Bryce House Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. Roland Bryce bequeathed Garinish Island to the Irish State in 1953. This was carried out by passing the island over to Éamon de Valera, who held this particular position as head of Government at that time
  2. 5. The initial location meant for the large marble fireplace in the dining room
  3. 7. A relative of Violet Bryce, who had the title of Countess and was a revolutionary, nationalist politician
  4. 9. Towards the end of Annan's career he became a type of politician that did not take a typically conservative stance
  5. 13. The religion of the head housekeeper Margaret O'Sullivan
  6. 15. The general part of the world that Annan travelled and worked in
  7. 18. Annan invested in the oilfields of this country but lost money due to their nationalisation and also a period of political and social revolution that followed
  8. 19. The name for women like Margery Bryce, who sought the right to vote through organised protest
  9. 20. The surname of the Irish author and philosopher who wrote from clock tower
  10. 21. The Bryce family put these in their wind-up gramophone in order to listen to music
  11. 24. An event in Irish history that happened in the easter of the same year that Annan wrote his gardening diary
  12. 25. The christian name of a French heroine that Margery Bryce chose as a symbol of strong womanhood
Down
  1. 1. A hotel in Glengarriff that Violet turned into a home for soldiers to rest and recover in
  2. 3. This Irish name was also used by the Bryce family for Garinish Island and it translates to 'Island of Holly'
  3. 4. The Bryce family are credited with providing this to approximately one hundred local people while they were developing Garinish Island
  4. 6. As well as being a garden designer Harold Ainsworth Peto also had this profession
  5. 8. The saint represented by the carved lions to be seen in many of the marbles
  6. 10. Rosalind Bryce was the only one of her siblings to take this legal vow in a religious ceremony
  7. 11. Nigel Bryce wrote one of these about Garinish Island when he was just sixteen years of age
  8. 12. While Roland and Nigel Bryce received a formal education, Margery and Rosalind received their education through another method, which was common practice for girls at the time
  9. 14. A movement that involved a renewed interest in aspects of Celtic or Gaelic culture and resulted in many Irish dignitaries visiting the Bryce's at Garinish Island
  10. 16. Murdo Mackenzie planted these in order to make a shelter belt around the edge of Garinish Island
  11. 17. The pen name of George Russell, the Irish artist and writer who painted a landscape hanging in Violet's bedroom
  12. 22. A small kitchen instrument that was used to whip cream and also beat cream into butter
  13. 23. Roland Bryce's career in the British Foreign Office