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Enniscorthy Castle is an imposing Norman stronghold, which dates from 1205 and was a private dwelling until 1951. The castle was built by the DePrendergasts. In the early 1580s, the poet Edmund Spenser leased the property that included the castle. [4] The castle was also once owned by Sir Henry Wallop.
Edmund Spenser (1552/53–1599) Confiscated by the Crown after the Second Desmond Rebellion (1579–1583), the castle passed to Philip Sidney . He granted it, together with 3,028 acres (12.25 km 2 ) of land, to Edmund Spenser around 1586–1587. [ 7 ]
Edmund Spenser (/ ˈ s p ɛ n s ər /; born 1552 or 1553; died 13 January O.S. 1599) [2] [3] was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the ...
A portrait of Edmund Spenser. A View of the Present State of Irelande is a political pamphlet written in 1596 by English writer, poet and soldier Edmund Spenser.The text is written in the form of a dialogue between two Englishmen, Eudox and Irenius; the former has never been to Ireland, while the latter has recently returned from the island while it was in the midst of the Protestant Tudor ...
[citation needed] At the outbreak of the Desmond Rebellions, the Viscount Buttevant joined the rebels and on the subsequent confiscations of his estates, the friary in Buttevant, together with its glebe, passed into the hands of Edmund Spenser in the Munster Plantation, one of the first of the Plantations of Ireland.
The House of Pride is a notable setting in Edmund Spenser's epic poem The Faerie Queene (1590, 1596). The actions of cantos IV and V in Book I take place there, and readers have associated the structure with several allegories pertinent to the poem.
In August, SafeHome.org released a report that found Miami Beach — among the most popular tourist destinations in Florida — had a property crime rate of 8,557 incidents per 100,000 residents ...
The Brick House now called The Kilns Hotel. The Brick House in Great Warley, Essex, is a Grade II listed building which is on the English Heritage Register. [1] The main part of the building is a Queen Anne structure which was built in the early 18th century but part of the house dates back to the 16th century.