Last night New York City came to Holland Park in Quick Fantastic’s production of Leonard Bernstein’s Wonderful Town.
June Gleanings
I find it some consolation that whatever indignities the Catholic Church has suffered in recent years, it retains its pre-eminence in the art of casuistry. (Letter in The Times from Sir Richard Stagg about the Prime Minister’s marriage at Westminster Cathedral) 10th September 2012. The idea of His Blondness with a finger on the nuclear button… Continue reading June Gleanings
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Rebellion Extinction
The first creation of the Bellew Barony only lasted three generations. A tombstone in Duleek tells the fate of John, 1st Lord Bellew. ”This Tomb hath been repaired and The Vault made by Dame Mary Bermingham Of Dunsert, Wife to John, Lord Bellew, Who was shot in the Belly in Aughrim Fight the twelfth of… Continue reading Rebellion Extinction
A Baron and an Outlaw
“In the Parliament of 1639, Sir John Bellew of Willystown, was Knight for the County of Louth; married Mary, 2nd Daughter to Robert Dillon of Clonbrock, Esq and had Sir Patrick Bellew of Bellew-Mount, otherwise Bermeath (sic) in that County, who had a Grant of Lands under the Acts of Settlement in 1678, and 6… Continue reading A Baron and an Outlaw
Where There’s a Will …
The Ancient Family of Bellew
“In the Reign of Edward I lived John de Bellew, who married Laderina, youngest of the four Sisters and Coheirs of Peter de Bruce, descended from the same Lineage as the Kings of Scotland, who died in 1271, and Daughter of Peter de Bruce, who died the 6th of that Reign, with whom he had… Continue reading The Ancient Family of Bellew