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“Just because one is born in a stable does not make him a horse.” Irish emancipator Daniel
O'Connell retorted, “Yes, but it could make you an ass.”
Afterwards, wander the expansive manicured
gardens.
The fantasy life of parasol-tot-
ing, upper-crust Victorian society seems to ooze from every viewpoint. Fanciful sculptures
of extinct dodo birds and monkeys holding vases on their heads set off predictably clas-
sic Italian and Spanish sections. An Irish harp has been trimmed out of a hedge a few feet
from a flowerbed shaped like the Red Hand of Ulster. Swans glide serenely among the lily
pads on a small lake.
