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A town's voluntary clubs have been canvassed for support for a project deemed worthy of the Queen's golden jubilee. The vision of the Demesnes jubilee project, which has set up a steering group in ...

Palimpsest is a word I like to dust off now and then. It dates from the days when parchment might be used several times, the older, rubbed-out writing a ghostly presence behind the new. It carries a ...

Cllr Joe Corr (GP) recently asked the local authority if theres any plans to establish farmers markets in the grounds of Ardgillan Castle, Swords Castle, Newbridge House, Skerries Mills or Malahide ...

Author and historian Roy Foster, along with a specialist in historic Irish demesnes, is urging Kerry County Council to wake up to one of the country's classic 18th-century model estate villages and to ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The peasant sector of the agricultural economy is much less well documented than the seigneurial sector in the late middle ages. This paper is ...

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Round 4 of the Kudu Cross League takes place on Sunday 22nd November at the Demesnes, Barnard Castle, Co Durham. Following a lot of rain and more forecast to fall the terrain will be muddy, and ...

A phoenix from the ashes, County Offaly has so much to offer and as Domhnall O’Donoghue discovers, the "faithful county" has an inspiring resilience. Exploring Tullamore, County Offaly’s principal ...

The country house could be represented as the most powerful symbol of British colonialism and imperialism in Ireland. But why were more of them burnt out during the Civil War than the War of ...