Lord FitzGerald’s Domesday book

Peter harbison remembers the antiquarian Lord Walter Fitzgerald


Lord FitzGerald’s Domesday book
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Epitaphs and history were his passion. Through his multitudinous publications on these subjects, Lord Walter FitzGerald (1858-1923) was one of the most respected and valued antiquarians in the Ireland of his day over a hundred years ago (Fig 1). Today his name will be known to far too few beyond the aficionados of tombstone inscriptions (a rare and elite breed). Nonetheless, it is worth bringing him out of the shadows and proclaiming his achievements to a wider audience.

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