Podcast 32; John Keegan and Tipperary II
From his base in Tipperary John Keegan used Bianconis cars to travel aroung the Southern counties visiting places such as the new Cistercian monastery of Mount Melleray, founded by monks expelled from the abbey of Melleray after the French Revolution in 1830, and Mitchelstown Castle home of the unstable 4th Earl of Kingston. as well as commenting on the rich and famous Keegan took note of the prevailing poverty and poor living conditions of the labouring classes he saw in the course of his work.
