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The land war 1920-23: Up in flames — how land hunger fuelled the burning of Ireland’s ‘Big Houses’
The destruction of mansions belonging to the landed gentry is associated in the popular imagination with the revolutionary zeal of the 1920-23 era, but in many cases the setting ablaze of the ‘Big House’ was motivated by a desperate desire for land
Historians still debate how many ‘Big Houses’ were burned across Ireland between 1920-23 as the chaos of war gripped the land.
In an account published 20 years ago, historian Terence Dooley estimated that 76 mansions were set ablaze, and twice that number destroyed during the Civil War.
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923.
10 Ion 2021 — Between 1919 and 1923, in the War of Independence and the subsequent civil war, nearly 300 country houses were burned in Ireland.
21 Meh 2011 — John Dorney looks at the burning of the Big Houses in the Irish Revolution of 1919-23. Late on January 29, 1923, Lady Mayo was eating dinner ...
House | Location | County | Date of attack |
Aasleagh Lodge | Aghagower | County Mayo | 1923 |
Annaskeagh House | Dundalk | County Louth | February 1923 |
Antrim Castle | Antrim | County Antrim | 28 October 1922 |
The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923. During the Irish Revolution ...
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The gripping story of the tumultuous destruction of the Irish country house, spanning the revolutionary years of 1912 to 1923. During the Irish Revolution ...
