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Posted on December 24, 2020January 6, 2021 by Dermot O'Sullivan

Rathfarnham – ‘Big House’ borderlands

"Bottle Tower, Rathfarnham", by Harry Kernoff, RHA (1940) - built 1742 as a famine relief scheme after 1740/1741's "Year of the Slaughter" DERMOT O’SULLIVAN shows the secret history of a Dublin suburb In university I did a module on Irish Literature which included ‘Big House’ novels. When I first heard the term, I thought it…

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