History talk at Portumna Castle & Gardens

Portumna Castle and Gardens are delighted to announce that Dr Bernadette Cunningham will present her talk 'Countesses of Clanricard and their daughters in seventeenth-century Portumna' on Sunday, September 10, at 3pm in Portumna Castle Gallery. This presentation will concentrate on the influential ladies of the Burke family in 17th century Portumna.

Booking is advised as places are limited.

Contact Portumna Castle on 046 9422900 or e-mail portumnacastle@opw.ie.

Bemadette is a graduate of University College Galway and University College Dublin and was Deputy Librarian at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. She is the author of The World of Geoffrey Keating (Dublin, 2000); The Annals of the Four Masters: Irish history, kingship and society in the early seventeenth century (Dublin, 2010); and Clanricard and Thomond, 1540-1640, provincial politics and society transformed (Dublin, 2012). She was editor of Irish History Online from 2010 to 2021 and is currently writing a book on the social world of Frances Walsingham, wife of the fourth Earl of Clanricard.