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07/01/2018

Lovely piece on Shirley Lanigan book The Open Gardens of Ireland in Gloss magazine of Irish Times Great Garden Lanigan

14/12/2017

Front and centre Hodges Figgis. Grab a copy of 'The Open Gardens of Ireland' while stocks last! It's the perfect gift of adventurers, gardeners and even photographers to help guide them around our wonderful botanical Emerald Isle!

26/11/2017

Order your copy of The Open Gardens of Ireland here.
Tantalising is the word that Gerry Daly used to describe Shirley
Lanigan's new book, Open Gardens of Ireland, when he recently launched it in Dublin's Hodges Figgis bookshop.
Gerry, the godfather of Irish gardening, said it was amazing that
Shirley had visited the 427 gardens over two years which are included in the 400 page book. he said that in every page he could hear Shirley's voice.
"And as I read piece after piece, it was as if there was a phantom gardener with her as she described what was in front of her and it is her descriptive powers, always with the reader in mind, that stand out; it's as if she had a garden lover by her side.
He said it was a hugely important book, a snapshot of the gardens in time. He added that in years to come, no matter what,the garden owners could look at what they achieved through this book.
He added that it would be used for generations to come by gardeners and that it would also help facilitate the growing number of gardening tourists, searching for places to visit in Ireland.
To write her new book she spent two years starting in the spring of 2015, criss-crossing the island, visiting every garden she could find that opens its doors to the public. These include postage stamp town gardens and huge historic demesnes, roof gardens and island gardens.
As she travelled she was chased by swans and swarms of bees. She learned how to mind orphaned baby birds barn owls and terrapins. She met herds of swimming cattle and work parties of pigs, people building follies and repairing miniature castles. She spent long hours entertaining Dutch hitchhikers and got marooned and surrounded by Loyalist parades and herded by sheep dogs around the roads of Cork.
She found 427 gardens and met 427 owners and gardeners. As she did with her last two books, she has promised never to do it again.
She lives in Kilkenny, is married to a committed non-gardener but thinks that one of their two children might possibly have been hit with the bug.

18/11/2017

18/11/2017

Thank you so much to Peter Dowdall of The Irish Examiner and Garden.ie & The Irish Garden magazine and Irish Country Gardens for fab review of The Open Gardens of Ireland by Shirley Lanigan. Hard work does pay off.

16/11/2017

Delighted to see ‘The Open Gardens Of Ireland’ is one of the Books of the Year for Argosy, the leading Irish book wholesaler.

13/11/2017

Kilkenny must see the light and plant 'exceptional trees', says Shirley Lanigan John Keane Michael Lanigan Michael W. Lanigan

Author and gardening expert addresses KKB awards night and wants to see trees 'with personality'

07/11/2017

Delighted to be back in the wonderful Hodges and Figgis window with Hubert Butler. We are certainly not worthy!!

31/10/2017

Just incase you missed Shirely in action last night on Nationwide. You can now catch it on the RTE Player.

Nationwide visit a Wicklow Garden planted and maintained by a former Nun who has gifted the garden to the State.

30/10/2017

The Open Gardens of Ireland’ is due to feature on Nationwide this evening at 7pm.
The team visited a small number of Wicklow’s gardens included in the book a few weeks ago - before Hurricane Ophelia blew everything about.
So join Helen McInerney and Shirley as they walk about in:
Jimi Blake’s Hunting Brook,
TJ Maher’s Patthana,
Alexander Mattei’s Wren’s Wood and
June Blake’s garden.

18/09/2017

A big thank you to Ali Rochford and the Sunday Business Post for their article on 'The Open Gardens of Ireland'.

28/08/2017

Very grateful to 'The Irish Garden' magazine for naming 'The Open Gardens Of Ireland' book of the month in their September issue. 🎉

07/08/2017

We are so pleased to have Shirley feature in this weeks Farmers Journal taking about her book 'The Open Gardens of Ireland'. Thanks to the wonderful Editor Mairead Lavery!

22/07/2017

Thank you to Paddy Tobin of the Irish Garden Plant Society for the wonderful review of 'The Open Gardens of Ireland'.

Shirley Lanigan must be the greatest garden visitor in Ireland and she has written a book which would entice the reader to emulate her and visit the wonderful and beautiful gardens we have in this …

02/07/2017

Be sure to catch this great piece by Jane Powers in The Sunday Times today about Shirley's book The Open Gardens of Ireland!

13/06/2017

Hodges Figgis

12/06/2017

A big thank you to the fabulous Liz in Stonehouse Books Kilkenny. Get your hands on a copy of The Open Gardens of Ireland there

12/06/2017

A big thank you to Liz at Stonehouse Books Kilkenny. Get your hands on the Open Gardens of Ireland there

09/06/2017

Fantastic evening

09/06/2017

Tantalising is the word that Gerry Daly used to describe Shirley Lanigan's new book, Open Gardens of Ireland, when he launched it in
Dublin's Hodges Figgis bookshop last night.
Gerry, the godfather of Irish gardening, said it was amazing that Shirley had visited the 427 gardens over two years which are included
in the 400 page book. He said that in every page he could hearShirley's voice.
"And as I read piece after piece, it was as if there was a phantom gardener with her as she described what was in front of her and it is
her descriptive powers, always with the reader in mind, that stand out; it's as if she had a garden lover by her side.

He said it was a hugely important book, a snapshot of the gardens in time. He added that in years to come, no matter what, the garden owners could look at what they achieved through this book.
He added that it would be used for generations to come by gardeners
and that it would also help facilitate the growing number of gardening
tourists, searching for places to visit in Ireland.

To write her new book she spent two years starting in the spring of 2015, criss-crossing the island, visiting every garden she could find
that opens its doors to the public. These include postage stamp town gardens and huge historic demesnes, roof gardens and island gardens.
As she travelled she was chased by swans and swarms of bees. She learned how to mind orphaned baby birds barn owls and terrapins. She met herds of swimming cattle and work parties of pigs, people building
follies and repairing miniature castles. She spent long hours entertaining Dutch hitchhikers and got marooned and surrounded by Loyalist parades and herded by sheep dogs around the roads of Cork.

She found 427 gardens and met 427 owners and gardeners. Shirley has three other books under her belt: ‘The O’Brien Guide to
Irish Gardens’ (Pub. O’Brien Press. 2001); ‘The 100 Best Irish Gardens’ (Pub. Liberties Press. 2010) and The Pocket Guide to the 100
Best Irish Gardens’ (Pub. Liberties Press 2012)

The book is published by Butter Slip Press, a new, author friendly and writer run publishing house owned by Shirley Lanigan and her
husband's brother-in-law, John Keane.
The book is available in allgood bookshops or direct from 0863895638 or
email [email protected] for more details

08/06/2017

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08/06/2017

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08/06/2017

An exciting new book, focussing on the open gardens of Ireland is being launched this week by a Kilkenny woman. Shirley Lanigan who is also the Kilkenny People's gardening columnist visited every county in Ireland as part of her research for the ‘The Open Gardens of Ireland.’ After two y...

08/06/2017

The Butter Slip Press would be delighted to see you at the launch of our exciting new book "The Open Gardens of Ireland By Shirley Lanigan" The most comprehensive guide ever to the gardens of Ireland The launch will take place in Hodges Figgis Book Store 56 – 58 Dawson Street, Dublin 2 At 6.30pm
The book will be kindly launched by Gerry Daly. Looking forward to seeing you all there