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CHRISTMAS 2013 – Herbert Place: A lovingly restored townhouse – on the street where Elizabeth Bowen lived – becomes a testing burden for a young family after the financial crash. GEORGE WASHINGTON S BED – Upper Pembroke Street: A moment of crisis – and an eighteenth-century bed – bring together an unlikely group in one of Dublin s most familiar Georgian streets. GRACE KELLY S DRESS – Merrion Square: A famous dress, a spectacular dinner party, and a dining room of family legend and of family tragedy – on the grand Georgian square which Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats, Sheridan LeFanu, and Daniel O Connell once called home.