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Luggala - The Story of a Guinness House (Hardcover)
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Luggala - The Story of a Guinness House (Hardcover)
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Luggala explores "the scandals, intrigues, and heartbreaking beauty
of one of Ireland's grandest homes" (Mitchell Owens, Wall Street
Journal) that has bewitched the imagination of poets, rock stars,
dreamers and the aristocracy alike. Nestled in a secluded Irish
valley, Luggala is an exquisite eighteenth-century house at the
centre of a 5,000-acre estate. In 1937 Ernest Guinness presented
Luggala to his youngest daughter, Oonagh, who described Luggala as
'the most decorative honey pot in Ireland' and made it the centre
of a dazzling social world that included painters, poets, scholars
and socialites. In the late 1960s she passed the estate to her son,
the Hon Garech Browne, who has not only maintained but surpassed
his mother's gifts both for hospitality and for bringing together a
wide range of creative talents. Robert O'Byrne recounts this
fascinating story, which celebrates both the unique beauty of this
place and the many celebrated names irresistibly drawn there, from
writers like Robert Lowell, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, to actors
such as John Hurt and Daniel Day-Lewis, and above all musicians,
including Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, Bono and Michael
Jackson. All of them have succumbed to the enchantment of days
passed at Luggala.
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