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Slemish in the far distance above Belfast Lough from the top of @HelensTower during the week...
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Helen's Tower
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Helen's Tower
@HelensTower
Built by Lord Dufferin for his Mother Helen. Architect: William Burn. Scottish Baronial style. Completed in 1861. The year of 2011 is the 150th anniversary.
Clandeboye Estate, N. Ireland Katılım Şubat 2011
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Here is tonight's TV interview on UTV - we just recorded it off the TV for anyone who missed it! [3 minutes,18 secs] youtu.be/mGX4L49oprQ
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A wonderful day of filming in art studio with @TraversSarah and @JacquiBerkeley - @UTVmag on Sunday 12th: 7:30pm @UTV
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RT @brendanjamison: Excellent review of Helen's Tower sugar sculptures in this week's South Belfast News http://lockerz.com/s/111164997
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RT @brendanjamison: HELEN'S TOWER carved sugar sculpture in SPECTATOR p15,show opens @CrescentArts June 9 http://lockerz.com/s/107232362
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Helen's Tower, here I stand,
Dominant over sea and land.
Son’s love built me, and I hold
Mother’s love in letter’d gold.
#AlfredLordTennyson
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Watercolour of Helen's Tower by Debra Wenlock: http://www.debrawenlock.co.uk/Latest_News/Buildings_Gallery/Helen_s_Tower/helen_s_tower.html
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Two poems have been written with @HelensTower as the subject; one by #AlfredLordTennyson and the other by #RobertBrowning
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The site of @HelensTower on Clandeboye Estate was used for army training by the 36th (Ulster) Division during the First World War.
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Replica: #UlsterTower, was built at Thiepval (France) in 1921 to honour the men of the 36th (Ulster) Division who died at #BattleoftheSomme
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150th anniversary: throughout 2011 #DickonHallGallery (Belfast) will be exhibiting sugar sculptures of @HelensTower by @brendanjamison
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The first in the series of Helen's Tower sugar cube sculptures by @brendanjamison were sold at Sotheby's, Bond Street, London, October 2010
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World-renowned sculptor @brendanjamison conducted research on @HelensTower in September 2008 with the aid of estate historian Lola Armstrong
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Lord Dufferin's mother Helen was a grand daughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the great Irish playwright, orator and politician.
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Helen's Tower was part of an ambitious landscape project by Lord Dufferin covering the five miles between it and the coast at Helen’s Bay
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Helen’s Tower was designed in 1848 by William Burn in the Scottish style and construction was completed in October 1861.
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