Rivalries and ghosts haunt Ireland’s mansions

Ruined, hauntingly beautiful, parts of our heritage, the abandoned mansions dotted throughout the country remain a link with a long-gone Ireland of aristocracy and ascendancy.

This weekend the author of Abandoned Mansions of Ireland, Volumes 1 and 2, lavish publications featuring histories and photographs of many of those former dwellings which housed some of our most privileged ancestors, will give a talk on the subject at the 2013 Waterford Writers’ Weekend.

Tarquin Blake will take to the podium at the Waterford Medieval Museum on Saturday to speak about and show images of the Waterford ruins which have formed the basis for his work.