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The Hook Lighthouse is a building situated on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. It is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world and the second oldest operating
Hook Head Lighthouse, which was built approximately 800 years ago.
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Richard de Clare, the second Earl of Pembroke, also Lord of Leinster and Justiciar of Ireland, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman notable for his leading role in the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland. Like h
Hook Lighthouse
…However, the similar-sounding Irish word 'duán' means a fish hook, hence the English name. It is known locally as "the Hook." The tower was built by Strongbow's son-in-law William Marshall, Earl of Pembroke, who succeeded Strongbow as Lord of Leinster. Pembroke had established a port in the town of New Ross…
Strongbow
Detail of Strongbow from Daniel Maclise's painting below
The Marriage of Strongbow and Aoife (1854) by Daniel Maclise, a romanticised depiction of the union in the ruins of Waterford
Strongbow's tomb, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin