Last updated: CASTLEGROVE Mansion in its heyday in 1912.
The end of the high life at Castlegrove Published: Last updated:
(This is part two. Part one appeared in last week s edition, June 3)
By Mary Burke
THE Tuam Herald ran a weekly column in the 1880s called Town Gossip under the pen name Paul Pry. It was very popular and its writer sailed close to the wind on occasion reporting on the doings of the business and landed class of the locality. There is nothing new in people wanting to read salacious tit-bits about the rich and famous. The anonymity of a pseudonym allowed Paul Pry a certain freedom of expression and the style of his writing could vary from flowery and fawning to candid and cutting in his observations about the town’s inhabitants.
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