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  • Themed Tour: Blight & Bounty

    Themed Tour: Blight & Bounty

    OPW National Botanic Gardens of Ireland National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Ireland

    Join us for a tour of The National Botanic Gardens at Glasnevin during the Famine years, taking in exotic imports, orchid innovations, symphonies in iron and glass - and the discovery of potato blight. €5 per person. Booking essential.

    €5

  • Dublin Festival of History: Blight and Bounty in the Botanic Gardens

    Join us for a special talk for the Dublin Festival of History. On 20th August 1845, as the magnificent Curvilinear Range of glasshouses began to take shape in the National Botanic Gardens, curator David Moore spotted something sinister among the potatoes of the vegetable plot: the first instance in Ireland of the blight that would […]