Young Dunksy and Oscar Wilde: Friendship and Conversion From an early age, Oswald Hunter Blair had an earnest, spiritual inclination. He read the romantic adventure stories of Sir Walter Scott for hours on end, forever fascinated by Scott’s descriptions of […]
Shipwreck: Disaster Strikes off the Coast of Dunskey Castle Sir Edward Oswald Hunter Blair and his young wife, Elizabeth Wauchope, married at a small church in Edinburgh on June 1, 1850. Edward and Elizabeth eagerly escaped to his family home […]
The Spirits of Dunskey Castle The sun of the Scottish Enlightenment broke slowly in the 18th century. While leading intellectuals in Edinburgh denounced religion and superstition alike, belief in witches, demons, and a devil who walked among us died slowly […]
An Irish Dynasty at Dunskey Castle Robert Fitzgerald landed on the shores of Scotland without family, friends, or money. He was the banished son of a powerful, Norman family in Ireland, but he broke the sacred laws of chivalric hierarchy […]
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