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The tourists queue to kiss a stone. Behind it stands the story of Gaelic Munster and how it fell. This book opens with a clear timeline of the castle, from the 1446 keep to the great gardens, then turns to the MacCarthys who built it and ruled the south. You will learn where the word "blarney" came from, why the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 broke the old order, and how the Munster Plantation put Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser on Cork land. Eleven chapters on the castle and the country it belonged to. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).
The tourists queue to kiss a stone. Behind it stands the story of Gaelic Munster and how it fell. This book opens with a clear timeline of the castle, from the 1446 keep to the great gardens, then turns to the MacCarthys who built it and ruled the south. You will learn where the word "blarney" came from, why the Battle of Kinsale in 1601 broke the old order, and how the Munster Plantation put Walter Raleigh and Edmund Spenser on Cork land. Eleven chapters on the castle and the country it belonged to. Illustrated. Digital download (PDF).