When: May 20, 2026, 10:00 Dublin
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At this online talk Dr Christy Boylan, a founding member and first President of the Tree Council of Ireland will tell the story of its early years.
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. and is a Fellow and former President of the Irish Landscape Institute. In May 2015, Christy was the inaugural winner of the World Urban Parks Distinguished Individual Award. Christy was a board member of World Urban Parks until 2018.
Christy is the author of The Parks and Gardens of Dublin. This richly illustrated book offers the history and development of over 150 parks and gardens in Dublin, from the grand scale of the Phoenix Park to intimate pocket-parks, reflecting the city’s maritime climate and its legacy of designed landscapes and public green space. which gives an account of the history and development of over 150 parks and gardens in Dublin. He will discuss the importance of the gardens which are rich in biodiversity, in artistic heritage as well as plant collections from all around the World. You can purchase a copy at this link; The Parks and Gardens of Dublin“
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