one of those protestant conversations started again today...its strange that we can joke over the arson of killeen castle by the ira in the 80's...anyone who knows the slightest about landed anglo-irish families will love this story.
protestants are like born with this information.
You say you dont know??
When the ira did their bombings and arson attacks and lynching and shit in the 70's and 80's they decide to destroy everything english in this country, nelsons pillar, Lord Mountbatten, all that shite.
someone had the bright idea of burning down peers ancestral houses, so the plunketts house was targeted.
...ONLY theres two sides of the plunkett family, the protestant and the catholic. The proddys are the lords of dunsany in dunsany castle and the catties are the earls of fingall in killeen castle, they were the same family a few hundred years ago.
But anyway the chaps who decided to burn down the plunketts house got confused...they burned down the WRONG castle. they got the catties castle.
BOY is their face red.
The fingall line is extinct now, lady fingall is buried in the village graveyard.
Used to play in dunsany castle when i was a kid, parents were friends, lady dunsany was the sweetest.
ahhhh love these stories.
TOMORROW: LORD SNOWDON'S RELATIONSHIP WITH THE EARLS OF ROSSE
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