Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923)

The destruction of country houses in Ireland was a phenomenon of the Irish revolutionary period (1919–1923), which saw at least 275 country houses deliberately burned down, blown up, or otherwise destroyed by the Irish Republican Army (IRA). ^[1]

Albert Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine

Albert Edward Handcock, 5th Baron Castlemaine (26 March 1863 – 6 July 1937), styled The Honourable from 1869 to 1892, was an Irish peer.

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Algernon Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene

Algernon William John Clotworthy Skeffington, 12th Viscount Massereene and 5th Viscount Ferrard, DSO (28 November 1873 – 20 July 1956) was British Army officer and an Ulster Unionist member of the Senate of Northern Ireland from 1921 to 1929.

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Anglo-Irish big house

The term big house refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland, which is itself known as the Anglo-Irish class.

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Anglo-Irish people

Anglo-Irish people denotes an ethnic, social and religious grouping who are mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy in Ireland.

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Antrim Castle

Antrim Castle or Massereene Castle was a fortified mansion in Antrim, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, on the banks of the Sixmilewater River.

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Antrim, County Antrim

Antrim (Aontroim, meaning 'lone ridge') is a town and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Ardamine Estate

The Ardamine Estate was a country estate and house near Gorey, in County Wexford, Ireland. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Ardamine Estate are country houses in Ireland.

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Ardfert

Ardfert is a village and civil parish in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Artane, Dublin

Artane, sometimes spelt Artaine, historically TartaineDublin, 1862: Thom's Almanac and Official Directory is a northside suburb of Dublin city, Ireland.

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Arthur Gore, 6th Earl of Arran

Arthur Jocelyn Charles Gore, 6th Earl of Arran, (14 September 1868 – 19 December 1958), known as Viscount Sudley from 1884 to 1901, was an Anglo-Irish peer and soldier.

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Arthur Vicars

Sir Arthur Edward Vicars, KCVO (27 July 1862 – 14 April 1921), was a genealogist and heraldic expert.

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Athlone

Athlone is a town on the border of County Roscommon and County Westmeath, Ireland.

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Aughagower

Aughagower or Aghagower is a small village in rural County Mayo in western Ireland.

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Auxiliary Division

The Auxiliary Division of the Royal Irish Constabulary (ADRIC), generally known as the Auxiliaries or Auxies, was a paramilitary unit of the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) during the Irish War of Independence. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Auxiliary Division are Irish War of Independence.

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Ballina, County Mayo

Ballina is a town in north County Mayo, Ireland.

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Ballinalee

Ballinalee, sometimes known as Saint Johnstown, is a village in north County Longford, Ireland.

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Ballybay

Ballybay is a town and civil parish in County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Ballyboden

Ballyboden is a locality within the suburb of Rathfarnham, County Dublin, at the foot of the Dublin Mountains between Whitechurch, Ballyroan and Knocklyon.

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Ballyhogue

Ballyhogue or Ballyhoge is a village and census town in County Wexford, Ireland.

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Ballyhooly

Ballyhooly is a small village in north County Cork situated along the N72 between Castletownroche and Fermoy.

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Ballymore Eustace

Ballymore Eustace is a small town situated in County Kildare in Ireland, although until 1836 it lay within an exclave (a detached "pocket") of County Dublin.

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Bandon Grammar School

Bandon Grammar School is a Church of Ireland secondary school situated in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland.

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Bandon, County Cork

Bandon is a town in County Cork, Ireland.

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Baron Langford

Baron Langford, of Summerhill in the County of Meath, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Baron Muskerry

Baron Muskerry is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Baron St George

Baron Saint George was a title that was created twice in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Belclare

Belclare is a small village in County Galway, western Ireland.

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Belturbet

Belturbet is a town in County Cavan, Ireland.

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Bessborough House

Bessborough House is a large Georgian house near Piltown, County Kilkenny, and was the family seat of the Ponsonby dynasty, Earls of Bessborough.

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Billet

A billet is a living-quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep.

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Black and Tans

The Black and Tans (Dúchrónaigh) were constables recruited into the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) as reinforcements during the Irish War of Independence. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Black and Tans are Irish War of Independence.

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Borrisokane

Borrisokane is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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British Army

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Naval Service and the Royal Air Force.

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Broadford, County Limerick

Broadford (- "the mouth of the ford") is a village in the west of County Limerick in Ireland.

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Bryan Mahon

Sir Bryan Thomas Mahon, (2 April 1862 – 29 September 1930) was an Irish general of the British Army, a senator of the short-lived Senate of Southern Ireland, and a member for eight years of the Irish Free State Senate until his death.

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Bunclody

Bunclody, formerly Newtownbarry (until 1950), is a small town on the River Slaney in Wexford, Ireland.

