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The Butler Family Contents

Butler Society crest. Illustration: Derry Dillon.

Branches

 

  • Ormond, Earls – The First Eight Earls (1327-1539)
  • Baron Dunboyne (Butler)
  • Butlers of Castlecrine, County Clare
  • Butler of Ballyglasheen, County Tipperary

 

People

 

  • Theobald Walter, Founder of the Butler Family
  • Walter Butler & the Death of Wallenstein by Melosina Lenox-Conyngham
  • The Duke of Ormonde and the Ringsend Cars
  • John Butler’s succession and the Dunboyne Scholarship
  • Senator Pierce Butler (1744-1822)
  • Richard Butler (1794-1862), Vicar of Trim and  Dean of Clonmacnoise
  • James Butler Ievers (1844-1915) of Glanduff & Mount Ievers
  • Charlie Butler (1860-1932) – Agent at Lisnavagh
  • Forty Years of Farming by Gilbert Butler (c. 1967)
  • Eulogy to James Butler (1942-2020) – The Quiet Man

 

Places

 

  • Lisnavagh – A Potted History
  • Butler’s Grange, County Carlow
  • Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
  • Gowran, County Kilkenny

 

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The First Eight Earls of Ormond (1327-1515)

The Butler earls of Ormond operated one of medieval Ireland’s dominant dynasties, centred on Kilkenny and Tipperary. From James Butler, 1st Earl (created 1328)...

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