It has been announced that Devonshire Day at Lismore Castle will take place on Sunday 16 March 2014. Devonshire Day is a special opportunity for guests to Lismore Castle to enjoy afternoon tea in the Pugin Room and experience a preview of the castle's spring gardens.
Devonshire Day is now an annual traditional at the castle; guests are served Devonshire Cream Tea by the Duke’s Butler in the banqueting hall and are then offered a tour of the Castle Gardens with the Head Gardener- neither of these opportunities are usually available to visitors.
Devonshire Day is a fundraiser for the Immrama Festival of Travel which takes place this year from 12-15 June.
There will be five sittings on 16 March: at 11.30am, 12.40pm, 1.50pm, 3.00pm and 4.10pm. Tickets are €20.00 per person and can be booked by calling 058 53365.
Monday, February 10, 2014
Thursday, April 18, 2013
International authors set for Immrama Lismore Festival of Travel Writing 2013
This year's festival programme was launched by Brian White, Deputy County Manager, Waterford County Council at a reception in Lismore Castle on Thursday evening (April 18).
One of the world's most highly-regarded travel writers, Paul Theroux will take to the stage at Immrama on Saturday, June 15 at 3pm. Perhaps best known for Ghost Train to the Eastern Star and The Great Railway Bazaar, his most recent work is The Last Train to Zona Verde: My Ultimate African Safari. Paul Theroux's highly acclaimed novels include Blinding Light, Hotel Honolulu, My Other Life, Kowloon Tong, and The Mosquito Coast. Among his travel books are Ghost Train to the Eastern Star, Dark Star Safari, Riding the Iron Rooster, The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and The Happy Isles of Oceania. He lives in Hawaii and on Cape Cod and is the father of British authors and documentary makers Louis and Marcel Theroux.
He worked as Northern Ireland correspondent for The Guardian newspaper during some of the early and most turbulent years of the Troubles, covering the introduction of internment; Bloody Sunday and Operation Motorman. He was Britain's Journalist of the Year in 1971 and his time in Northern Ireland was the basis for his first book, In Holy Terror. The following year saw him move to Washington DC as US Correspondent and he also later worked as India Correspondent for The Guardian.
He was Chief Foreign Feature Writer with the Sunday Times and was on the Falkland Islands when they were invaded by Argentina - later spending three months in an Argentine jail. He later worked as Asia Editor with Conde Nast Traveler. In 1998, he had an unexpected international publishing success with The Professor and the Madman. The most recent of his 22 books are The Man Who Loved China; Atlantic: A Biography of the Ocean and The Alice Behind Wonderland.
Also joining the two keynote speakers is bestselling writer and award-winning broadcaster Charlie Connelly whose books include Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round The Shipping Forecast; In Search of Elvis and Our Man in Hibernia: Ireland, the Irish and Me. His most recent work Bring Me Sunshine deals with the perennial conversation topic of weather.
Opening the festival on Thursday, June 13 are Irish writers Theresa McDonnell, author of What have you got in your bag? featuring her stories as an aid worker; Monica Corish who spent many years travelling and working in Africa from 1983 to 2006 and Kieran Heffernan who has contributed to numerous books and magazines.
On Friday, June 14, Liz Davies and Hilary Linstead who co-wrote 'Growing old outrageously' will entertain festival-goers. Hilary and Liz were old school friends living on opposite sides of the world when suddenly after 35 years they reconnected and have since journeyed together to create a comical travel book.
On the morning of June 15, Donald Brady will discuss the 'Watercolor Society of Ireland', which was founded in Lismore in 1870. John Dwyer will host a workshop on E-publishing and Rachel Finnegan will host a reading at St Carthage's Cathedral discussing her publications of the travel correspondence of two 18th century travellers Dr Richard Pococke (later Bishop of Ossory & Meath) and his cousin Jeremiah Milles (later Dean of Exeter), who both began their clerical careers in the Diocese of Waterford & Lismore under the patronage of their uncle, Bishop Thomas Milles.
And bringing the festival to a close on Sunday evening, June 16, are two writers originally from Lismore. John O'Keeffe who left Lismore in his teens to take his own journey around the world will discuss his book 'Down the Deerpark Road, Outside Lismore'. John will be joined by Rosamund Burton also from Lismore who will discuss her book 'Castle, Follies and Four-Leaf Clovers'.
