Left Without a Handkerchief OByrne Robert
Left Without a Handkerchief OByrne Robert On the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 January 1923, Lulu Bagwell wrote to her mother-in-law Harriet informing her the family house had been destroyed in a blaze…
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Left Without a Handkerchief OByrne Robert
On the afternoon of Wednesday, 10 January 1923, Lulu Bagwell wrote to her mother-in-law Harriet informing her the family house had been destroyed in a blaze earlier that morning. Afterwards she discovered her handbag and all the family's overcoats had been stolen. Lulu and the children had been obliged to stand shivering at gunpoint on the lawn watching the conflagration, the raiders responsible for the fire only leaving when it was too late to save Marlfield.
It is estimated that between 250 and 300 Irish country houses were burnt in the early 1920s during the course of the War of Independence and subsequent Civil War. 'We hadn't even a handkerchief, ' she lamented, 'everything has gone.'The fate of Marlfield was not unique. The reasons behind their destruction were various, but because of their scale and prominence on the Irish landscape, setting fire to them was judged by
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