Music in Monkstown Festival 2015

A WEEKEND OF MUSIC AND CELEBRATION

The second "Music in Monkstown" festival will present some of Ireland's leading musicians in a weekend of classical music and celebration from 18-20 September 2015.  Concerts will take place in the wonderful setting of Church of Ireland Parish Church, Monkstown, Co Dublin. 

Monkstown Parish Church

Music in Monkstown also announced that there will be two evenings of post concert Jazz @10pm @FXB's bar and restaurant on the Saturday and Sunday nights, thanks to the generous support of Newpark Music Centre.

Music in Monkstown is the brain-child of the RTE National Symphony Orchestra's principal clarinetist and Monkstown resident John Finucane, supported by other enthusiastic local music lovers. After an incredibly successful inaugural festival in 2014, MIM is back with another three days of fantastic classical music programming.

All five concerts will be held in Monkstown Parish Church.  The festival is supported by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

Music in Monkstown Programme.

Monkstown has been home to Hofler Architects since 1992 and is one of the loveliest remaining villages in the Dublin area, with many amenities to hand. It has plenty of appealing shops, good places to eat and drink and the ambiance is one of relaxed elegance. Already a popular venue for classical music concerts, we are delighted to bring Monkstown its very own music festival.

MONKSTOWN PARISH CHURCH

The venue for all our Music in Monkstown concerts, Monkstown Parish Church was redesigned by the prolific 19th century church architect John Semple, who also created the Mansion House's Round Room in Dublin city centre. The church was a particular favourite of Sir John Betjeman, the British Poet Laureate and church historian who served as Press Attache with the Britisch Embassy in Dublin in the early 1940s. For him Monkstown Parish Chruch, which he visited frequently when staying with Gate Theatre founder Lady Wicklow who lived nearby, was on of the best examples of Semple's work around the city's suburbs.

•  Music in Monkstown Website.
• Click here for the full programme.
• Music in Monkstown Facebook Page.
• The history of Monkstown Church. 

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Ireland's Largest Strawbale Building!

The Lime House guesthouse featured on RTE Nationwide.

Ireland's largest strawbale building designed by Paul Mulhern of SPACIOUS Architects is nearing completion at the Rock Farm, Slane Castle, Co. Meath.  The project was featured on tonight's Nationwide program on RTE (12 mins in). Finishing touches are being put to the eco guesthouse in preparation for the weekend's concert.  The program is available to view on RTE's Player for the next 20 days.

Rock Farm site plan at Slane showing all six straw bale buildings.

The Lime House is the Rock Farm Slane’s 2-storey, 6 bedroom eco guesthouse, which has been built out of straw bales and clay plaster with lime on the outside to provide healthy, environmentally-sound eco-tourism accommodation in the Boyne Valley. This guesthouse has been designed to the highest environmental construction standards, and in sympathy with the woodland, organic farmland and architecturally-protected parkland of Slane Castle just over the river from the development.  The Lime House is named after the adjacent stone ruins of a lime kiln which now forms a centre-piece of the new courtyard space to the front.

The Lime House and five other straw bale buildings including a rental cottage, worker's cottage, farm office and a family house for the owners were all designed by architect, Paul Mulhern.  The guesthouse, farm office and yurt camping are all now complete.

The rear of the Lime House, facing the farm.

Elevation drawing.

Side Elevation.

Perspective drawing of the Lime Home.

Strawbale, lime plaster, recycled timber materials.

• The Rock Farm, Eco tourism farm, Slane.
• Straw bale building.
• SPACIOUS Architects.  01-5585205

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[Designed while Paul was a partner in his previous practice].

Monkstown: Free Public Lecture

Knox Hall, Monkstown Road, Monkstown, Co. Dublin.  Tuesday 9th June 2015 at 7.30pm.

The lecture will be given by Seamus Cannon and Carole Cullen, authors of the recent history "Monkstown, A Victorian Village".  Dr. Seamus Cannon is a an educationalist with a love of local history, lecturer and a former director of the Blackrock Education Centreand is editor of "The Book of Dun Laoghaire" and "The book of Bray".  He is a resident of Monkstown.

Carole Cullen is a local artist and photographer who collaborated with Fr. Quilter in his research of Monkstown.  She teaches both art and photography and is also a Monkstown resident.

"Monkstown, A Victorian Village" is an affectionate and evocative celebration of the social and architectural heritage of Monkstown.

All are welcome. Contact Monkstownmc3@gmail.com or 01-2802130 for further information.

Hofler Architects, Monkstown.