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Burton Constable Hall

Burton Constable Hall is a large Elizabethan country house in England, with 18th- and 19th-century interiors and a fine 18th-century cabinet of curiosities.

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Callan, County Kilkenny

Callan is a town and civil parish in County Kilkenny in Ireland.

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Cappoquin

Cappoquin, also sometimes spelt Cappaquin, is a town in western County Waterford, Ireland.

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Cappoquin House

Cappoquin House also known as Belmont is an 18th-century classical-style mansion overlooking the town of Cappoquin in County Waterford, Ireland.

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Carden baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Carden, one in the Baronetage of Ireland and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Carnmore

Carnmore is an electoral area located at the southern end of the parish of Claregalway, approximately east of Galway city in County Galway, Ireland.

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Carra, County Mayo

Carra is one of the nine baronies of County Mayo in Ireland, located in the mid-south area of the county.

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Carrigadrohid

Carrigadrohid is a townland and village in the parish of Aghinagh, County Cork, Ireland.

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Carrigrohane

Carrigrohane (also Currikippane or Kilgrohanmore, meaning "marsh of the little sticks") is a village and civil parish situated on the south bank of the River Lee to the west of the city of Cork in Ireland.

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Castle Hackett

Castle Hackett is a 13th-century tower house at the base of Knockma hill, south-west of Tuam, County Galway, Ireland.

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Castlebellingham

Castlebellingham is a village and townland in County Louth, Ireland.

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Castleboro House

Castleboro House is a former stately home in Clonroche, County Wexford, Ireland. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Castleboro House are country houses in Ireland.

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Castleconnell

Castleconnell (historically Caisleán Uí Chonaing) is a village in County Limerick on the banks of the River Shannon.

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Castlerea

Castlerea is the third largest town in County Roscommon, Ireland.

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Castleshane, County Monaghan

Castleshane is a small village on the outskirts of Monaghan town in the north of County Monaghan in Ireland.

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Castletownbere

Castletownbere, or Castletown Berehaven, is a port town in County Cork, Ireland.

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Castletownroche

Castletownroche is a townland, village, and civil parish in the barony of Fermoy, County Cork, Ireland.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Catholic emancipation

Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Catholic emancipation are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Charlemont Fort

Charlemont Fort was a garrison situated in Charlemont, County Armagh.

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Charlemont, County Armagh

Charlemont (Irish: Achadh an Dá Chora, "field of the two weirs") is a small village in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Charles Octavius Head

Lieutenant–Colonel Charles Octavius Head, DSO (30 May 1869 – 16 October 1952) was an Irish colonel in the British Army, and author of four books including his autobiography, No Great Shakes.

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Clonyn Castle

Clonyn Castle also known as Delvin Castle, is a Victorian country house situated in Delvin, County Westmeath, Ireland some 18 km from Mullingar along the N52.

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Clough Williams-Ellis

Sir Bertram Clough Williams-Ellis, CBE, MC (28 May 1883 – 9 April 1978) was a Welsh architect known chiefly as the creator of the Italianate village of Portmeirion in North Wales.

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Cloyne

Cloyne is a village located to the southeast of Midleton in eastern County Cork.

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Coachford

Coachford is a village in County Cork, Ireland.

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Connemara

Connemara (Conamara) is a region on the Atlantic coast of western County Galway, in the west of Ireland.

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County Antrim

County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster.

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County Armagh

County Armagh is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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County Carlow

County Carlow (Contae Cheatharlach) is a county located in the Southern Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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County Cavan

County Cavan (Contae an Chabháin) is a county in Ireland.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in the province of Munster in the Southern part of the republic of Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

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County Cork

County Cork (Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen., the county had a population of 584,156, making it the third-most populous county in Ireland.

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County Down

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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County Dublin

County Dublin (Contae Bhaile Átha Cliath or Contae Átha Cliath) is a county in Ireland, and holds its capital city, Dublin.

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County Galway

County Galway (Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland.

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County Kerry

County Kerry (Contae Chiarraí) is a county on the southwest coast of Ireland, within the province of Munster and the Southern Region.

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County Kildare

County Kildare (Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland.

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County Kilkenny

County Kilkenny (Contae Chill Chainnigh) is a county in Ireland.

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County Limerick

County Limerick (Contae Luimnigh) is a western county in Ireland.

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County Longford

County Longford (Contae an Longfoirt) is a county in Ireland.

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County Louth

County Louth (Contae Lú) is a coastal county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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County Mayo

County Mayo is a county in Ireland.

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County Meath

County Meath (Contae na Mí or simply an Mhí) is a county in the Eastern and Midland Region of Ireland, within the province of Leinster.

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County Monaghan

County Monaghan (Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland.

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County Offaly

County Offaly (Contae Uíbh Fhailí) is a county in Ireland.

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County Roscommon

County Roscommon (Contae Ros Comáin) is a county in Ireland.

