This volume of Irish inventories is a welcome successor to Tessa Murdoch’s 2009 publication Noble Households: Eighteenth-century inventories of great English houses. In his Foreword, Toby Barnard (whose book Making the Grand Figure: Lives and possessions in Ireland, 1640–1770, published in 2004, did much to promote this topic in Ireland) acknowledges how this Irish project has been built on the pioneering studies of Peter Thornton and of John Cornforth (to whom Murdoch’s earlier volume was dedicated). He rightly observes that the archival record in Ireland is more patchy than in England, not least owing to the disastrous fire in the Four Courts building in Dublin in 1922. But house inventories do survive in various locations, and this is a very welcome harvest. Inventories from eighteen Irish houses are transcribed (the earlier English volume had nineteen). They include three Ormonde inventories, in Kilkenny Castle, Dublin, and in their London house; there are inventories from Lismore Castle, Killadoon, Carton House, Newbridge House and Borris House, and in the north Mount Stewart, Hillsborough Castle and Baronscourt – all residences of important families. These lists are supplemented with fifty-eight illustrations of houses, portraits and individual works of art that feature in the inventories. Like its predecessor, this collection is a cornucopia of information, and while its primary audience will be scholars and curators, there is plenty to be gleaned from the listings for anyone interested in historic interiors.