A pre-Immrama Festival event has also been announced for May 19 international travel writer Michael Shapiro will host an evening at Lismore Courthouse Theatre discussing his book 'A Sense of Place' which sees Michael interview some of the most famous travel writers in the world including many whom he met at Immrama, including Jan Morris and Pico Iyer.
Full details of the schedule and early bird tickets for the Immrama Lismore Festival of Travel Writing 2013 are now available online at www.lismoreimmrama.com or by calling (058) 53803.
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Devonshire Day At Lismore Castle On St. Patrick's Day 2013
The annual 'Devonshire Day' at Lismore Castle has been announced to take place on St. Patrick's Day 2013, guests to Lismore castle on this day can take a unique opportunity to enjoy afternoon tea in the Pugin Room and experience a preview of Lismore Castle's Spring Gardens.
Devonshire Day is now an annual traditional at the Castle; guests are served Devonshire Cream Tea by the Duke of Devonshire's Butler in the Pugin room and are then offered a guided tour of the Castle gardens under the expert guidance of the Head Gardener an opportunity not normally available to visitors.
Commenting on the launch of Devonshire Day Mr Jan Rotte, Event Manager of Immrama said, "We are delighted to again be announcing a date for Devonshire Day at Lismore Castle this really is a wonderful opportunity to enjoy some Devonshire Cream Tea in themost picturesque surroundings. We understand that Devon have recently applied for Protected Geographical Status for Devonshire Cream Tea but we are sure it will always be available to be served at the Irish home of the Duke of Devonshire and for guests to the castle to enjoy each year at Devonshire Day.
After enjoying the tea visitors on the day can experience a guided tour of Lismore Castle Gardens which are set in seven acres within the 17th century outer defensive walls and have spectacular views of the castle and the surrounding countryside."
The Lower Garden was formerly known as the Pleasure Grounds and is spectacular in the Spring Time. A number of camellia, rhododendron's and some particularly magnificent magnolias can be found here. There has been extensive planting over the last number of years and the gardens are being constantly refined and improved. The walls surrounding the garden date from the early 18th century and havebeen planted with roses such as Francis E, Lester, Bobbie James, Rambling Rector to name but a few. The Lower Garden also boasts some spectacular sculptures by well-known artists Eilis O'Connell, Anthony Gormley and Marzia Colonna.
The Upper Garden is one of the few Jacobean gardens to survive in anything like its original form. The first Earl of Cork helped by his gardener John built a high surrounding wall and a raised terrace terminated at either end by turrets. The Central Walk,which is between the herbaceous borders, is backed by yew hedges and was laid in dramatic alignment on the Pain spire of the Anglican Cathedral. The hedges provide a suitable background for the herbaceous borders as one walks towards the top terrace. Located here are some artistic works by Bridget McCrum, Simon Thomas, Emily Young and Edwin Whitney Smith.
The Immrama Travel Writing Festival Committee is hosting this event and proceeds will help fund the 2013 festival programme. Tours take place at 11.30 a.m., 12.40 p.m., 1.50 p.m., 3.00 p.m. and 4.10 p.m. Entrance is by ticket only, Children under 10 go free but must be pre-registered with the ticket office.
Book Tickets
Tickets are available from the Immrama office and Lismore Heritage Centre and cost €20.00. For further enquiries and bookings contact 058-53803 or 058-54975 or see facebook.com/lismoreimmrama
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Lonely Planet co-founder to speak at 10th IMMRAMA Festival of Travel Writing
Tony Wheeler, co-founder almost 40 years ago of the Lonely Planet guidebooks that have become a ‘must-read’ for millions of travellers, is to visit Lismore, Co Waterford where he’ll be among the speakers at the 10th annual IMMRAMA Festival of Travel Writing which takes place from June 7-10.
With less than 50 days to go, this year’s festival programme was launched by Denis McCarthy, Waterford County Manager, at a reception in the picturesque heritage town last night.
Tony Wheeler originally founded Lonely Planet Publications with his wife Maureen in 1973 to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, a book recalling their six-month, low budget journey overland from London to Sydney. A second book, Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, followed in 1975.
