Perhaps it’s reassuring to know that people have always been awful, and when a person is powerful, they’ve always found ways to avoid accountability. Which brings us back to a contested incident in Ireland’s County Roscommon back in 1852 – was Mary Anne Talbot engaged in an adulterous affair as her husband claimed, or was John Talbot spearheading a violent conspiracy to lose an infertile wife and keep his ancestral home?

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Stacie’s Receipts

An Unhappy Tale « The Irish Aesthete

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