HERITAGE WEEK 
AT MONKSGRANGE 

The successful event which took place on 24th August 2024

The Edward Richards-Orpen Memorial Trust Annual Lecture at Monksgrange, Rathnure.

 

Under the influence: contextualising Lutyens/Jekyll design principles in the garden at Monksgrange.

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David Averill, FRIAI,  architect and member of the UK Lutyens Trust, will discuss the influence of Lutyens’ worldwide garden design work on Edward Richards-Orpen’s own redesign of the garden at Monksgrange in the 1900s.

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Goddard Orpen’s photography at Farmleigh: The public reaction.

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Curated by Jeremy Hill, this exhibition has caught the eyes of historians of photography and academic commentators. Jeremy Hill, a great-grandson of Orpen, will comment on the viewer  reaction and introduce his recent fully illustrated publication The Vision of a 19th century lensman: Goddard Orpen, 1852-1932. 

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