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Boyles, Earls of Shannon

The Earls of Shannon were a powerful junior branch of the Boyle dynasty, based at Castlemartyr in East Cork. From Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon, to the post-Union decline of their parliamentary influence, this is the story of one family’s role in eighteenth-century Irish politics.

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