This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. Set in the historic surroundings of Farmleigh House, home of Arthur’s great grandson Edward Cecil, this tour will tell the story of a man whose determination, innovation and business acumen transformed a humble Irish stout into a global legend. Tickets will […]
This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. Join us at Farmleigh House where we will shine a light on the remarkable legacy of Edward Cecil Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh, and his role in establishing the Iveagh Trust. As the former owner of Farmleigh, Lord Iveagh was not […]
This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. Arthur founder of a brewery that would one day become the largest in the world. He moved from a very different life in a bishop’s house in Celbridge Co Kildare to Dublin, a city not for the fainthearted in the mid […]
This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. The artistic and architectural legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has had a profound influence, through the Georgian and Victorian periods in which Farmleigh House was constructed and right up to the present. In this tour you will be guided through […]
This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. Who were some of Edward Cecil Guinness' neighbours? Learn about a jilted heiress and a young boy who became a famous English statesman. A gentleman whose half-brother was a notorious dictator and a newspaper tycoon who was once described “as the […]
Tar i gcuideachta le duine dár dtreoraithe eolacha ar thuras ar Theach Farmleigh, ar lena linn a rachaidh tú ón ochtú haois déag, nuair a tosaíodh an obair tógála, suas go dtí an lá inniu. Beidh an turas seo ar siúl ar an Domhnach, 11 Bealtaine, 11 a.m. Tá an turas saor in aisce, tiocfaidh do […]
