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This book is one of the most remarkable and the most entertaining of its kind ever published about late Victorian and Edwardian Ireland.'- Peter Costello, Sunday Independent.'A woman of considerable style and substance, her autobiography gives a fascinating glimpse into the social and political life in Ireland at the turn of the century.'- Deidre McQuillan, Sunday Tribune.'These memories are crammed with interesting, revealing and often funny stories about people like the Balfours, Horace Plunkett, King Edward VII and a host of famous politicians.'- Caitriona Clear, Linen Hall Review. Seventy Years Young is one of the great Anglo-Irish memoirs. Originally published in 1937, it now appears for the first time in paperback, with an introduction by Trevor West. It tells the remarkable story of Daisy Fingall (née Burke) of County Galway, who in 1883, aged seventeen, married the 11th Earl of Fingall of Killeen Castle, County Meath. Daisy's vitality possessed and transformed that twilit world of Catholic Ascendancy Ireland, a world in transition - from viceregal, country-house Ireland of Dublin drawing-rooms and Meath hunting-fields, now as remote as pre-revolutionary Russia - to the Grea

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Author

Elizabeth Fingall, Pamela Hinkson, Fingall, Elizabeth Mary Margaret Burke Plunkett countess of

Publisher

The Lilliput Press in association with Carty/Lynch

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780946640744

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Memoir, History, Biography

Rating

4 / 5 (9 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14