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A Short History of Mountjoy Square – August 2014
Nobody was quite sure why Luke Gardiner, 1st Viscount Mountjoy, took it into his head to gallop straight at the enemy lines like that. Some said he was seeking a parlay with the rebels. There’s merit in the argument. The 53-year-old property developer had long been a friend of Catholic Ireland. Twenty years earlier, he […]