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County Tipperary

County Tipperary (Contae Thiobraid Árann) is a county in Ireland.

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County Tyrone

County Tyrone is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland.

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County Waterford

County Waterford (Contae Phort Láirge) is a county in Ireland.

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County Westmeath

County Westmeath (Contae na hIarmhí or simply An Iarmhí) is a county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.

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Crookstown, County Cork

Crookstown is a small village in County Cork in Ireland, about 12 km east of the town of Macroom and about 1 km off the N22 Cork–Killarney road.

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Crossmolina

Crossmolina is a town in the historical barony of Tyrawley in County Mayo, Ireland, as well as the name of the civil parish and Catholic parish in which the town is situated.

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Cushendun

Cushendun is a small coastal village in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

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Deel Castle

Deel Castle was built in the 16th century by the Bourkes and later renamed Castle Gore.

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Delvin

Delvin is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland; it is located on the N52 road at a junction with the N51 to Navan.

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Demesne

A demesne or domain was all the land retained and managed by a lord of the manor under the feudal system for his own use, occupation, or support.

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Dermot Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo

Dermot Robert Wyndham Bourke, 7th Earl of Mayo KP PC (Ire) (2 July 1851 – 31 December 1927) was an Anglo-Irish peer, styled Lord Naas from 1867 to 1872, who served as an Irish representative peer in the British House of Lords (1890–1921) and member of the Senate of Southern Ireland (1921–1922) and Seanad Éireann (1922–1927).

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Derreen Garden

Derreen Garden lies on a promontory in Kilmakilloge Harbour on the Beara Peninsula, in Tuosist parish, near Kenmare in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland.

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Derryquin Castle

Derryquin Castle was an 18th-century stone-built country house, now demolished, in the Parknasilla estate in Sneem, County Kerry in Ireland. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Derryquin Castle are 1920s fires in Europe.

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Desart Court

Desart Court was a house in County Kilkenny, Ireland, built around 1733 for the first Lord Desart, John Cuffe. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Desart Court are 1920s fires in Europe.

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Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain

The destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain was the result of a change in social conditions: many country houses of varying architectural merit were demolished by their owners.

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Dripsey

Dripsey is a village in County Cork on the R618 regional road around west of Cork City.

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Dripsey Castle, Carrignamuck

Dripsey Castle is a country house in the townland of Carrignamuck, situated north-east of Coachford village and north-west of Dripsey village. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Dripsey Castle, Carrignamuck are country houses in Ireland.

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Dublin Castle administration

Dublin Castle was the centre of the government of Ireland under English and later British rule. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Dublin Castle administration are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Dunboy Castle

Dunboy Castle is a ruined 15th-century castle on the Beara Peninsula in south-west Ireland near the town of Castletownbere.

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Dundalk

Dundalk (Dún Dealgan) is the county town of County Louth, Ireland.

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Dunsany Castle and Demesne

Dunsany Castle (Caisleán Dhún Samhnaí), Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland is a modernised Anglo-Norman castle, started c. 1180 / 1181 by Hugh de Lacy, who also commissioned the original Killeen Castle, nearby, and the famous Trim Castle.

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Earl of Caledon

Earl of Caledon, of Caledon in the County of Tyrone, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Earl of Clare

Earl of Clare was a title of British nobility created three times: once each in the peerages of England, Great Britain and Ireland.

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Earl of Lanesborough

Earl of Lanesborough was a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Edenderry

Edenderry is a town in east County Offaly, Ireland.

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Edward Beaumont-Nesbitt

Edward John Downing Beaumont-Nesbitt (1859 – 1 January 1944) was an Anglo-Irish landowner and official.

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Elizabeth Bowen

Elizabeth Bowen CBE (7 June 1899 – 22 February 1973) was an Irish-British novelist and short story writer notable for her books about the "big house" of Irish landed Protestants as well as her fiction about life in wartime London.

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English country house

An English country house is a large house or mansion in the English countryside.

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Enniscorthy

Enniscorthy is the second-largest town in County Wexford, Ireland.

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Ernest Shackleton

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton (15 February 1874 – 5 January 1922) was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.

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Ernie O'Malley

Ernest Bernard Malley (Earnán Ó Máille; 26 May 1897 – 25 March 1957) was an Irish republican and writer.

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Executions during the Irish Civil War

The executions during the Irish Civil War took place during the guerrilla phase of the Irish Civil War (June 1922 – May 1923).

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Fermoy

Fermoy is a town on the River Blackwater in east County Cork, Ireland.

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Foxrock

Foxrock is an affluent suburb of Dublin, Ireland.

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Freemasonry

Freemasonry or Masonry refers to fraternal organisations that trace their origins to the local guilds of stonemasons that, from the end of the 14th century, regulated the qualifications of stonemasons and their interaction with authorities and clients.

