Heritage Week 2020: Charlotte Brooke of Prosperous
It's a sad tale, but illustrates how the various recessions and depressions which we understand in the 21st century Irish economy had no less serious equivalents in the 1700s Ireland.
Charlotte had a great interest in books since she was a small child, and later developed a love of the Irish language and of antiquities. Also a talented scholar and manuscript translator, she is said to have influenced the later work of Yeats and Thomas Moore.
Almost forgotten today, her life from the Prosperous Heritage Society is a well-told five-minute read, well worth even more than that short time.
And if you haven't yet seen our own Kilcullen contribution, Camino Cill Chuilinn, then be sure to take a little more time and do so.
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