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- Category: Blog
- On this day, April 4th, 1886
- On this day, April 1st, 1823
- On this day, March 26, 1793
- On this day, March 21st, 1845
- On this day, March 19th, 1915
- On this day, March 14th 1912
- Important information regarding Covid-19 (Coronavirus)
- On this day, March 7th, 1962
- Tourism Day at Fota House – Friday 17th April
- Fota Portraits in Black and White
- Calling Green Fingers for the Fota House Plant & Garden Fair
- VISIT DOROTHY’S EASTER TRAIL!
- Caring for Collections – Conservation in action
- Remembering John Charles Beswick
- How to make wildflower seed bombs.
- Azara Microphylla ‘Variegata’
- Lady Barrymore’s other daughter
- NATURE IS THE BEST DESIGNER OF ALL
- A FAIR DAY FOR A PLANT FAIR
- ANGELS IN THE ORANGERY
- FLUTTERING AROUND… SALLY’S CHOICE
- A PROFUSION OF FUCHSIA AT VICTORIAN WORKING GARDEN
- WHO SAID WHAT ABOUT GARDENING AND WROTE IT DOWN
- What is an Arboretum?
- The Fernery at Fota
- Category: Collections
- Charles Beswick’s School Atlas
- Bust of a Lady with Ringlets
- David Barry, First Earl of Barrymore (1604-1642)
- Thomas Roberts (1748-1777), ‘A Landstorm’
- Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808), Portrait of Mrs Hartley (c.1773)
- George Elgar Hicks (1824-1914), Portrait of Geraldine Smith-Barry, 1885
- The Irish Heritage Trust Collection of Historic Wallpaper
- Olive’s Pram from Strokestown Park
- Category: Architecture
- Category: Garden
- Category: House
- Category: On Loan
- Category: Paintings
- Category: Wallpaper
- Category: Events
- Category: Featured
- Category: Food
- Category: Gardening
- Sempervivum arachnoideum – Catherine’s choice
- Flower tower – Echium pininana
- A Small Blue Goddess
- Fota Frameyard Field Trip
- New kids on the (Frameyard) block
- What time is it in Fota? It’s rhododendron time!
- What’s flowering in the Fota Frameyard?
- We’re open! Come and visit us in the Fota Frameyard.
- W is for Wallflower
- And if there’s ONE tree you must see at Fota…
- A Tale of 2 Trees or a Tree of 2 Halves?
- Our own BFGs in Fota!
- Chocolate or Vanilla?
- From China to Fota – The Handkerchief Tree
- Can you throw your hat through the tree? Pruning in Fota orchard…
- Between the car park and the Frameyard…
- A gardener’s work is never done
- A Woman’s Place is in the Garden – Meet Gertrude Jekyll
- Building the walls
- The art of the garden
- Behind the scenes at Fota – the Volunteers
- October Glory – Acer rubrum
- Category: General Information
- The Fota House Game Larder
- FOTA HOUSE, ARBORETUM & GARDENS WELCOMES FIRST VOLUNTEER TOURIST
- The Last Letter
- Mrs Rundell’s Really Rich Custard
- Preparing for Christmas, Dressings Aside …
- The unbelievable tale of Lady Barrymore ‘The Boxing Baroness’ – boxing and boozing in Regency London
- The Columbine, Cowes and The Water Club of the Harbour of Cork … More Racing Around in Yachts!
- Racing around in yachts – sailing for pleasure with the Smith-Barrys in honour of Annalise
- Fota and the Rising, April 24 1916
- Tally ho! A Jolly Good Show! … Foxhunting and Ascendancy in Co. Cork
- Sprinkles and your letters to Santa!
- Sprinkles the Elf is Decorating Fota House for Christmas!
- Christmas with the Bells
- Sprinkles is getting ready for the Magic of Santa at Fota House!
- The seasons at Fota: winter slowly arrives
- Robert Raymond Smith Barry, Pioneer Pilot
- Category: Guest Blogs
- Category: Heritage
- Category: Local (gardening) Heroes
- Category: Nature
- Category: Other Gardens
- Category: Stories
- Category: Trees
- Category: Volunteer's plant choice
- Category: Children
- Category: Culture
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- Category: Music