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Gaulstown, County Westmeath

Gaulstown, also spelt Gallstown is a townland in County Westmeath, Ireland.

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George Le Hunte

Sir George Ruthven Le Hunte (20 August 1852 – 29 January 1925) was a British politician.

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George Moore (novelist)

George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist.

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George Noble Plunkett

George Noble Plunkett (3 December 1851 – 12 March 1948) was an Irish nationalist politician, museum director and biographer, who served as Minister for Fine Arts from 1921 to 1922, Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1919 to 1921 and Ceann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann in January 1919.

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Glanmire

Glanmire is a suburban town from Cork city centre, in the civil parish of Rathcooney, County Cork, Ireland.

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Glanworth

Glanworth is a village on the R512 regional road in County Cork, Ireland.

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Gorey

Gorey is a market town in north County Wexford, Ireland.

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Great Britain

Great Britain (commonly shortened to Britain) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the north-west coast of continental Europe, consisting of the countries England, Scotland and Wales.

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Great Famine (Ireland)

The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (an Gorta Mór), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and subsequently had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Great Famine (Ireland) are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Guinness family

The Guinness family is an extensive Irish family known for its accomplishments in brewing, banking, politics, and religious ministry.

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Hackballscross

Hackballscross is a small village in County Louth, Ireland.

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Hamilton Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart

Hamilton John Agmondesham Cuffe, 5th Earl of Desart, (30 August 1848 – 4 November 1934) was an Irish peer and barrister.

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Henry Guinness

Henry Seymour Guinness (24 November 1858 – 4 April 1945) was an Irish engineer, banker and politician.

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Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne

Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, (14 January 18453 June 1927), was a British statesman who served successively as Governor General of Canada, Viceroy of India, Secretary of State for War and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.

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Henry Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley

Henry O'Callaghan Prittie, 4th Baron Dunalley (21 March 1851 – 5 August 1927), was an Anglo-Irish peer.

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Hermitage House

Hermitage House was a large Georgian mansion in Castleconnell, County Limerick, Ireland.

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Horace Plunkett

Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett (24 October 1854 – 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural cooperatives, Unionist MP, supporter of Home Rule, Irish Senator and author.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Iffa and Offa West

Iffa and Offa West (Irish: Uíbh Eoghain agus Uíbh Fhathaidh Thiar) is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Inistioge

Inistioge is a small village in County Kilkenny, Ireland.

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Innishannon

Innishannon or Inishannon is a large village on the main Cork–Bandon road (N71) in County Cork, Ireland.

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Irish Civil War

The Irish Civil War (Cogadh Cathartha na hÉireann; 28 June 1922 – 24 May 1923) was a conflict that followed the Irish War of Independence and accompanied the establishment of the Irish Free State, an entity independent from the United Kingdom but within the British Empire.

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Irish Free State

The Irish Free State (6 December 192229 December 1937), also known by its Irish name i, was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish Free State are 1920s in Ireland.

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Irish Land Commission

The Irish Land Commission was created by the British crown in 1843 to "inquire into the occupation of the land in Ireland.

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Irish nationalism

Irish nationalism is a nationalist political movement which, in its broadest sense, asserts that the people of Ireland should govern Ireland as a sovereign state. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish nationalism are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Irish Parliamentary Party

The Irish Parliamentary Party (IPP; commonly called the Irish Party or the Home Rule Party) was formed in 1874 by Isaac Butt, the leader of the Nationalist Party, replacing the Home Rule League, as official parliamentary party for Irish nationalist Members of Parliament (MPs) elected to the House of Commons at Westminster within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland up until 1918. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish Parliamentary Party are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Irish Republican Army (1919–1922)

The Irish Republican Army (IRA; Óglaigh na hÉireann) was an Irish republican revolutionary paramilitary organisation. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) are Irish War of Independence.

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Irish republicanism

Irish republicanism (poblachtánachas Éireannach) is the political movement for an Irish republic, void of any British rule. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish republicanism are Irish nationalism.

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Irish revolutionary period

The revolutionary period in Irish history was the period in the 1910s and early 1920s when Irish nationalist opinion shifted from the Home Rule-supporting Irish Parliamentary Party to the republican Sinn Féin movement. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish revolutionary period are 1910s in Ireland, 1920s in Ireland, history of Ireland (1801–1923) and Irish nationalism.

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Irish Unionist Alliance

The Irish Unionist Alliance (IUA), also known as the Irish Unionist Party, Irish Unionists or simply the Unionists, was a unionist political party founded in Ireland in 1891 from a merger of the Irish Conservative Party and the Irish Loyal and Patriotic Union (ILPU) to oppose plans for home rule for Ireland within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Irish War of Independence

The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921 between the Irish Republican Army (IRA, the army of the Irish Republic) and British forces: the British Army, along with the quasi-military Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) and its paramilitary forces the Auxiliaries and Ulster Special Constabulary (USC). Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Irish War of Independence are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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James Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon

James Francis Bernard, 4th Earl of Bandon, KP (12 September 1850 – 18 May 1924), was a British Deputy Lieutenant in Ireland and Irish representative peer.

