.00/£22.94 sterling + P&P)
• Signed Hardback (€50.00/£45.89 + P&P)
• Signed Hardback with framed signed print by Michael Craig*
(€200.00/£183.56 sterling + P&P)
*choice of prints shown above (from left to right: Knockbreda, Co. Down; Collbanagher, Co. Laois, Kilbride, Co. Wicklow)
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The Irish Postbox
Stephen Ferguson
Introduced to Ireland by the novelist, Anthony Trollope, the post box has been a silent and reliable servant of the public for over one hundred and fifty years now. From tentative and uncertain beginnings, it has become much more than a mere “letter receiver”, emerging as a cherished icon of functional design and a symbol of State authority, a point so well
appreciated by the men who changed its colour from red to green. Drawing on Post Office and other archive material the author, who is Assistant Secretary of An Post, charts the course of this transformation and assesses what the future may hold for that silent servant and symbol of the State that is the Irish post box.
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Sean Keating: In Focus
Dr Éimear O'Connor
This elegantly produced 64-page catalogue has been published to accompany the exhibition Sean Keating: In Focus at the Hunt Museum, Limerick. Written by Dr Éimear O'Connor the catalogue examines many of the most popular and several of the more obscure aspects of the artist’s career from 1907 to 1977 using iconic images alongside unfamiliar and previously unknown paintings and drawings.
Included in the exhibition and catalogue are works that have never before been exhibited in public. Also included are a biographical and working career timeline as well as a bibliography and suggested reading list.
"The primary aim of 'Keating in Focus' is to begin the process of re-appraising the artist's career and working methods in the light of current research by the author. The tantalising perspectives into previously unknown images and drawings, alongside the exhibition of ephemeral objects relating to Keating, will offer scholars and the public alike the opportunity to review and reconsider the artist in terms of his entire career rather than the specific, albeit significant, better known moments" - Dr Éimear O'Connor
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Dublin an Urban History
Niall McCullough
Although one of Europe's largest cites in the 18th century, Dublin has never been harvested for its potential contribution to the history of European urbanism. This book is about its physical structure - an analysis of the underlying skeleton that may release an understanding of its urban and architectural tradition.
"This is a must-have book for all those interested in the history and topography of the city of Dublin" - John Montague, Irish Arts Review
Dublin An Urban History is an exploration of the city plan over time. This lavishly illustrated and beautifully designed book by one of Ireland's leading architects, is a much expanded version of a book with a similar title published in c. 1989. This greatly improved new edition with over 350 illustrations and photographs is a fascinating insight into the development of the city and will appeal to all those interested in the architecture and history of Dublin.
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Dublin an Urban History
Niall McCullough
Signed limited edition in cloth with slipcase
This special edition of Dublin An Urban History is elegantly bound inblack cloth debossed with the plan of Dublin city on the front. Inside the covers of the book there are four beautiful pullout maps showing the development of the city over a 150-year period. The book is packaged in a matt silver-board slipcase.
Limited to 75 copies, each signed by hte author.
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The Provost's House Stables
Compiled by Trinity Irish Art Research Centre
This collection of essays, drawings and photographs was published to commemorate the official opening of TRIARC (Trinity Irish Art Research Centre) in Trinity College, Dublin. This beautifully designed volume explores the Provost's House and its immediate environs. The book features a preface by Desmond Fitzgerald, Knight of Glin and essays by Edward McParland, John Tuomey, Patricia McCarthy and Rachel Moss. The essays represent various periods in the building's history as well as examining visual culture in general.
"An elegant publication" - Peter Pearson, Irish Arts Review
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The Irish Georgian Society–A Celebration
Robert O'Byrne
(Finalist for 2008 Irish Print Awards)
Produced to celebrate the first fifty years of the Irish Georgian Society, this sumptuously illustrated volume recounts the Society’s beginnings in 1958 and the success it has since achieved through its dedication to the preservation of Ireland’s historic buildings. Founded by the Hon. Desmond Guinness and his wife, the late Mariga, the Irish Georgian Society was set up to campaign against the destruction of Ireland’s Georgian heritage, houses and streetscapes, and to promote what was then an under-appreciated aspect of Ireland’s architectural history and its cultural identity.
"...undoubtedly the most important book dealing with the conservation of the built heritage that has been published in Ireland." - Desmond FitzGerald, Knight of Glin.
This meticulously researched book, with its wealth of archival imagery and colour photographs, is an important record of the Society’s dramatic history and achievements, and a testimonial to a rich past that was so nearly lost.
The book includes notes, a bibliography, an index and there are several appendices.
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The Irish Georgian Society–A Celebration
Robert O'Byrne
Signed limited edition in cloth with slipcase
This special edition of The Irish Georgian Society – A Celebration is sumptuously bound in screen printed cloth with one quarter leather casing and a separate cloth covered slipcase embossed with the Georgian Society's logo. It was limited to 100 copies signed by the Author, Robert O'Byrne, the Society's founder The Hon. Desmond Guinness and the Society's President the Knight of Glin.
Available to buy directly from the Irish Georgian Society