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                                               Intro Mary Garden

Flowers of Our Lady and Mary Gardens in
Ireland
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     - Nature and Gardening in Celtic Christian Tradition

     - Muire and Mary Flowers Growing Wild in Ireland

     - Present-Day Mary Gardens

          - 1953 Beginnings: "Irish Ecclesastical Record" Article

          - 1972 Irish Initiatives

          - 1983 Knock Shrine Mary Garden
                 - The Plants & Bed Design
                 - Garden Symbolism
                 - Garden Way of the Rosary
                 - Wild Mary Flowers from the Irish Counties

          - 1990 Planting of the Entire Knock Shrine Site

          - 1992 Artane Mary Garden of Remembrance

          - Irish Mary's Gardens Address

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A personal note:

     The above painting of Glenveagh, Co. Donegal, reproduced,
thanks to the Irish Postal Service, from the stationery of a recent
letter from our esteemed Irish Mary's Gardens Associate, Bro. Sean
MacNamara, C.S.C., brought instant recognition and warm memories.

     In the summer of 1938 a schoolmate and I spent several weeks at
the Glen and Lough, and in our hiking probably passed through the
very site of the painting - although it was past the time of
foxglove blooms.  I also recall that on our arrival at the entrance
to the Glen, near the site, our car had to stop due to deer
blocking the road.

     Later, on a bicycle trip to Galway, we passed by the Shrine
of Our Lady at Knock, now so meaningful for all of us at Mary's
Gardens.

JSSJ