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James Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont

James Edward Caulfeild, 8th Viscount Charlemont, PC (NI), DL (12 May 1880 – 20 August 1949) was an Irish Peer, elected to the British House of Lords as a Representative Peer and to the Parliament of Northern Ireland as a Senator.

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James Stronge (Mid-Armagh MP)

Major James Matthew Stronge (21 June 1932 – 21 January 1981) was a soldier and Ulster Unionist Party MP in the Parliament of Northern Ireland, and the later Northern Ireland Assembly.

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John Browne, 5th Baron Kilmaine

John Edward Deane Browne, 5th Baron Kilmaine (18 March 1878 – 27 August 1946) was an Anglo-Irish politician and landowner.

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John Philip Bagwell

John Philip Bagwell (11 August 1874 – 22 August 1946) was an Irish businessman and politician.

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John Pretyman Newman

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Robert Pretyman Newman (born John Robert Bramston Newman; 22 August 1871 – 12 March 1947) was an Irish-born British Army officer and Conservative politician.

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Johnstown, County Kildare

Johnstown is a village in County Kildare, Ireland.

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Justice of the peace

A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace.

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Keane baronets

The Keane Baronetcy, of Belmont in the County of Waterford, is a title in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom.

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Kenmare

Kenmare is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland.

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Kentchurch Court

Kentchurch Court is a Grade I listed stately home east from the village of Kentchurch in Herefordshire, England.

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Kilbolane Castle

Kilbolane Castle is a historical fortification atop Kilbolane Hill, half a kilometre from the village of Milford, County Cork, Ireland.

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Kilbrittain

Kilbrittain or Killbrittain is the name of a village, townland and parish in County Cork, Ireland.

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Kilcolgan

Kilcolgan, is a village on the mouth of the Kilcolgan River at Dunkellin Bay in County Galway, Ireland.

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Kilgarvan

Kilgarvan is a small village in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Kill, County Waterford

Kill is a village in County Waterford, Ireland located between Dungarvan and Tramore, on the R681 road.

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Killeen Castle, Dunsany

Killeen Castle (Caisleán an Chillín), located in Dunsany, County Meath, Ireland, is the current construction on a site occupied by a castle since around 1180.

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Kilmacthomas

Kilmacthomas or Kilmactomas, often referred to locally as "Kilmac", is a town on the River Mahon in County Waterford, Ireland.

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Kilmurry McMahon

Kilmurry McMahon (Irish: Cill Mhuire Mhic Mhathuna), also called Kilmurry-Clonderalaw, is a civil parish in County Clare in Ireland.

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Kilraghtis

Kilraghtis (Cill Reachtais) is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland.

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Kilrickle

Kilrickle is a civil parish in County Galway, Ireland.

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Kinnitty

Kinnitty is a village in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Kinnitty Castle

Kinnitty Castle or Castle Bernard is a 19th-century gothic revival castle and hotel in Kinnitty (Cionn Eitigh), County Offaly, Ireland.

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Lady Gregory

Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) was an Anglo-Irish dramatist, folklorist and theatre manager.

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Lahardane

Lahardane, also sometimes spelled Lahardaun (meaning "Half on Hill"), is a village in the parish of Addergoole, County Mayo, Ireland, adjacent to Lough Conn and to Nephin, and close to the towns of Crossmolina, Castlebar and Ballina.

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Land Acts (Ireland)

The Land Acts (officially Land Law (Ireland) Acts) were a series of measures to deal with the question of tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship of land in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and land Acts (Ireland) are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Landed gentry

The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could live entirely from rental income, or at least had a country estate.

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Leap Castle

Leap Castle (Caisleán Léim Uí Bhánáin) is a castle in Coolderry, County Offaly, Ireland, about north of the town of Roscrea and south of Kinnitty on the R421.

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Liam Lynch (Irish republican)

William Fanaghan Lynch (Liam Ó Loingsigh; 20 November 1892 – 10 April 1923) was an Irish Republican Army officer during the Irish War of Independence of 1919–1921.

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Lisheen Castle

Lisheen Castle is an 18th-century building in Thurles, County Tipperary, Ireland. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Lisheen Castle are country houses in Ireland.

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Lismore, County Waterford

Lismore is a historic town in County Waterford, in the province of Munster, Ireland.

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List of family seats of Irish nobility

This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland.

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Listowel

Listowel is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland.

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Long Depression

The Long Depression was a worldwide price and economic recession, beginning in 1873 and running either through March 1879, or 1896, depending on the metrics used.

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Lord Dunsany

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 – 25 October 1957), commonly known as Lord Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist.

