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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Tyrone House and the St George Family: The Story of an Anglo-Irish Family

Tyrone House and the St George Family: The Story of an Anglo-Irish Family

O'Byrne, Robert

Paperback

General ArchitectureGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1543422195
ISBN13: 9781543422191
Publisher: Xlibris Corp
Published: Aug 2 2017
Pages: 164
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.43 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Located on a prominent site overlooking Galway Bay in the west of Ireland, Tyrone House was once one of the country's finest Georgian mansions. Dating from the 1770s, the building was home to generations of the French and St George families, a powerful symbol of their wealth and power. The interior of the house was lavishly decorated and furnished, beginning with the entrance hall, dominated by a life-size marble statue of Lord St George. But despite their advantages, over the course of the nineteenth century, the family went into irreversible decline and eventually forsook their great residence, which was destroyed by fire in 1920. This book tells the story of the rise and fall of the St Georges and their fate, embodied in what became of Tyrone House, which is today a little more than a gaunt ruin.

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