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Notes on Rathdrum, County Wicklow

A look at some of the figures connected to Rathdrum, such as the gambler Buck Whaley, the rebel Anne Devlin, the St Louis “boss” Edward Butler, Sir Lawrence Byrne, a judge in the Lord Haw-Haw case; Samuel Hayes, a forestry pioneer; and Charles Stewart Parnell, an Irish politician.