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Exhibition of The War of Independence and Civil War in County Wexford

Exhibition of The War of Independence and Civil War in County Wexford
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The tale of Ireland's 'House Burning Mania' of 1919-1923


January 10, 2021
Muckloon, County Mayo, the ruined house and estate of aristocrat and wine merchant George Henry Moore.
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Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland. To mark the centenary of the events, Terence Dooley re-appraises the motives behind this destruction.
Late on the night of February 4, 1921, a local company of the Irish Republican Army came to Summerhill House, Co Meath, home of the 5th Baron Langford, and knocked very loudly on the back door. The men came on the orders of the Irish revolutionary and politician Michael Collins to burn the house. Local IRA leader Seán Boylan later claimed that Collins had been told that Summerhill a magnificent Palladian pile referred to as ‘the Irish Versailles’, believed to have been designed by Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and built for Hercules Langford Rowley in the early 1730s was to be used ....

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