Radio review

Lesbian luminaries blessed by a queen

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Lesbian luminaries blessed by a queen

Given that there was no sex in Ireland before television, there was probably no lesbianism in Ireland before Bridie McMahon (one for the Alan Partridge obsessives there).

But someone forgot to tell Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, the two Anglo-Irish women whose love story was chronicled in Documentary On One: An Extraordinary Affair (RTE Radio 1).

In the mid-1700s, the Butlers owned half of Kilkenny, including its ...