by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In this episode, the Hon. Edith Dillon Mahon gives an account of a 6 month residency in Dublin due to her father & mother’s work commitments that came to an end when grandpapa’s (Lord Clonbrock) health declines. She then recounts eloquently on the last...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 15, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In this episode, Hon. Edith Dillon Mahon provides further insights into life at baronial Clonbrock incl on how a rigid social divide existed even amongst servants; on the huge stables at Clonbrock that housed animals, stable boys & a range of carriages, & on...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 14, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In this episode, the Hon Edith Dillon Mahon reminisces about the close bond that existed between herself and her nursery maid whom she affectionally knew as ‘Mamie’. She also provides interesting insights on the importance of religion observance in the...
by Irish Beo Author | Jan 14, 2010 | To the Manor Born
In old age the Honourable Edith Dillon Mahon, daughter of Lord Luke Dillon, fourth baron of Clonbrock, wrote a fascinatiing account of her childhood memories at the ancestral home in Ahasragh county Galway during the late Victorian period when the Anglo-Irish...
