Left Without a Handkerchief

By:

Robert O'Byrne

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Paperback / softback

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Left without a Handkerchief contains ten stories of destruction and loss during the Irish War of Independence and Civil War. Between 250 and 300 Irish country houses were burnt in the early 1920s during the course of the War of Independence and subsequent Civil War. The reasons behind their destruction were various, but because of their scale and prominence on the Irish landscape, setting fire to them was judged by perpetrators to be good propaganda. Hitherto historians have concentrated on the actions and motivation of those responsible for carrying out the burnings. Left without a Handkerchief will tell the other side of the story, of history seen from the perspective of the losers.

Author Biography:

Robert O'Byrne is a trustee of the Apollo Foundation and the Artists' Collecting Society. He is author of more than a dozen books, including Hugh Lane 1875-1915 (2018) and The Last Knight: A Tribute to Desmond FitzGerald, 29th Knight of Glin (2013). He writes an award-winning blog, The Irish Aesthete.

Release date Australia

June 23rd, 2022

Author

Robert O'Byrne

Pages

192

Audience

General (US: Trade)

ISBN-13

9781843518181

Product ID

35644726

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