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From: "John Heueston" <>
Subject: Re: No FITZGERALD Dukes?
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001 05:58:31 GMT
References: <2.2.32.20010402035544.006ac324@mail.jps.net>


The Dail, the Irish Parliament meet in Leinster House, Kildare St., Dublin
which was once the town house of the Dukes of Leinster.
Lord Edward Fitzgerald(1763-1798) was the younger son of the first Duke of
Leinster.

John Heueston,Irish Family History Society

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http://homepage.eircom.net/~ifhs )
Pat Traynor <> wrote in message
news:...
> Here's an item from LocalIreland.ie, referring to a Fitzgerald
> Duchess of Leinster. If there was a Duchess, didn't there have to be a
Duke?
>
> "The National Library has announced the acquisition
> of the Papers of the Fitzgerald family of Kildare,
> the Earls of Leinster. The full collection,
> totaling about 800 letters and other documents,
> throws new light on one of Irish history's most
> important families. In particular they shed further
> light on Lord Edward Fitzgerald, one of the leaders
> of the 1798 Rebellion.
>
> The Papers have been in private hands for the last
> 200 years. Because of their political sensitivity,
> it was thought by scholars of the period that they
> had been destroyed.
>
> The Fitzgerald family has received renewed
> attention in recent times with the publication and
> television dramatisation of Aristocrats which
> portrayed the lives Lord Edward's mother, Emily
> Duchess of Leinster and her three sisters. For
> anyone interested in the social and political
> history of the latter half of the eighteenth
> century, the Papers are sure to add greater dept to
> our understanding of the family and of this
> important period."
>
> Patrick Traynor, in California's gold-rush country.
> TRAYNOR'S Web Page (Irish stuff) http://members.nbci.com/pattraynor/
>


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