Iveagh Gardens
Secluded nineteenth-century garden with a rose maze, cascade and sunken archery lawn behind city buildings.
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This guide to Iveagh Gardens in Dublin starts with something buried beneath the sunken lawn since a 1922 renovation, and traces how the Guinness family's private nineteenth-century retreat ended up walled off behind the city's buildings for decades. It follows the garden through Ireland's early independence years, when Eamon de Valera pressed Lord Iveagh, the Guinness heir who still owned the grounds, to hand them over to the public. Listen for the maze modeled on Hampton Court and the cascade built from stone gathered across Ireland's counties as you walk.
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