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Macroom

Macroom (Maigh Chromtha) is a market town in County Cork, Ireland, located in the valley of the River Sullane, halfway between Cork city and Killarney.

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Macroom Castle

Macroom Castle, in the centre of the town of Macroom, was once residence and fortress of the Lords of Muskerry.

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Mallow, County Cork

Mallow is a town in County Cork, Ireland, approximately thirty-five kilometres north of Cork.

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Mark Bence-Jones

Mark Adayre Bence-Jones (29 May 1930 – 12 April 2010) was a London-born writer, noted mainly for his books on Irish architecture, the British aristocracy and the British Raj.

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Marlfield House, Clonmel

Marlfield House was the former residence of the Bagwells, a wealthy and politically influential Irish Unionist family in south Tipperary from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries.

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Marlfield, Clonmel

Marlfield (Gaeilge:Gort an Mharla) is a village three kilometres west of Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Marquess of Sligo

Marquess of Sligo is a title in the Peerage of Ireland.

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Mary Spring Rice

Mary Ellen Spring Rice (14 September 1880 – 1 December 1924) was an Irish nationalist activist during the early 20th century.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district.

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Mitchelstown

Mitchelstown is a town in the north of County Cork, Ireland with a population of over 3,740.

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Mitchelstown Castle

Mitchelstown Castle, the former home of the Anglo Irish Earls of Kingston, was located in the north County Cork town of Mitchelstown in Ireland.

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Moira O'Neill

Moira O'Neill was the pseudonym of Agnes Shakespear Higginson (1864–1955), an Irish-Canadian poet who wrote ballads and other verse inspired by County Antrim, where she lived at Cushendun.

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Monaghan

Monaghan is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Moore Hall, County Mayo

Moore Hall, or Moorehall, the house and estate of George Henry Moore and family, is situated to the south of the village Carnacon in the barony of Carra, County Mayo, Ireland in a karst limestone landscape.

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Mount Trenchard House

Mount Trenchard House is an Irish stately home located near Foynes, County Limerick, overlooking the River Shannon. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Mount Trenchard House are country houses in Ireland.

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Mountbolus

Mountbolus is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland.

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Mountshannon House

Mountshannon House was a large mansion in Lisnagry, near Castleconnell, County Limerick, built in the mid-18th century.

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Moy, County Tyrone

Moy is a village and townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland about southeast of Dungannon and beside the smaller village of Charlemont.

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Moydrum Castle

Moydrum Castle (meaning "plain of the ridge") is a ruined castle situated in the locality of Moydrum, Ireland, just to the east of Athlone.

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Munster

Munster (an Mhumhain or Cúige Mumhan) is one of the four provinces of Ireland, located in the south of the island.

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Myshall

Myshall is a village, townland and civil parish in County Carlow, Ireland.

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National Army (Ireland)

The National Army, sometimes unofficially referred to as the Free State army or the Regulars, was the army of the Irish Free State from January 1922 until October 1924.

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National Trust

The National Trust (Ymddiriedolaeth Genedlaethol; Iontaobhas Náisiúnta) is a heritage and nature conservation charity and membership organisation in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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Nenagh

Nenagh (or simply An tAonach 'the Fair') is the county town of County Tipperary in Ireland.

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Norman Stronge

Sir Charles Norman Lockhart Stronge, 8th Baronet, MC, PC, JP (23 July 1894 – 21 January 1981) was a senior Ulster Unionist Party politician in Northern Ireland.

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Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland (Tuaisceart Éireann; Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland that is variously described as a country, province or region.

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Official Irish Republican Army

The Official Irish Republican Army or Official IRA (OIRA) was an Irish republican paramilitary group whose goal was to remove Northern Ireland from the United Kingdom and create a "workers' republic" encompassing all of Ireland.

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Oliver Plunkett

Oliver Plunkett (or Oliver Plunket; Oilibhéar Pluincéid; 1 November 1625 – 1 July 1681) was the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland and the last victim of the Popish Plot.

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Oliver St. John Gogarty

Oliver Joseph St.

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Olivia Charlotte Guinness, Baroness Ardilaun

Olivia Charlotte Guinness, Baroness Ardilaun (27 August 1850 – 13 December 1925), best known as Lady Ardilaun was, after the British monarch, the richest woman of her time in Britain and Ireland.

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Peerage of Ireland

The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Piltown

Piltown, historically known as Ballyfoyle, is a village in County Kilkenny, Ireland.

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Plantations of Ireland

Plantations in 16th- and 17th-century Ireland (Plandálacha na hÉireann) involved the confiscation of Irish-owned land by the English Crown and the colonisation of this land with settlers from Great Britain.

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President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State

The president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State (Uachtarán ar Ard-Chomhairle Shaorstát Éireann) was the head of government or prime minister of the Irish Free State which existed from 1922 to 1937.

