The Landed Gentry & Aristocracy of County Wicklow

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Author: Turtle Bunbury
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The Landed Gentry and Aristocracy of County Wicklow – Volume 1
Turtle Bunbury looks at nine of the most prominent landowning families in Co. Wicklow. Beautifully illustrated with many rare, carefully sourced photographs, Turtle begins with a colourful study of the Viscounts Powerscourt and their neighbours, the Earls of Meath and Wicklow. He then moves on to examine an array of fascinating characters including General Dennis from Baltinglass who commanded the artillery at El Alamein, Laurette Tighe who inspired Mary Shelly to write, as well as three different Erskine Childers. The Actons produced a botantical genius; the Bartons of Glendalough had a son who took on the Zulus; the Madame of Humewood was inextricably bound up in the fall of Paris to the Nazis; the Howards of Shelton Abbey sired Billy Wicklow, an intimate devotee of Dublin pubs in the 1950s.

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