Patrick Cosgrove, Terence Dooley, and Karol Mullaney-Dignam (eds), Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House, Dublin

The story of the Fitzgerald dynasty is, in many ways, the story of colonial Ireland: for almost 800 years, this family – whose spectacular estate at Maynooth stood literally and symbolically at the edge of Dublin’s “Pale” – rose and fell with revolutions and reforms of their country. It is the Fitzgeralds’ central role in Irish history that Aspects of Irish Aristocratic Life: Essays on the Fitzgeralds and Carton House aims to capture. While the preface to ..