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The Irish Garden: A Cultural History
Contributor(s): Dale, Peter (Author), Lalor, Brian (Author)

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ISBN: 0750988096     ISBN-13: 9780750988094
Publisher: Thp Ireland
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Binding Type: Hardcover
Published: October 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Gardening
LCCN: 2018493304
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" L (1.72 lbs) 384 pages
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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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 favor of a quiet and domesticated beauty, but that is not peculiar to Ireland either. As Peter Dale demonstrates in this ground-breaking book, 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. Though not uncritical of some aspects, The Irish Garden is as 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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