Antrim , Countes Angela — The Antrim Mcdonnells

Ulster Television, 1977. Hardcover. The strory of the Antrim McDonnells told graphically in sketches and text by Countess Lady Antrim. From 1927 until 1932, she trained as a sculptor in Brussels and then Rome and then worked in London until she married in 1934.Then she was based at Glenarm but exhibited in London and Belfast throughout her life. Rooms in Glenarm Castle were decorated with her murals and sculptures.She also fell in love with stories of her husband's ancestors, describing them as the wildest of Gaelic chieftains,he was inspired to create an illustrated history of the McDonnells and this was completed just a week before her husband, the Earl of Antrim, died. The forward by John Betjeman relates that the McDonnell family has its eccentrics and one of the most splendid was the eleventh earl known as Buzzard. 65p profusely illustrated with cartoon sketches; endpaper maps of Ireland and Scotlamnd. the large boards aregapig slightly and there is a neat gift inscription on the front pastedown. A frwmionor marks but still VG. See scans and send for more.The book is in very good consdition . Very Good