A Wicklow farmer has been ordered by the High Court not to trespass on the grounds of Russborough House in Blessington, Co Wicklow pending a legal action over a dispute about his right to farm part of the estate.
The High Court granted an application to the Alfred Beit Foundation, the charitable trust that owns and operates Russborough House for an interlocutory injunction against a local farmer, David Egar, from entering the property.
The Albert Beit Foundation, which was founded in 1976 by the late Sir Alfred and Lady Clementine Bite claimed the dispute with Mr Egar had put their plans to stage music festivals at Russborough House at risk.
In 2001, Homan Potterton enjoyed unexpected literary success with a childhood memoir,
Rathcormick – unexpected because hitherto he had been known as an art historian and former director of the National Gallery of Ireland. But for those aware of him only in these guises, the book provided an insight into the author’s origins as the youngest child of prosperous Irish farming stock. Potterton might have followed the example of his forebears and stayed in rural Ireland, but at the age of 16 he visited France, was taken to a series of chateaux and then guided by a distant cousin around the Louvre. Returning home, he realised that he was not, as had previously appeared to be the case, a fish out of water, but ‘had merely been swimming in the wrong pond’.
She began life as a rich young debutant who was presented to the Queen but she became the inspiration for Martin ‘The General’ Cahill to conduct one of the most daring raids of his career.
Republican renegade Rose Dugdale was an aristocrat born into extreme wealth in Devon but she turned her back on her life of privilege to join the ‘Irish cause’ and is to date the only woman to pull of a major art heist.
A new book, The Woman Who Stole Vermeer, by art detective Anthony Amore details how Dugdale planned and carried out the first major raid on Russborough House in County Wicklow stealing a number of paintings including the famed ‘Lady Writing a Letter With Her Maid by the Dutch master Vermeer.
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