Arthur Wellesley

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Abbey Leix Estate
To the manor born? Nine country estates to buy now

Abbey Leix Estate Address: Abbeyleix, Co Laois Value: €20m-plus Agents: Colliers and Sotheby’s Designed in 1773 by noted architect James Wyatt, and (...)

Question 100: What was Father Ted’s routine explanation for alleged financial misconduct?
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness

What was Father Ted’s money doing? What did Mary Robinson’s electors rock in 1990? And could Lindsay Lohan play soccer for the Republic of Ireland? (...)

Francisco Goya and ‘the greatest anti-war manifesto in all art’

Around 1810, the pre-eminent painter at the Spanish court, Francisco Goya, was in his 60s and had been quite deaf for many years when he began to work(...)

Grangebeg House, Dunlavin, Co Kildare: Georgian house on 64 acres for €1.5 million.
Escape to idyllic Kildare countryside for €1.5m

The owner of Grangebeg has a photograph of her daughter on a pony in the stable yard at the house. “It was a riding school then, and I took the photo (...)

A Walk for the Weekend: A ramble in Ballincollig Weirs
  • Travel
  • January 20, 2016, 12:00

N ature and history are cut from the same cloth, and Ballincollig Regional Park offers both in equal measure. Known locally as the Weirs or the Powde(...)