Robert O'Byrne: The Last Knight

by O'byrne, Robert

ISBN: 9781843514084

Published: 2013-10-15

When Desmond FitzGerald died in September 2011, obituaries paid tribute to his involvement with organizations such as the Irish Georgian Society and the Irish Architectural Archive. But over the previous decades, Desmond had achieved much more than has yet been realized. Not only did he battle to save his own ancestral home, Glin Castle, from destitution but he also helped to ensure the survival of many other historic houses in Ireland, raising large sums of money at home and overseas for this cause. Without his passion and commitment Ireland's architectural and artistic heritage today would be much the poorer. 'The Last Knight' is a celebration of the enormous amount that Desmond managed to do before his death, but it is also an assessment of the man.