White Knights, Dark Earls: The Rise and Fall of an Anglo-Irish Dynasty
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This is an amazing story of one of the great Anglo-Irish dynasties that ruled Ireland for centuries. The White Knights, chiefs of the Clangibbon, took possession of Mitchelstown, in Cork, after 1340. The area included some of the most fertile land in Ireland which was home to Kings, barons, and earls. The White Knights had significant links with Napoleon, George IV, and Queen Charlotte, while Mary Wollstonecraft, Lord Edward Fitzgerald, Percy Bysshe and Mary Shelley, and George Bernard Shaw were intimate friends. All this ended in 1922 when the family home, Mitchelson, the largest neo-Gothic Castle in the country, was looted and burned to the ground by Republican Civil War forces. Bill Power lives in Ireland where he works as a journalist.
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