Monksgrange: Portrait of an Irish House and Family, 1769-1969

by Philip Bull

A County Wexford ascendancy house saved twice by rebel intervention in 1798 and 1922, Monksgrange tells a distinctive story of Irish history from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. Its people were not ordinary. One landlord had fought slavery in the American Civil War, another was a novelist, and another an agricultural reformer and senator in the independent Irish state. An eminent historian of medieval Ireland lived there and a beautiful...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846827868
• ISBN13: 9781846827860
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"