Celebrity gardener, Diarmuid Gavin, has revealed his latest project is at the ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ house in Glenties!
For the past couple of months, he has been taking regular trips to the ‘delightful town’, which is the location of Brian Friel’s fictional ‘Ballybeg’. It is also where ‘The Laurels’ stands, the cottage that inspired Friel’s ‘Dancing at Lughnasa’ and the homeplace of his mother. A local community group, along with Donegal County Council, has plans to restore the house and open it to the public.
“It’s not a place I’d visited previously, being slightly off the beaten track, but on these occasions, I’ve had a wonderful reason,” he reveals in today’s Irish Independent.
“I’ve been commissioned to design a garden for a property called The Laurels, situated just outside the town. Through the Brian Friel Trust and Donegal County Council, it will become part of a collection of buildings in the town that celebrate his work. My job is to reimagine the garden and bring an essence of some of the magic of his writing to that design,” he added.
Read the full report on www.independent.ie
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