The Irish Garden: A Cultural History

Irish gardens are unique due to the climate, soils, availability of plants, and skills of green-fingered people. They tend to avoid magnificence in favor of a quiet and domesticated beauty, and are often seen as reflections of historical, cultural, political, and religious events and values. The Irish Garden is a rhapsody on themes of Irishness, showing the spirit and soul of Ireland more clearly in these places than in more conventionally visited locations.

Format: Paperback / softback
Publication date: 07 July 2022
Publisher: The History Press Ltd

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Is there something especially Irish about Irish gardens? The climate, soils, availability of plants, and skills of green-fingered people generate an unusually benign environment, its true, but not one that is unique to Ireland. Irish gardens tend to avoid magnificence in favor of a quiet and domesticated beauty, but that is not peculiar to Ireland either. Strains of Irishness run through these gardens like seams of ore. Seen not just as zones of horticultural bravura, but also as reflections of historical, cultural, political, and religious events and values, the gardens accrue an unusual richness of surface and depth of meaning. Atmospherically illustrated by Brian Lalor, The Irish Garden wanders into individual gardens, rather than presenting a sweeping chronology. This book is a rhapsody on themes of Irishness, as if the spirit and soul of Ireland itself were sometimes more visible in these places than in the more conventionally visited locations of battlefields, breweries, and bars.

Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780750998093
Edition number: 2 ed