Dunsany: Horace Plunkett, Killeen Castle, Dunsany, Dunsany Castle and Demesne, Baron of Dunsany, Reginald Plunkett, John Plunkett

by Lord Dunsany

Chapters: Horace Plunkett, Killeen Castle, Dunsany, Dunsany Castle and Demesne, Baron of Dunsany, Reginald Plunkett, John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 41. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett PC, KCVO, FRS, DL, JP (24 October 1854 26 March 1932), was an Anglo-Irish unionist, later Irish nationalist, agricultural reformer, pioneer of agricultural co-operation, politician and Member of Parliament (MP), author and Irish patriot. He was a member of the Congested Districts Board, Ireland, 1891-1918; Founder of Recess Committee and Irish Agricultural Organisational Society (IAOS); Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction (DATI) for Ireland from Oct. 1899 to May 1907; MP. for South Dublin (1892-1900) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland; Chairman of the Irish Convention, 1917-18 . An adherent of Home Rule, he founded 1914 (-1922) the Irish Dominion League to keep Ireland united, and in 1922 he became a member of the new Irish Free State Senate, Seanad Eireann. Horace was the third son of Admiral Edward Plunkett, 16th Baron of Dunsany, of Dunsany Castle in the Irish Peerage of the Barons of Dunsany, Dunsany, near Dunshaughlin, County Meath, Ireland and the Hon. Anne Constance Dutton (d.1858) (daughter of 2nd Baron Sherborne). He was of Protestant Irish unionist background, educated at Eton College and University College, Oxford of which college he became honorary fellow in 1909. His younger brother was John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany and his cousin Count George Noble Plunkett father of Joseph Mary Plunkett. Threatened by lung trouble in 1879, he sought health in ranching for ten years (1879-1889) in Wyoming's Bighor...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=238484

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First published May 25, 2010

About the author

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, eighteenth baron of Dunsany, was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work in fantasy published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes hundreds of short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, he lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, received an honourary doctorate from Trinity College, and died in Dublin.