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Montpelier Hill (Irish: Cnoc Montpelier) [2] is a 383-metre (1,257 foot) hill in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] It is topped by the Hell Fire Club (Irish: Club Thine Ifreann), [3] the popular name given to the ruined building.
A founder member of the Hell-Fire Club, Parsons was a notable Libertine (and nihilist [citation needed]), rebelling against the norms of the day [citation needed].He wrote the book Dionysus Rising after a trip to Egypt where he claimed to have found Dionysian scrolls looted from the Great Library of Alexandria.
The first official Hellfire Club was founded in London in 1718, by Philip Wharton, 1st Duke of Wharton and a handful of other high-society friends. The most notorious club associated with the name was established in England by Francis Dashwood, [ 5 ] and met irregularly from around 1749 to around 1760, and possibly up until 1766.
Lord Barry of Santry seems to have been an extreme example of an eighteenth-century rake, a man of quarrelsome and violent nature, and a heavy drinker.He was a member of the notorious Dublin Hellfire Club: it is said that the club's reputation never fully recovered from the sensational publicity surrounding his trial for murder, although there is no reason to think that any of his fellow ...
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Killakee House was a large Georgian house and estate near Rathfarnham in County Dublin, Ireland.It was built in c.1806 for Luke White, an Irish politician and bookseller and was the centrepiece of a 3,400-acre estate, but was demolished in 1941 after many years of vacancy.
Articles related to the various incarnations of the Hellfire Club and their members. They were exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Pages in category "Hellfire Club"
The Hellfire Club was a name for several exclusive clubs for high-society rakes established in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century. Hellfire Club may also refer to: Film