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Kylemore Abbey, Co Galway

This episode follows the intricate and painstaking restoration of previously unseen rooms at the majestic Victorian Palace and Kylemore Abbey in Connemara which were once home to the kitchens and day rooms of the Benedictine Community and their international girl’s boarding school. Today they are the focus and introduction to a stunning new €3m Digital Exhibition “From Generation to Generation – the Story of Kylemore Abbey” over the past one hundred years. Featuring Historic Interiors Consultant, Joanne Smyth and Abbey and Gothic Church Manager at Kylemore Abbey, Eithne O Halloran who’s also a past pupil of the Benedictine School in Connemara, the producers follow their tireless efforts to create this stunning new extension to an already impressive jewel in the Connemara landscape. Attention detail in the brief all of which is based on passion and personal experience of Kylemore Abbey by both ladies as they set about generating and amplifying a stunning new entrance to Kylemore Abbey and a series of elegant exhibition rooms resplendent of the Victorian home of the former House of Commons, MP and English industrialist business man’s Mitchel Henry’s lifestyle in Connemara over 100 years ago. Joanne and Eithne’s ambition is to recreate a stunning new series of rooms which will showcase the splendour and grandeur of the Abbey while wowing and enthralling Kylemore Abbey’s half million visitors annually. All of which must be achieved within a tight. The cameras and Moondance Production team follow Joanne and Eithne as they define the brief for delicate yet large scale restoration project. The restoration journey takes them to London in search of artefacts, furniture, soft furnishings and wallpapers from Mitchel’s Henry’s Victorian era. Meeting with antique dealers, researching artworks, replicas of the original peacock design wall papers which feature in prize artefacts and artworks already in Kylemore’s possession is first on the agenda. High energy meetings in

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  • Originally Aired January 2, 2020
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Network RTÉ One
  • Created February 9, 2020 by
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  • Modified February 21, 2024 by
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