The Monks of the Screw

The real founder was John Philpot Curran, a convivial and popular wit and a lawyer at the Irish Bar.

The members were liberal by contemporary standards, and some assisted in the first reforms of the penal laws.

The members had to wear a black poplin gown and generally met in Kevin Street, Dublin, or at Curran's house "The Priory", near Rathfarnham.

[2] The membership included Lord Mornington, Lord Townshend (a former viceroy of Ireland), John Philpot Curran, Barry Yelverton, Father Arthur O'Leary, George Ogle, Henry Grattan, Walter Hussey Burgh, Dudley Hussey, Henry Flood, Arthur Wolfe, Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, Jonah Barrington, William Tankerville Chamberlain, Dudley Hussey, Matthias Finucane, Henry Duquerry and James Dennis.

An eponymous Irish traditional music band comes from Sliabh Luachra in County Cork.