Seanad debates
Thursday, 27 November 2003
Order of Business.
I support Senator O'Toole as regards Rice House. This would be a wonderful development in Dingle because it is a marvellously romantic story. I did not realise until Senator O'Toole raised it in the House about a year ago that there was a connection with an attempt to smuggle Marie Antoinette out of revolutionary France. It is significant that this fine building is an unusual example of a Roman Catholic merchant's house of that period. I support a debate on that and measures to defend the house. We had a descendant of Colonel Rice in the House yesterday as a guest, Professor Valentine Rice of Trinity College Dublin, who met the Leader.
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