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Protestant Ascendancy

The Protestant Ascendancy (also known as the Ascendancy) was the sociopolitical and economical domination of Ireland between the 17th and early 20th centuries by a small Anglican ruling class, whose members consisted of landowners, politicians, clergymen, military officers and other prominent professions.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

The Provisional Irish Republican Army (Provisional IRA), officially known as the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, facilitate Irish reunification and bring about an independent republic encompassing all of Ireland.

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Raleigh Chichester-Constable

Raleigh Charles Joseph Chichester-Constable (21 December 1890 – 26 May 1963) was an English soldier and cricketer.

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Rathnure

Rathnure is a small village on the R731 regional road about from the town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland.

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Ravensdale, County Louth

Ravensdale is a village, townland and electoral division located at the foothills of the Cooley Mountains on the Cooley Peninsula in the north of County Louth in Ireland.

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Representation of the People Act 1884

In the United Kingdom under the premiership of William Gladstone, the Representation of the People Act 1884 (48 & 49 Vict. c. 3), also known informally as the Third Reform Act, and the Redistribution Act of the following year were laws which further extended the suffrage in the UK after the Derby government's Reform Act 1867.

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Robert Carew, 3rd Baron Carew

Robert Shapland George Julian Carew, 3rd Baron Carew KP DL (15 June 1860 – 29 April 1923) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman.

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Rochfortbridge

Rochfortbridge is a village in County Westmeath, Ireland.

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Roscommon

Roscommon (IPA:ˌɾˠɔsˠˈkɔmˠaːnʲ) is the county town and the largest town in County Roscommon in Ireland.

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Roscrea

Roscrea is a market town in County Tipperary, Ireland, which in 2016 had a population of 5,446.

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Rosscarbery

Rosscarbery is a village and census town in County Cork, Ireland.

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Roxborough Castle

Roxborough Castle was a castle in Moy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland originally built in 1738.

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Royal Irish Constabulary

The Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC, Constáblacht Ríoga na hÉireann; simply called the Irish Constabulary 1836–67) was the police force in Ireland from 1822 until 1922, when all of the island was part of the United Kingdom. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Royal Irish Constabulary are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Safe house

A safe house (also spelled safehouse) is a dwelling place or building whose unassuming appearance makes it an inconspicuous location where one can hide out, take shelter, or conduct clandestine activities.

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Sale of Irish country house contents

The dispersion of artefacts, through the sale of Irish country house contents, happened often with the destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923).

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Scarriff

ScarriffCentral Statistics Office, Census 2002,.

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Seanad Éireann

Seanad Éireann ("Senate of Ireland") is the senate of the Oireachtas (the Irish legislature), which also comprises the President of Ireland and Dáil Éireann (defined as the house of representatives).

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Seanad Éireann (Irish Free State)

Seanad Éireann (Senate of Ireland) was the upper house of the Oireachtas (parliament) of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1936.

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Seán McGarry

Seán McGarry (2 August 1886 – 9 December 1958) was a 20th-century Irish nationalist and politician.

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Sir Henry Wilson, 1st Baronet

Field Marshal Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, 1st Baronet, (5 May 1864 – 22 June 1922) was one of the most senior British Army staff officers of the First World War and was briefly an Irish unionist politician.

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Sir Thomas Esmonde, 11th Baronet

Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Esmonde, 11th Baronet, (21 September 1862 – 15 September 1935) was an Irish Home Rule nationalist politician and author.

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Sir Tim O'Brien, 3rd Baronet

Sir Timothy Carew O'Brien, 3rd Baronet (5 November 1861 – 9 December 1948) was an Irish baronet who played cricket for England in five Test matches.

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Sneem

Sneem is a village situated on the Iveragh Peninsula (part of the Ring of Kerry), in County Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland.

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Special Category Status

In July 1972, William Whitelaw, the Conservative British government's Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, granted Special Category Status (SCS) to all prisoners serving sentences in Northern Ireland for Troubles-related offences.

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Springfield Castle

Springfield Castle, Broadford, is situated in the west part of County Limerick, Ireland, close to the town of Newcastlewest.

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Stephen Gwynn

Stephen Lucius Gwynn (13 February 1864 – 11 June 1950) was an Irish journalist, biographer, author, poet and Protestant Nationalist politician.

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Stillorgan

Stillorgan (also Stigh Lorcáin and previously Tigh Lorcáin or Teach Lorcáin), formerly a village in its own right, is now a suburban area of Dublin in Ireland.

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Stradone, County Cavan

Stradone is a village located in County Cavan, Ireland.

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Strangford

Strangford (from Old Norse Strangr fjörðr, meaning "strong sea-inlet") is a small village at the mouth of Strangford Lough, on the Lecale peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Summerhill House

Summerhill House was a 100-roomed Palladian house in County Meath, Ireland which was the ancestral seat of the Viscounts Langford and the Barons Langford. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Summerhill House are country houses in Ireland.