From this modest beginning, Lonely Planet grew to be the largest independent guidebook publisher in the world with more than 500 titles in print and over 500 staff. While the couple sold a majority stake in the business in 2007 to BBC Worldwide, Tony Wheeler remains closely involved and continues to travel extensively. In 2009, he filmed programmes in Laos and Alaska for the Lonely Planet TV series ‘The Roads Less Travelled’ with National Geographic.
Joining the Lonely Planet co-founder in Lismore will be a range of travel writers including returning IMMRAMA guest speaker Jan Morris. The World War II veteran’s writing career began with the Times newspaper. Aged just 26, the then James Morris climbed three quarters of Mount Everest in 1953 to cover the Hillary and Tensing expedition. The resulting scoop won international renown and a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent with both the Times and Guardian newspapers followed.
Morris’ first book As I Saw the U.S.A. was published in the late 1950s after a year spent travelling in the United States. In 1960, The World of Venice captured a year in that city. Morris’ career as a full-time journalist ended in 1961 and more than two dozen highly-regarded books followed, including the Pax Britannica trilogy on the British Empire.
As efforts continue to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria, one of the few Irish people to have travelled extensively in the country– Mary Russell– is also among the speakers at IMMRAMA. The Dubliner’s My Home is Your Home tells of her experiences in Aleppo, Homs and Hama as well as remote areas of eastern Syria. An overnight desert taxi trip from Damascus to Baghdad also features in the book published late last year.
Among her previous books are The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt which is about women travellers and explorers through the ages; Journeys of a Lifetime which recalls some of the many places she has visited as well as her reasons for going there and Please don’t call it Soviet Georgia about the then Soviet Republic.
The current intense focus on China as a growing economic power is expected to generate additional interest in the IMMRAMA talk by British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron. The Mandarin-speaking writer’s first book Mirror to Damascus was published in 1967 with books on Lebanon and Jerusalem to follow over the subsequent two years.
In 1983, Thubron published Among the Russians describing a road trip through western Russia in the Brezhnev era. His 1987 Behind the Wall: A Journey through China won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Later books included The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom; The Lost Heart of Asia; In Siberia and To a Mountain in Tibet which was published in 2011 by Chatto & Windus and focuses on his pilgrimage to Mount Kailas.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature for over 40 years, Mr Thubron has also written novels set in enclosed locations including a prison and a psychiatric hospital. Since 2000, he has received the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Mungo Park Medal; the Royal Society for Asian Affairs’ Lawrence of Arabia Medal and the Society of Authors’ Travel Award.
Returning to Lismore for this year’s IMMRAMA is Belfast-based Paul Clements. The former BBC journalist is a contributing editor to the Insight and Fodor’s series of guidebooks. He has also written Irish Shores: Journey Round the Rim of Ireland (1993); The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip (2005) and Burren Country (2011) as well as Jan Morris– Around the World in Eighty Years (2006).
A Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford and a member of the National Union of Journalists; the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, his writing has also appeared in the Irish Times; Irish Examiner; Observer and Guardian newspapers as well as Radio Times magazine.
Mr Clements’ contributions at the festival will include chairing a June 8 panel discussion on the legacy and influence of Patrick Leigh Fermor on travel writing including an overview of his book In Tearing Haste, which features letters written between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire, a former resident of Lismore Castle, which is still owned and lived by the Devonshire family. As well as Tony Wheeler, Jan Morris and Colin Thubron, this session at Lismore’s Courthouse Theatre will feature Artemis Cooper.
Currently writing the biography of Mr Leigh Fermor– a war hero, adventurer and travel writer who died last year aged 96 – Artemis Cooper and her husband Antony Beevor wrote Paris After the Liberation. As well as writing Watching in the Dark which deals with her daughter’s critical illness, she has also edited two collections of letters – A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper and Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. She also co-wrote Words of Mercury with Patrick Leigh Fermor while previous biographies include Writing at the Kitchen Table about food writer Elizabeth David.
British writer and broadcaster Anthony Sattin will also speak at this year’s IMMRAMA. He has spent much of his adult life travelling in the Middle East and North Africa. His work has appeared in the Daily Telegraph; Guardian and Independent newspapers while he has also made several programmes for BBC Radio 4.
Sattin’s books include The Pharaoh’s Shadow (2001); The Gates of Africa (2004) and – most recently - A Winter on the Nile (2010) which tells of the mid-19th century journey in Egypt of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert.
