Birchfield House, courtesy Hugh Weir
This article examines
the caricature generally presented of the colourful and influential Cornelius
O’Brien of Birchfield House,
Liscannor,
who for half a century dominated the narrow peninsula between the Cliffs
of Moher and Liscannor Bay, a region which, even today, still seems permeated
by his personality.
Liscannor,
who for half a century dominated the narrow peninsula between the Cliffs
of Moher and Liscannor Bay, a region which, even today, still seems permeated
by his personality.