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Anglo-Irish families and declining fortunes - Links
« on: Monday 03 March 08 19:48 GMT (UK) »
The Irish writer Joyce Cary (1888-1957) belonged to one of these families. He was born in Londonderry (where his maternal grandfather, a Mr Joyce, was the manager of the Belfast Bank) on 7th December 1888. His father, descended from an Anglo-Irish family whose fortunes had declined, was a civil engineer in England. As a young boy Joyce Cary spent many holidays in the Inishowen peninsula in Co. Donegal, though Castle Cary, the former family estate, between Moville and Carrowkeel, and other big houses had passed out of the family. The family lost their Inishowen estate after the introduction of the Irish Land Act in 1882. Many years ago, when visiting my grandparents in Barnstaple I saw the film, The Horse's Mouth, which was based on one of Cary's novels.

Strictly speaking "Fortune's Daughters" by Elisabeth Kehoe isn't about Anglo-Irish families. It's about a the daughters of a high living New Yorker, Leonard Jerome, whose speciality appeared to be making and losing fortunes. One of his girls married Lord Randolph Churchill in 1874 and the youngest married Jack Leslie, the son of an Anglo-Irish baronet, whose family owned an estate in County Monaghan. www.arlindo-correia.com/180305.html