Happy memories of Adare Manor during the young life of Miss Mollie Wyndham-Quin are detailed at the beginning of the recording. Her grandfather, Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl and his wife Eva, Countess of Dunraven, lived at the Manor during those years. Mollie recalls the many occasions on which she hunted there and took part in point-to-point races. Visits to the Dunraven family summerhouse at Derrynane in South Kerry are also fondly remembered. Mollie’s earliest memories were formed at Castletown Cox in Co. Kilkenny where her grandparents lived before her grandfather inherited the Dunraven title and estates on the death, in 1926, of his first cousin, Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, the 4th Earl of Dunraven. The influence of her governess at Castletown Cox, who introduced her to wild flowers and birds, is mentioned. Another strongly positive influence in this respect came through her mother, Marjorie Wyndham-Quin, who was a keen gardener. Mollie admits that she herself was not much interested in study at that early age. Later memories of fishing on the River Maigue which flows through the Dunraven Estate, and wonderful days of fox-hunting are described in detail. Mollie’s aunt, Lady Olein, who also lived on the Estate, and who mentored Mollie in horseriding, is fondly recalled. She was also a keen golfer and she regularly played on the Dunraven Golf Course, established in 1900. It was handed over to the Adare Golf Club trustees in the 1980s. Mollie explains that her father, Captain Valentine Wyndham-Quin, served in the Royal Navy for the duration of both World Wars and, of necessity, spent long periods away from home. The Dunraven Estate on the Glamorganshire coast in South Wales is discussed and the “Blue Lady” who would frequently appear at Dunraven Castle there is mentioned. Sadly, the castle was demolished in the 1960s. Mollie explains that she feels totally Irish, and that her roots are very much in Co. Limerick. The staff at Ada