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Landscape architect Peter Donegan and his design for the Museum of the Great War in Péronne, northern France

This afternoon

In celebration of the 30th anniversary of The Historial de la Grande Guerre (Museum of the Great War), Europe’s largest war museum embedded within the 13th Century Chateau de Peronne in the Somme region of northern France, Irish Landscape Architect Peter Donegan has been commissioned to design a new garden for the castle.

This is Peter’s second time to design at the location. Peter’s peace garden, Jardin Eutychia (after the Greek Goddess of Happiness) was realised in the Chateau’s dried up moat in 2018.

On this occasion the new landscape will be realised within the medieval building’s internal courtyard and officially inaugurated on June 25.

Peter, who is is the series garden designer for DIY SOS The Big Build for RTÉ, says:

“it is harrowing of the past when I consider the ultimate catalyst behind this garden, and my return to Péronne. On the other hand, how humbling is it to be invited again and relocate to design in a place I love so dearly

“At first glance the garden is a visitors most beautiful welcome, but it contains also a herbarium of world war medicinal plants, virtual reality story telling and a full size Panzer tank, within a town’s castle that has fallen three times.“

Previously: Some Corner Of A Foreign Field


A dizzying BAFTA-nominated short by former printmaker Elizabeth Hobbs about Austrian painter Oskar Kokoschka – wounded physically in the First World War and emotionally in the course of a stormy love affair preceding it.

Hobbs imagines Kokoska’s feverish flashbacks using ink applied to A5 paper, animated while still wet.

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Last Sunday.

Péronne, France.

The unveiling of the Irish WW1 Centenary Peace Garden, located in the dried up moat of Chateau de Péronne near the Somme battlefields.

The garden, by Irish landscape designer Peter Donegan (above second right), was  officially inaugurated by Patricia O’Brien, Ambassadeur d’Irlande en France (above in light blue coat).

Ms O’Brien was joined by Xavier Bertrand (Président de la Région Hauts-de-France), Thérèse Dheygers (Maire de Péronne) and Hervé François (Directeur de l’Historial de la Grande Guerre) and members of the Irish in France Association.

Peter Donegan’s garden was selected by a French jury to represent Ireland and he is one of 14 international designers chosen to design nine memorial gardens around the Hauts-de-France region.

Peter Donegan

Previously:  How Does His Garden Glow?

This afternoon.

Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2

Th newly installed ‘Hauntings Soldier’ sculpture commemorating the centenary of the ending of World War 1.

The six metre tall scrap metal soldier will be stationed in St Stephen’s Green for the next four weeks.

Where’s his poppy?

Scrap!

World War One: Dublin’s ‘Haunting Soldier’ marks centenary (BBC)

Earlier: We Shall Not Sleep , Though Poppies Grow

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At the going down of the sun

This is where they slept.

The World War 1 kitbag of Major E.F. Farrell, Co. Meath of the Leinster Regiment [was it for this?, etc} containing folding bed, roll-out mattress, crying chair and a cooker with spirit lamps and phone charger.

Francis writes:

The Personal Belongings of an Irish Officer from The Leinster Regiment in World War 1 Has just sold in at Fonsie Mealy auction in Castlecomer [Co Kilkenny] for €7,250 hammer price (excluding commission).. Guide price €1,000-1500.

Great retro w/e bag, in fairness.

Fonsie Mealy

1916Kit

The packed old kit bag, 1916.

Includes soap, Oxo and ‘troubles’.

Aoife Keogh writes:

I’m currently in my final year of Visual Communications in Ballyfermot. I recently designed this infographic showing what a 1916 private soldier carried during the ‘Great War’ (fair few of them would have been Irish too), some of the stuff is particularly interesting and I think its something some of your readers might find it interesting too…

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An award-winning short by Belgian animator Joost Jansen. To wit:

A soldier goes to the front during World War I, whose horrors make him realise that the enemy is actually war itself. The testimony of this soldier stands as a metaphor for the terrible cruelty of war and the desire for peace.

Part of the 12 Minutes About Peace project –  a collection of 12 one-minute animated shorts on the theme of peace by Flemish animators.

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