In a week that has been dominated by Brexit, it is interesting to reflect on the unlikely connection with a charming little village in South Wicklow - Shillelagh. This is one of the prettiest villages in Ireland and is very much a "estate village", with the houses and main buildings all having been built by the local "big house", in this case, Coolattin, Irish home of the Fitzwilliam family until the 1980's. The Fitzwilliams were, by the standards of the time, liberal, progre