Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020
Connect Through Culture Exploring Farmleigh Archives For Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir 2020, Farmleigh Tour Guides present a video from Farmleigh Library looking at what it says in the papers on Friday 18th September 1868. Continuing with a theme from our Heritage...
Discover the History of the Gate Lodge
by Aisling Randles, Office of Public Works, Farmleigh. Castle, monastery and city gates had existed for centuries, but the small lodge at the entrance to the country mansion was an eighteenth and nineteenth century phenomenon. The gates with their lodges were built to...
The Cross Cultural Heritage of Farmleigh’s Hina Matsuri Dolls
by Margaret Soden, Office of Public Works, Farmleigh. If you were asked to jot down five objects that signify the material culture of Japan, what would you come up with? My list includes, The Kimono, Samurai warriors, Sushi, that wave print (I now know as The Great...
Dr. Dave Flynn, Composer, Writer-in-Residence
OPW and Farmleigh are delighted to welcome – for the first time under its Writer-in-Residence programme – a contemporary composer from Ireland, Dave Flynn. We are looking forward to a truly imaginative residency which will give Dave a wonderful opportunity...