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Summerhill, County Meath

Summerhill is a heritage village in County Meath, Ireland.

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Teachta Dála

A Teachta Dála (plural Teachtaí Dála), abbreviated as TD (plural TDanna in Irish, TDs in English), is a member of Dáil Éireann, the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament).

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Templemore

Templemore is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Terenure

Terenure, originally called Roundtown, is a middle class suburb of Dublin in Ireland.

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The Last September

The Last September is a 1929 novel by the Anglo-Irish writer Elizabeth Bowen, concerning life in Danielstown, Cork during the Irish War of Independence, at a country mansion.

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The Troubles

The Troubles (Na Trioblóidí) were an ethno-nationalist conflict in Northern Ireland that lasted for about 30 years from the late 1960s to 1998.

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The Unforgettable Fire

The Unforgettable Fire is the fourth studio album by Irish rock band U2.

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Thurles

Thurles (Durlas Éile) is a town in County Tipperary, Ireland.

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Tim Pat Coogan

Timothy Patrick "Tim Pat" Coogan (born 22 April 1935) is an Irish journalist, writer and broadcaster.

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Timoleague

Timoleague is a village in the eastern division of Carbery East in County Cork, Ireland.

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Tralee

Tralee (formerly Tráigh Lí, meaning 'strand of the River Lee') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland.

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Tuam

Tuam (Tuaim, meaning 'mound' or 'burial-place') is a town in Ireland and the second-largest settlement in County Galway.

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Tulla

Tulla is a market town in County Clare, Ireland.

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Tullamore

Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly in Ireland.

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Tullow

Tullow (formerly Tulach Ó bhFéidhlim/ Tullowphelim) is a market town in County Carlow, Ireland.

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Tydavnet

Tydavnet, officially Tedavnet, is a village in northern County Monaghan, Ireland, and also the name of the townland and civil parish in which the village sits.

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Tynan

Tynan is a village, townland (of 375 acres) and civil parish in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

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Tynan Abbey

Tynan Abbey in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, was a large neo-gothic-romantic country house built c. 1750 (later renovated c. 1815) and situated outside the village of Tynan.

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Tyrone House

Tyrone House in County Galway is a ruined manor house, built in the 1770s on a promontory by the estuary of the Kilcolgan river, about from the village of Kilcolgan, County Galway, Ireland.

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U2

U2 are an Irish rock band formed in Dublin in 1976.

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Ulster Defence Regiment

The Ulster Defence Regiment (UDR) was an infantry regiment of the British Army established in 1970, with a comparatively short existence ending in 1992.

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Una Ross, 25th Baroness de Ros

Una Mary Ross, 25th Baroness de Ros of Helmsley (née Lady Una Mary Dawson; 5 October 1879 – 9 October 1956) was a British peer.

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Union Hall, County Cork

Union Hall, also Unionhall, is a small fishing village located in County Cork, Ireland, located on the west side of Glandore Harbour.

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Unionism in Ireland

Unionism in Ireland is a political tradition that professes loyalty to the crown of the United Kingdom and to the union it represents with England, Scotland and Wales. Destruction of Irish country houses (1919–1923) and Unionism in Ireland are history of Ireland (1801–1923).

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Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough

Vere Brabazon Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough, (27 October 1880 – 10 March 1956), was an Anglo-Irish businessman and politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the fourteenth since Canadian Confederation.

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W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.

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W. T. Cosgrave

William Thomas Cosgrave (5 June 1880 – 16 November 1965) was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as the president of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State from 1922 to 1932, leader of the Opposition in both the Free State and Ireland from 1932 to 1944, leader of Fine Gael from 1934 to 1944, founder and leader of Fine Gael's predecessor, Cumann na nGaedheal, from 1923 to 1933, chairman of the Provisional Government from August 1922 to December 1922, the president of Dáil Éireann from September 1922 to December 1922, the minister for Finance from 1922 to 1923 and minister for Local Government from 1919 to 1922.

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Warren baronets

There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Warren, one in the Baronetage of Great Britain and one in the Baronetage of Ireland.

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Wexford

Wexford is the county town of County Wexford, Ireland.

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William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel

William Hare, 3rd Earl of Listowel, (29 May 1833 – 5 June 1924), styled Viscount Ennismore from 1837 to 1856, was an Irish peer and Liberal politician.

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Woodstock Estate

Woodstock House and Estate is a derelict Georgian house and estate located near Inistioge, County Kilkenny, Ireland, on the west bank of the River Nore.

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1981 Irish hunger strike

The 1981 Irish hunger strike was the culmination of a five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_Irish_country_houses_(1919–1923)

Also known as Burning of Big Houses in Ireland, Destruction of country houses in the Irish revolutionary period.

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