acetylene, 138, 175–180, 200, 257

Adare Manor, 166, 168, 185–186, 200, 256–257

Alliance Electrical Company, 191, 193, 198

alternating current (AC) electricity supply, 181–182, 185–187

Anglo-Irish, xxiv, xxvii, 234, 251–252, 255

Anglo-Norman, xxiv

animal employment, 221

Annesley, 3rd earl of, 35, 104, 123, 134

Annesley, countess of, 142

anthracite, 68, 86, 93, 98, 109, 227

Arc light, 182–183, 198, 201

Argand gas-burners, 175

Argand oil lamp, 153–156

Argand, Francoise-Pierre Ami, 153

Argory, 63, 72, 107, 140, 161, 176–178, 200

Armfield turbine, 188

Armstrong, Sir Robert, 183

atmospheric engine, 218

Aynhoe Park ice house, 114, 125, 133

Baird, William, 78, 105, 227

Baked Alaska, 132

Ballyfin, 104, 141, 176

Ballywalter Park, xxiii, 235, 249

banana, 95, 98, 100–101, 104

barge transport, 166

barn thresher, 220–221, 223, 225, 227–229

basement furnace, 81

bathroom, 24, 190

beam engine, 205, 218–219

Beaufort, Captain (later Sir Francis), 212

Belfast and County Down Railway, 164

bell system, 197

Bellew hall luminaire, 155

Bellew kitchen works, 31, 35

Bellew, Christopher Dillon, 29

Bessborough, 16

Bessborough, earl of, 8

Biddulph, Assheton, 46

Biddulph, Colonel Middleton, 176

big house roofs, 4, 232

Birr Castle

electric lighting, 182–184

fire equipment, 52–53, 57

hoist, 17–18, 63, 67–68

ice house, 113, 122

spirits for ice workers, 127

turbine, 182–184

walled garden, 82–87

water heating, 30

water supplies, 3, 17–18, 52

bog reclamation, 205–206

boiler explosion, 230

bone grinding, 216, 248

bone meal, 230

brass hand lamps, 197

Brightside Foundry and Eng: Co., 96