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After World War I the remnants of the Anglo Irish landlord class, found themselves marooned in a new, more democratic social world which some of them resented as plutocratic and vulgar.

In the decades preceding the 1916 Rising, an extraordinary revolution had already taken place in rural Ireland. The British government had lost its patience with Irish landlords who owned 95 per cent of the land of Ireland (100 percent of county Galway was landlord owned), and had largely squandered their wealth leaving themselves vulnerable to poor harvests, successive seasons of bad weather, and an increasingly impoverished tenantry.

An exhibition celebrating the generations of families, faces and memories connected to Enniscoe House and Estate will be officially opened on Saturday, August 10 at 3pm by Professor Terence Dooley. Admission to the exhibition is free and open to all and it will run until Sunday, September 15.