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Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall
Countess Of Fingall Elizabeth
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Paperback. First published in 1937, it's Daisy Fingall's own story, welcoming you to a world long gone. With all the power of first-class fiction, in Kileen Castle, County Meath, we meet the leading figures of Daisy's time -- Parnell, Edward VII, AE, Shaw, Moore, Yeats, and so many more. Num Pages: 454 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 596.
Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (nee Burke) of County Galway, who in 1883, aged seventeen, married the 11th Earl of Fingall of Killeen Castle, County Meath. Daisy’s vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland, a world in transition – from viceregal, country-house Ireland of Dublin drawing-rooms and Meath hunting-fields, now as remote as pre-revolutionary Russia – to the Great War, Easter rising and civil ... Read more
Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (nee Burke) of County Galway, who in 1883, aged seventeen, married the 11th Earl of Fingall of Killeen Castle, County Meath. Daisy’s vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland, a world in transition – from viceregal, country-house Ireland of Dublin drawing-rooms and Meath hunting-fields, now as remote as pre-revolutionary Russia – to the Great War, Easter rising and civil ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
595g
Number of Pages
454
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9780946640744
SKU
V9780946640744
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Reviews for Seventy Years Young: Memories of Elizabeth, Countess of Fingall
This book is one of the most remarkable and the most entertaining of its kind ever published about late Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.’ – Peter Costello, Sunday Independent ‘A woman of considerable style and substance, her autobiography gives a fascinating glimpse into the social and political life in Ireland at the turn of the century.’ – Deidre McQuillan, Sunday Tribune ... Read more