CULTURE NIGHT: Finding the Fighting Fitzgerald with Patrick Butler

Name: CULTURE NIGHT: Finding the Fighting Fitzgerald with Patrick Butler
Start: 2025-09-19T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-19T20:00:00+01:00
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park

Schedule

Fri Sep 19 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

National Museum of Ireland, Turlough Park | Castlebar, MO

This Culture Night, the National Museum is delighted to present a special talk with Patrick Butler, a writer and local historian who lived in Turlough Park House for almost 40 years.
Patrick will deliver a fascinating talk on the subject of his latest book - the colourful and ultimately tragic figure of George Robert ‘Fighting Fitzgerald’.
Discover the many twists and turns in the life of this famous duellist and rebel – considered one of Ireland’s most dangerous personalities in the mid-1700s and hanged for murder in Castlebar at the age of 38.
This talk will also celebrate the 160th anniversary of Turlough Park House, a Victorian Gothic ‘big house’ built in 1865 by the Fitzgerald family.
Suitable for adults. Admission is free. Booking is required. Telephone +353 94 9031751 or email [email protected].

About the speaker
Patrick Butler lived at Turlough Park from childhood until 1991. He has extensive insight and knowledge of the Fitzgerald family history. He has carried out in-depth research for his initial book ‘Turlough Park and the Fitzgeralds’. Now, he has carried out further research and identified new, previously unpublished material for his new book ‘Fighting Fitzgerald’ – which charts the turbulent life and terrible death of the Mayo legend, George Robert Fitzgerald. It is published by Mayo Books.