 |  | | | Janet Todd | Wednesday 2 July 2003 | | |
 The story of the dysfunctional Anglo-Irish aristocratic family, the Kingsborough's, is told in a new book Rebel Daughters by Janet Todd set against the backdrop of the Irish conflict of 1798.
London and Dublin society was scandalised by the elopement of Mary, daughter of the Earl of Kingston, with her cousin Henry Fitzgerald in 1798.
Fitzgerald was subsequently murdered by the Earl, his own adopted father. The Earl elected to face trial before his peers, and his eldest daughter Margaret, organised a plot by the United Irishman to use the trial as a flashpoint for revolution.
Janet Todd joins Jenni to talk about her book.
Rebel Daughters: Ireland in Conflict 1798, by Janet Todd, Published 26 June 2003 by Viking, ISBN: 067091116X
BBCi History: Irish Rebellion 1798
EngLit: Janet Todd BiographyDisclaimer
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