Word: classiebawn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...study of a nearly extinct species can also be read as a fascinating gloss on World War II, or as a social history of wealth and privilege in decline. It was privilege, in the end, that killed Mountbatten. His habit over the decades was to spend his summers at Classiebawn Castle, an elegant old pile he owned in the Republic of Ireland. It will stand as one of history's sad ironies that Mountbatten had never taken part in the dispute over the control of Ulster and that, in fact, the Tories counted him a dangerous left-winger...
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