The Robinson Garden at Earlscliffe, Baily, Co. Dublin, Ireland
The Robinson Garden at Earlscliffe, Baily, Co. Dublin, Ireland
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NewsWilde and Mahaffy in Greece24th April 2008 Paddy Sammon is giving a lecture on Oscar Wilde and John Pentland Mahaffy (a former resident of Earlscliffe) and their visit and links with Greece to the Rathmines, Rathgar and Ranelagh Historical Society at the Rathmines Town Hall at 8pm on the 24th April 2008. All are welcome. You can read about this subject in a summary of a paper he read to the Third Conference fo the European Association for Modern Greek Studies in Bucharest in 2006: www.eens-congress.eu/?main__page=1&main__lang=de&eensCongress_cmd=showPaper&eensCongress_id=265 A shorter version will be published in Dublin in 2008 (May?) as part of a book entitled "The Lure of Greece" ed. JV Luce
Greening the Urban Jungle, Plants, Soils, Buildings and Climate Change23rd October 2007
"The Gardens at Earlscliffe, Howth"25th April 2007
The powerpoint slides from the lecture, given at Wesley House, Leeson Park, Dublin, will be uploaded into the Earlscliffe website soon.
Horticulture on Mars!5th October 2006
In this 2006 memorial lecture Dr Wheeler talked about food-producing plants that will become a regular feature of long-distance space travel. He discussed Nasa's research into ways to produce fresh vegetables and fruits in space to supplement space travellers' diets. He also explained the current studies into how to grow potatoes, wheat, carrots and other vegetables once space travellers set up bases on the moon and Mars.
Wollemi Pine comes to Ireland10th September 2005 An Taoiseach Mr Bertie Ahern T.D. today accepted the first Wollemi Pine in Ireland from the Australian Ambassador to Ireland, His Excellency Dr. John Herron at a planting ceremony at the National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin. The ceremony was hosted by Dr Peter Wyse Jackson, Director of the National Botanic Gardens. The Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis) is one of the world's oldest and rarest trees. It was discovered in 1994 200km west of Sydney in a rainforest gorge within the 500,000 hectare Wollemi National Park in the Blue Mountains. The pine belongs to the 200 million year old Araucariaceae family and there are less than 100 of the mature trees left in the wild. It is hoped that the survival of the plant can be secured by the selling and growing of the plant worldwide. Earlscliffe Gardens have registered an interest in adding a Wollemi Pine to the collection of rare plants at Earlscliffe.
For more information see www.wollemipine.com See also the article written by David Robinson for the Irish Garden in 1998, "The Wollemi Pine - one of the great survivors" "The discovery of the Wollemi Pine is the equivalent of finding a small dinosaur still alive on earth. - Professor Carrick Chambers, Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney 1994" This page was last updated on 12-Apr-2008 .
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David Robinson
Memorial Lecture given by Dusty Gedge of Livingroofs will take place at the
Astra Hall UCD. The event is orgnised by Bord Bia and the UCD School of Biology
and Environemntal Science.
Karen Foley
delivered an illustrated talk for the Royal Horticultural Society of Ireland on
the Gardens at Earlscliffe. 
