The Ms Dopping-Hepenstal stood up by her groom who had eloped to India with another woman without her knowing is still spoken of today. Her sister was involved with one of the Edgeworths, but in the end neither girl married. Some versions of the story have Edgeworth as the cad, but most do not.
I have recently become the happy owner of the book on Cloncoose poet Pat Higgins, a folk poet of the time when …
She was a landlords daughter Her lover not so grand It was illegal to be a Catholic You could not own your …
Willie Carty worked for the Dopping Hepenstal family, and heard stories of their relative who was in the British Army in Waziristan …
The only “Bards in the Woods” I managed to attend was a few years back, in Mullinaleaghta in Longford, where John Wilmott …
An eerie cry echos the evening air The mermaids plaintive song The saying among the folk that know Is there will be …
April 20th 1847 Men, children and women with clothes cast away Came to Derrycassin door To protest and plunder for want of …
Did they look as I walked Where tradition states one never should, Inside the round ditches of the fort, Perched above Loch …
Beauty passed, and yet still beautiful, Walls crumble, slaves to time, build long ago The rhubarb that once here grew I ate, …