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The Irish Garden - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The Irish Garden - A Cultural History (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Don't leave yet. Let there be one more piece of magic to remember
the place by. 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,
it's true, but not one that is unique to Ireland. Irish gardens
tend to avoid magnificence in favour 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.
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