International Sculpture Day 2025

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

Another Chip off the Old Block – a tour for the stone mad! To celebrate International Sculpture Day this year our guide will share some more stories about Farmleigh  sculpture and sculptors. Learn about the tools of the trade and the rocky journey from quarry to statue, with insight into the life and skills of […]

Arthur Guinness: The Man Who Brewed an Empire

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

The tilted work life balance of Dublin’s Domestic Servants in the early 1900’s

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. Period dramas offer an insight into life in domestic service, but do they sometimes whitewash a starker reality ? This talk reflects on the limited opportunities and harsh terms of employment of Dublin’s domestic servants in the early decades of the […]

A Legacy of Philanthropy: The Iveagh Trust

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

Arthur Guinness – Brewer of The First (Guinness) Pint – Born in 1725 (300 years ago)

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

Traces of Classical Antiquity at Farmleigh House

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

Neighbours Talk

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

Turas Treoraithe ar Theach Farmleigh

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

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 […]

Rhythms of Light Tour

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

This talk is presented as part of the Culture Date with Dublin 8 festival. From chandeliers to candelabra, we will discover and reflect on the illuminating patterns of real and artificial light in this beautiful eclectic home. Sunday May 11th 2025 at 2.30pm. Tour lasts approximately 1 hour. Age limit 12 yrs old + Places […]

Lafcadio Hearn & W.B. Yeats: The Writers who Brought Japan to Ireland

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

'Think of an Irish "wind that shakes the barley". Then think of the East!': How Lafcadio Hearn and W.B. Yeats mirrored Japan in Ireland. W.B. Yeats cited Lafcadio Hearn for his favourite definition of poetry — ‘There is something ghostly in all great art’. Hearn was a world-famous writer when Yeats started out as a […]

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A Biographical Garden – Ireland’s Living Tribute to Lafcadio Hearn

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

An illustrated talk by Agnes Aylward on the history of the Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens in Tramore, Co. Waterford In the 10th anniversary year of the opening of the Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Gardens in Tramore, Co. Waterford, its founder and chair Agnes Aylward will give an illustrated presentation on the genesis, development and exciting future […]

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Japanese Woodblock Printing – The People Behind the Craft

Farmleigh House Farmleigh Estate, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland

An illustrated talk by Rebecca Salter, artist and President of the Royal Academy of Arts, London, introducing the craftspeople behind the materials and tools used in Japanese woodblock printing and some more unusual uses of the technique. Rebecca Salter studied at Bristol Polytechnic and then at Kyoto City University of the Arts in Japan, where […]

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