Feb 18, 2022
The Crosbie family descended from a once powerful Catholic dynasty whose influence waned during the religious troubles of the 17th century. Its best known members include Sir Edward Crosbie, executed for treason after the 1798 Rebellion, and his younger brother,...
Jan 3, 2022
The evening of Sunday January14th, 1923 was like any other for the Sherlock family who lived in Roundhill House just outside Bandon, in County Cork, except that the servants were out for the evening. When suddenly a large number of armed men broke through the front...
Dec 3, 2021
Hailing from Cambrai in French Picardy, the Lefroy family arrived in England as refugees during the French Wars of Religion. Having prospered as silk merchants in Canterbury, two branches emerged. The Irish branch included Tom Lefroy, famed as the love interest of...
Oct 4, 2021
It is not every day that you find a C.B.E. in your sock drawer, but that’s precisely what I came upon when I moved in to my late grandfather’s house in Co Kilkenny in 1999. ‘Commander, Order of the British Empire’, it announced. I presented the medal to the...
Oct 4, 2021
Extracts from this interview were used for features in Irish Tatler and The Dubliner. See the feature on him in Tatler here. James Fennell and I met Gottfried Helnwein on a bleak and blackened Wednesday afternoon shortly before Christmas 2000. He was at his castle...
