Lillian Talbot Clarke

My great-grandmother. Mother of Kenneth Burwell Clarke, father of Richard Talbot Clarke (my father). Lillian was married to Robert Emmett Clarke -- to whom the civil war rifle used when he was 16 in the Tennessee Volunteer Militia. In the family archives, there is a framed envelope from a leter he sent "on the lines".


Talbot Castle outside Dublin, Ireland




Malahide Castle, set on 250 acres of park land in the pretty seaside town of Malahide, was both a fortress and a private home for nearly eight hundred years. The Talbot family lived here from 1185 to 1973, when the last Lord Talbot died.

A Look Around View of the Castle's Grounds

YouTube video of the Castle

The house is furnished with beautiful period furniture together with an extensive collection of Irish portrait paintings, mainly from the National Gallery. The history of the Talbot family is recorded in the Great Hall, with portraits of generations of the family telling their own story of Ireland's stormy history. One of the more poignant legends concerns the morning of the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when fourteen members of the family breakfasted together in this room, never to return, as all were dead by nightfall.

The Castle's Gardens

Private banquets are held in our medieval great Hall for 30-76 persons.

Talbot de Malahide Castle Site

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Malahide Castle is situated in Malahide Demesne, which is 16 km (10miles) north east of Dublin City off the R107.

* In 1185 Henry II of England granted 600 acres of land in Malahide to Richard Talbot. Malahide Castle was the home of the Talbot family until 1976 when the estate was sold to the Council.

* The castle was originally a Norman Tower House until the last quarter of the 18th century when it was extended and castellated.

* The remarkable apartments have not been modernised. The principal rooms are the Oak Room, the Great Hall, the two Drawing Rooms, the Library, the Nursery and the Bedrooms which are furnished with period furniture. There is also a fine Portrait collection.

* The 5th Lord Richard Talbot married Emily, great grand daughter of James Boswell, biographer of Dr. Johnson and the contents of the Boswell house came to Malahide in 1914. Among the items was the famous cabinet in which the world celebrated Boswell papers were discovered.

* The 7th Lord Milo Talbot was responsible for the internationally famous

* The Castle is run by Dublin Tourism



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