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On Wednesday the 11th of December from 7:30 to 9:00pm, Dr Christy Boylan will give an online presentation of his book ‘The Parks and Gardens of Dublin’.

His book gives an account of the history and development of over 150 parks and gardens in Dublin. During the online talk Dr Boylan will discuss the rich artistic heritage of the gardens and their global plant collections.

Dr Boylan is a native of Ballyjamesduff, Co. Cavan, and studied horticulture at the National Botanic Gardens, and University College Dublin. Further studies included Landscape Architecture at Michigan State University, USA, and an MBA from Dublin City University in 2003.

He was a landscape architect with Dublin Corporation Parks Department until 1993 and head of the Parks and Landscape Services Department in South Dublin County Council until 2007. He is a lecturer at Technological University Dublin, an adjudicator for the National Tidy Towns Competition and chair of the International jury for Entente Florale Europe.

He has written numerous publications and presented papers at national and international conferences. A founding member and first President of the Tree Council of Ireland and a Fellow and former President of the Irish Landscape Institute. He was a board member of World Urban Parks until 2018. In May 2015, Christy was the inaugural winner of the World Urban Parks Distinguished Individual Award.

This talk is free and open to all IGPS members. The link for the talk will be sent to all members via email.

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