Also travelling to Lismore to talk about her travels as part of the 10th IMMRAMA is Diana Gleadhill, a former Northern Ireland librarian who became a graphic artist. While living in Co Down, she has explored Kenya, South America, Central Asia and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Her first book Kamchatka, A Journal and Guide to Russia’s Land of Ice and Fire was published in 2007 while Our Fiery Hearts – Experiences in Central Asia will be published shortly.
A book edited by Paul Clements and featuring contributions from writers who have spoken at IMMRAMA since 2003 titled ‘The Blue Sky Bends Over All’ will be launched in Lismore during the festival.
This year’s IMMRAMA will open on the evening of June 7 with an event showcasing Waterford journalist and writer Ciaran Murphy’s What Happens on Tour... and NUIG Professor Eoin Bourke'’s Poor Green Erin, a compilation of translated 18th and 19th century travel writing about Ireland by German and Austrian authors. The festival will also feature a presentation by retired County Librarian Donal Brady on ‘Olivia Wilde and the Cockburns of Ardmore’ as well as the presentation of the Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award.
Full details of the schedule and bookings for the IMMRAMA Festival of Travel Writing 2012 are now available online at www.lismoreimmrama.com or by calling (058) 53803.
With less than 50 days to go, this year’s festival programme was launched by Denis McCarthy, Waterford County Manager, at a reception in the picturesque heritage town last night.
Tony Wheeler originally founded Lonely Planet Publications with his wife Maureen in 1973 to publish Across Asia on the Cheap, a book recalling their six-month, low budget journey overland from London to Sydney. A second book, Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, followed in 1975.
From this modest beginning, Lonely Planet grew to be the largest independent guidebook publisher in the world with more than 500 titles in print and over 500 staff. While the couple sold a majority stake in the business in 2007 to BBC Worldwide, Tony Wheeler remains closely involved and continues to travel extensively. In 2009, he filmed programmes in Laos and Alaska for the Lonely Planet TV series ‘The Roads Less Travelled’ with National Geographic.
Joining the Lonely Planet co-founder in Lismore will be a range of travel writers including returning IMMRAMA guest speaker Jan Morris. The World War II veteran’s writing career began with the Times newspaper. Aged just 26, the then James Morris climbed three quarters of Mount Everest in 1953 to cover the Hillary and Tensing expedition. The resulting scoop won international renown and a distinguished career as a foreign correspondent with both the Times and Guardian newspapers followed.
Morris’ first book As I Saw the U.S.A. was published in the late 1950s after a year spent travelling in the United States. In 1960, The World of Venice captured a year in that city. Morris’ career as a full-time journalist ended in 1961 and more than two dozen highly-regarded books followed, including the Pax Britannica trilogy on the British Empire.
As efforts continue to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis in Syria, one of the few Irish people to have travelled extensively in the country– Mary Russell– is also among the speakers at IMMRAMA. The Dubliner’s My Home is Your Home tells of her experiences in Aleppo, Homs and Hama as well as remote areas of eastern Syria. An overnight desert taxi trip from Damascus to Baghdad also features in the book published late last year.
Among her previous books are The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt which is about women travellers and explorers through the ages; Journeys of a Lifetime which recalls some of the many places she has visited as well as her reasons for going there and Please don’t call it Soviet Georgia about the then Soviet Republic.
The current intense focus on China as a growing economic power is expected to generate additional interest in the IMMRAMA talk by British travel writer and novelist Colin Thubron. The Mandarin-speaking writer’s first book Mirror to Damascus was published in 1967 with books on Lebanon and Jerusalem to follow over the subsequent two years.
In 1983, Thubron published Among the Russians describing a road trip through western Russia in the Brezhnev era. His 1987 Behind the Wall: A Journey through China won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award. Later books included The Silk Road: Beyond the Celestial Kingdom; The Lost Heart of Asia; In Siberia and To a Mountain in Tibet which was published in 2011 by Chatto & Windus and focuses on his pilgrimage to Mount Kailas.
A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature for over 40 years, Mr Thubron has also written novels set in enclosed locations including a prison and a psychiatric hospital. Since 2000, he has received the Royal Scottish Geographical Society’s Mungo Park Medal; the Royal Society for Asian Affairs’ Lawrence of Arabia Medal and the Society of Authors’ Travel Award.
