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Tyrone House and the St George Family: The Story of an Anglo-Irish Family

Tyrone House and the St George Family: The Story of an Anglo-Irish Family - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert O'ByrnePublish date:2019-05-08Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:XlibrisISBN-13:9781796017007ISBN-10:1796017000UPC:9781796017007Book Category:HistorySize:11.30 x 8.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC3PJ3QG1T
Located on a prominent site overlooking Galway Bay in the west of Ireland, Tyrone House was once one of the countrys finest Georgian mansions. Dating from the 1770s, the building was home to generations of the French and St George families, a powerful symbol of their wealth and power. The interior of the house was lavishly decorated and furnished, beginning with the entrance hall, dominated by a life-size marble statue of Lord St George. But despite their advantages, over the course of the nineteenth century, the family went into irreversible decline and eventually forsook their great residence, which was destroyed by fire in 1920. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of the St Georges and their fate, embodied in what became of Tyrone House, which is today a little more than a gaunt ruin.
Language:EnglishPublisher:XlibrisISBN-13:9781796017007ISBN-10:1796017000UPC:9781796017007Book Category:HistorySize:11.30 x 8.40 x 0.50 inchesWeight:1.8012Product ID:SC3PJ3QG1T
Publisher: Xlibris

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Robert O'Byrne

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