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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 27. Chapters: Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany, Norman Stronge, Ian Freeland, John Sherwood-Kelly, William Long, Robert Johnston, Charles Medhurst, Archibald Murray, John Brooke, 2nd Viscount Brookeborough, Herbert Dixon, 1st Baron Glentoran, James Alexander, 4th Earl of Caledon, John Hardress Lloyd, Francis Stronge, Robert Lowry, Baron Lowry, Charles Clements, 5th Earl of Leitrim, Travers Clarke, Tom F. Hazell, Ivone Kirkpatrick, Robert Alexander, John Neptune Sargent, Eric Norman Frankland Bell, James Samuel Emerson, Cyril Falls, Sir Ronald Ross, 2nd Baronet, Gerald Robert O'Sullivan, Sir James Stronge, 5th Baronet, Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore, James Myles, Joseph Aloysius Byrne, Robert Torrens O'Neill, Armine Dew, Galbraith Lowry-Corry, 7th Earl Belmore, Charles Falls, J. G. Mayne, Daniel Martin Wilson, Forde Leathley, William Crozier. Excerpt: Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany (24 July 1878 - 25 October 1957) was an Anglo-Irish writer and dramatist, notable for his work, mostly in fantasy, published under the name Lord Dunsany. More than eighty books of his work were published, and his oeuvre includes many hundreds of published short stories, as well as successful plays, novels and essays. Born to one of the oldest titles in the Irish peerage, Dunsany lived much of his life at perhaps Ireland's longest-inhabited home, Dunsany Castle near Tara, worked with W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, received an honorary doctorate from Trinity College, was chess and pistol-shooting champion of Ireland, and travelled and hunted extensively. He died in Dublin after an attack of appendicitis. Edward Plunkett (Dunsany) was the first son of John William Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (1853-1899) and his wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Ernle-Erle-Drax, nee Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria...