Returning to Lismore for this year’s IMMRAMA is Belfast-based Paul Clements. The former BBC journalist is a contributing editor to the Insight and Fodor’s series of guidebooks. He has also written Irish Shores: Journey Round the Rim of Ireland (1993); The Height of Nonsense: The Ultimate Irish Road Trip (2005) and Burren Country (2011) as well as Jan Morris– Around the World in Eighty Years (2006).
A Fellow of Green-Templeton College, Oxford and a member of the National Union of Journalists; the Society of Authors and the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, his writing has also appeared in the Irish Times; Irish Examiner; Observer and Guardian newspapers as well as Radio Times magazine.
Mr Clements’ contributions at the festival will include chairing a June 8 panel discussion on the legacy and influence of Patrick Leigh Fermor on travel writing including an overview of his book In Tearing Haste, which features letters written between Patrick Leigh Fermor and Deborah Devonshire, a former resident of Lismore Castle, which is still owned and lived by the Devonshire family. As well as Tony Wheeler, Jan Morris and Colin Thubron, this session at Lismore’s Courthouse Theatre will feature Artemis Cooper.
Currently writing the biography of Mr Leigh Fermor– a war hero, adventurer and travel writer who died last year aged 96 – Artemis Cooper and her husband Antony Beevor wrote Paris After the Liberation. As well as writing Watching in the Dark which deals with her daughter’s critical illness, she has also edited two collections of letters – A Durable Fire: The Letters of Duff and Diana Cooper and Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch: The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper. She also co-wrote Words of Mercury with Patrick Leigh Fermor while previous biographies include Writing at the Kitchen Table about food writer Elizabeth David.
British writer and broadcaster Anthony Sattin will also speak at this year’s IMMRAMA. He has spent much of his adult life travelling in the Middle East and North Africa. His work has appeared in the Daily Telegraph; Guardian and Independent newspapers while he has also made several programmes for BBC Radio 4.
Sattin’s books include The Pharaoh’s Shadow (2001); The Gates of Africa (2004) and – most recently - A Winter on the Nile (2010) which tells of the mid-19th century journey in Egypt of Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert.
Also travelling to Lismore to talk about her travels as part of the 10th IMMRAMA is Diana Gleadhill, a former Northern Ireland librarian who became a graphic artist. While living in Co Down, she has explored Kenya, South America, Central Asia and Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula. Her first book Kamchatka, A Journal and Guide to Russia’s Land of Ice and Fire was published in 2007 while Our Fiery Hearts – Experiences in Central Asia will be published shortly.
A book edited by Paul Clements and featuring contributions from writers who have spoken at IMMRAMA since 2003 titled ‘The Blue Sky Bends Over All’ will be launched in Lismore during the festival.
This year’s IMMRAMA will open on the evening of June 7 with an event showcasing Waterford journalist and writer Ciaran Murphy’s What Happens on Tour... and NUIG Professor Eoin Bourke'’s Poor Green Erin, a compilation of translated 18th and 19th century travel writing about Ireland by German and Austrian authors. The festival will also feature a presentation by retired County Librarian Donal Brady on ‘Olivia Wilde and the Cockburns of Ardmore’ as well as the presentation of the Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award.
