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Showing posts with label Co Monaghan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Co Monaghan. Show all posts
29 June 2022

How the Marquis of Bath
came to own Comberford
Hall for almost 30 years

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Comberford Hall, seen from the train between Tamworth and Lichfield … owned for almost 30 years by the Thynne family (Photograph: Patrick Co...
04 January 2020

John Leslie, ‘the oldest bishop
in Christendom’, and
his eighteen-year-old wife

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Castle Leslie … the home built by Bishop John Leslie at Glaslough, Co Monaghan (Photograph: Patrick Comerford) Patrick Comerford When ...
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20 April 2016

Why Dr Johnson found Charles Leslie
was ‘a reasoner not to be reasoned with’

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Castle Leslie, home of Sir Jack Leslie and his Nonjuring ancestor, Charles Leslie, who was admired by Samuel Johnson (Photograph: Patrick C...
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10 April 2014

Stopping in Monaghan and recalling
some long roads we have travelled

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Inside the Westenra Arms Hotel in Monghan this evening (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2014) Patrick Comerford I spent much of the day t...
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07 March 2012

Poems for Lent (12): ‘Forest Song,’ by Sir Shane Leslie

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‘God ... loveth leafen kind’ (Sir Shane Leslie) ... trees on the Castle Leslie estate in Glaslough, Co Monaghan (Photograph: Patrick Comerf...
04 January 2012

Christmas Poems (21): Advent by Patrick Kavanagh

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“ ...the newness that was in every stale thing/ When we looked at it as children” – an old gate and gate lodge on the Castle Leslie estate i...
29 August 2011

The unusual stories of the Leslie family

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The Library at Castle Leslie ... the story of the Leslie family is a colourful story that spans all aspects of Irish life (Photograph: Kerry...
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28 August 2011

Staying at Castle Leslie

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Castle Leslie, in Glaslough, Co Monagahan Patrick Comerford I’m staying for two nights at Castle Leslie in Co Monaghan. I checked in ear...