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Oak Lodge, Duleek, Co. Meath

Antoinette Moynihan confesses that, though she is pure-bred Irish, a part of her has always felt curiously French. Perhaps it was simply her Christian name, a swirl of petticoat, a slice of cake and, in time, the tragedy of a guillotine. “Or maybe I was a maid in a 16th century château in a former […]