Apr 4, 2022
One of the most celebrated families of the Kildare hunting scene during the middle decades of the 20th century, the Kennedys were direct descendants of Sir John Kennedy, the Father of the Kildare Hunt. Indeed, for much of the 20th century, the area around Straffan was...
Mar 2, 2022
The building of Adare Manor by the 2nd Earl of Dunraven and his wife, Lady Caroline, was one of the biggest projects of its kind ever undertaken in Ireland. Completed over 30 years, it was built in an architectural style that was inspired by the Gothic Revival and...
Mar 2, 2022
Return to Contents Extracted from ‘Adare Manor: The Renaissance of an Irish Country House’ by Turtle Bunbury. ***** ‘O, sweet Adare! O, lovely vale, O, soft retreat of sylvan splendour. Nor summer sun, nor morning gale. E’er hailed a scene more softly tender.’...
Mar 2, 2022
Return to Contents of Adare Manor: The Renaissance of an Irish Country House ‘We are what we repeatedly do,’ observed the American philosopher Will Durant in 1926. ‘Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.’ There has always been something excellent and...
Mar 2, 2022
ADARE MANOR in County Limerick, Ireland, has always been remarkable. Its story began eight centuries ago when the original manor was granted to a Norman knight while a substantial monastic community was established on the nearby riverbanks. From the seventeenth...