Full details of the schedule and bookings for the IMMRAMA Festival of Travel Writing 2012 are now available online at www.lismoreimmrama.com or by calling (058) 53803.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Guest Post - Devonshire Day 2012: A Wonderful Mother's Day in Lismore
Yesterday was Mother's Day and it coincided with the 9th Annual Devonshire Day held in Lismore Castle, which is the main fundraiser for the annual Immrama Festival of Travel writing. As this year will be the 10th Immrama Festival it's a very special anniversary - watch this space for updates and programme announcements after the launch on April 19th! I just want to share some of the photos of yesterday with you - and link you to previous posts on Devonshire Day which I've blogged about since 2009 - the first Devonshire Day after I started my personal blog in December 2008. Here's my 2010 and 2011 posts on Devonshire Day.We were blessed with perfect weather yesterday - and we always say St. Carthage our Patron Saint of Lismore is looking down on his own home town with favour. Well, he came from Co. Offaly but we claim him as our own as his name is synonymous with Lismore, whichever one you want - as the Australian Lismore has a St. Carthage's Cathedral also and is our Twin Town, and we have two St. Carthage's - the Church of
Ireland Cathedral and the Catholic Church.The day is a series of five guided walks through the spring gardens of Lismore Castle with the Head Gardener Chris Tull at the helm, and his love and enthusiasm for the gardens shines through all the way - he never flags even after six hours or more, he displays the same humour and passion with the final group as with the first. I should know, as I accompany each group, tasteful in my garish yellow Hi-Viz jacket and carrying my First-Aid kit, just in case anyone decides to take a tumble or keel over - all in the name of "elf'n'safety"! Luckily no-one has need
ed my services thus far, although a few years ago in particularly vile weather some of the punters nearly came a cropper on the slippery slopes of the lower garden where the mud had churned up into a veritable mire.The walks are preceded by the piece de resistance - the Devonshire Cream Tea served by the Butlers of the Duke of Devonshire in the Pugin Room - the Ballroom and former Chapel designed by Pugin, the famous designer of Westminster Houses Of Parliament in London. The tea is served on monogrammed china and with full silver service, and is very posh. As two of our sons worked there for years as butlers when they were students we tend to take it for granted, but it is very other-worldly for the visitors. A taste of how the other half (or more like the 1%) live, if you will. And that's a topic for debate another day!
But I digress - ba
ck to the tea. The punters are treated to a series of talks during their tea - on the history of the Castle, Lismore, the Pugin connection and the Pugin Room in particular, and then Chris talks about the gardens and during the walkabout he is a mine of information on Joseph Paxton who built the Glasshouses and designed the gardens initially, and then the contemporary influences of the Cavendish family who inaugurated a Sculpture Garden throughout the gardens, with many contemporary artists having permanent exhibits. Eilis O'Connell has a number of pieces, and Antony Gormley is probably the best known with his Man out of Water piece - a mould of his own body on a cold day as Chris tells it! I leave you to judge. Gormley's signature piece is the Angel of the North in Newcastle in England, and his body figures are dotting the English coastline at Crosby near Liverpool.
The Castle Arts Gallery will be open throughout the summer along with the gardens and the ticket entry includes both. Each year there's a different exhibition usually with guest curators, and it is always avant garde and of international renown but not to everyone's taste. So if you're expecting art a-la the National Galleries, you might be disappointed! This is also the first year there was no Sotheby's Irish Sale Preview in Lismore Castle Arts, which is missed by me as I loved it. But that's the downside of the recession, and we have to put up with it. I'm sure it cost someone a fortune to tour with those artworks worth millions.
I met a lady who was here last year and she had the most amazing Aran outfit, which she designed and knitted herself - I was gobsmacked by her skill and tenacity - she had a beret, mittens, cowl, bag and calf-length coat - all in fabulous intricate Aran patterns. You can see the photo here as I took some to send her, and I hope she likes them as much as I did seeing them and meeting her. She's called Agnes and she comes from Waterford.
We see a lot of the same faces year after year as people come from all over Ireland to enjoy this special Spring Preview of the gardens and the unique opportunity to be served tea by the Duke's Butlers! So I hope you enjoy the photos and the post which I'll also post on my personal blog at Dispatches from the Deise. It's been great being a Guest Blogger on the Lismore Immrama Blog - thanks for asking me!
PS - If you want to see the full gallery of photos of Devonshire Day then visit the Lismore Immrama Facebook Page and Like it! Here's the link.
PS - If you want to see the full gallery of photos of Devonshire Day then visit the Lismore Immrama Facebook Page and Like it! Here's the link.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Devonshire Day Sunday 18th March 2012
A fundraising event for the Lismore Immrama - Festival Of Travel Writing, Devonshire Day includes a unique preview of the gardens at Lismore Castle, Devonshire Cream Tea in the castle's Pugin Room and a visit to Lismore Heritage Centre .
Call Lismore Heritage Centre on 058-54975 or contact Jan 058-53365/058-53803 for further details.
With kind permission by Lord & Lady Burlington
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Immrama Fundraising event January 20, 2012
Lismore Festival of Travel Writing
TABLE QUIZ
Friday January 20th
Ballyrafter House Hotel
At 8.30 p.m.
€40.00 per table,
All Welcome
Contact 058 53365
TABLE QUIZ
Friday January 20th
Ballyrafter House Hotel
At 8.30 p.m.
€40.00 per table,
All Welcome
Contact 058 53365
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