castlerosse

Updated: July 17, 2025

Lord Castlerosse, the only passenger in the compartment, by way of relieving her obvious agitation, tried to calm her by telling her she could change at the next station. 'Is it me that can be aisy, she replied, 'when it's my Pat is driving the engine, and him having a dhrop taken, and saying he'll take us a shpin round the Head?

Samuel Murray Hussey - The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent

There was one stage of the performance which neither I nor Lord Castlerosse, both of us newly married, at all appreciated. This was the privileges of the Green-room, or rather of the dressing-rooms. The exhibition was given in the ball-room. On one side of this, until the night of the performances, an enclosure was boarded off.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

What kind of assistance was offered or accepted, Castlerosse and I, being on the wrong side of the boarding, were not in a position to know. There was a door in the boarding, over which one expected to see, 'No admittance except on business, or perhaps, 'on pleasure. At this door I rapped, and rapped again impatiently. It was opened, only as wide as her face, by the empress.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

But, as nearly all these depended less upon the beauties of drapery than upon those of nature, the English ladies were more than a little staggered by the demands of the painter and of the UNdressers. To the young and handsome Lady Castlerosse, then just married, was allotted the figure of Diana.

Henry J. (Henry John) Coke - Tracks of a Rolling Stone

Reverting to Lord Kenmare, the following story, which in another version recently won a railway story competition in some newspaper, really pertains to his son Lord Castlerosse. On a line in Kerry there is a sharp curve overhanging the sea. An old woman in a great state of nervous agitation was bundled at the last moment into a first-class compartment.

Samuel Murray Hussey - The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent