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Portrait of Henry Edward Joly
Delve into the Joly family over the decades.
As part of our Homes of Literary & Visual Giants series, this talk will examine the world of three generations of the Joly family in Ireland, from 1769- 1857. From the arrival of Jean Jasper Joly in Ireland in 1769, this family made a remarkable contribution to society including, in time, to the formation of the National Library of Ireland.
Dr Ciarán Reilly is an historian of 19th & 20th Century Irish history at the Department of History, Maynooth University where is also Assistant Director of the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates. Dr Reilly is the author a number of books including The Irish Land Agent, 1830-1860: the case of King's County (published in 2014); Strokestown and the Great Irish Famine (published in 2014), and John Plunket Joly and the Great Famine in King's County (Dublin, 2012).
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