From top: Artist Richard Gorman; Castletown House
To celebrate the arrival of ‘CASA’ an exhibition by Italy-based Irish abstract artist Richard Gorman, at Castletown House, Celbridge, Co Kildare we have two (yes TWO) Office of Public Works (OPW) Family Heritage Cards to give away.
PLUS a free lunch in the Castletown courtesy of the OPW team at Castletown.
Christina Mahon writes:
An OPW Family Heritage Card provides FREE admission for 2 Adults and 3 Children into fee paying state-managed sites for one full year from the date of first use….
To enter, please complete this sentence:
‘Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family (real or imagined) to…………………….[name of fee-paying, state managed site]’
Helpful list of sites here
Lines MUST close Saturday morning 9.30am MIDDAY 6pm.
Just give me the Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Jerpoint Abbey so they can enjoy it as much as I used to as a kid with my grandfather, many moons ago.
Mmf.
Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Clonmacnoise. It was founded by St. Ciaran who my son is named after, I’d love to bring him and my other two children there, it’s steeped in history and would be a great family day out.
You live in the Midlands don’t you? Why do you need a free pass?
Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Kilmainham Gaol, which by complete coincidence we will be visiting in a couple of weeks when we are in Dublin.
Did I mention I’ll be flying into Dublin from Brookline, Massachusetts?
With my two daughters..;)
And that I grew up in Inchicore, just up the street from Kilmainham Gaol….
Trying too hard. I disqualify you.
Ah well: thanks for your efforts.
So you’re saying there’s a chance…
Ha. As much of a chance as I’ve got: I’ll tell you that for nothin’.
Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Sligo Abbey ,Parkes Castle and all the other wonderful places of interest when we go there in July to celebrate my 60 th birthday.
‘Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family (real or imagined) to Charles Fort because Cork, obviously.”
Just give me the OPW Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Dublin Castle ……..opulent home of the notorious Irish tribes(sorry, tribunals) the Moriartys,Mahons,Floods etc.and birthplace of the infamous brown envelope and fountain of wealth to the legal profession!
PS:Thanks in advance for the HeritageCard…..brown envelope attached
Funny
Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Castletown House in Celbridge to enjoy Irelands most impressive country house and its fabulous parkland trails on Monday.. Trim Castle on Tuesday….Newgrange on Wednesday….Casino in Marino on Thursday and Rathfarnham Castle on Friday…. a full week of memory making for all the family
Just give me the OPW family heritage card as I desperately need to take my family to Kilmainham Gaol. I went on a School tour but mitched to smoke round the back. I still don’t know the history which is shockin especially in this our Centenary year!
‘Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Glendalough Visitor Centre first and then all the other heritages sites. We will definitely use the card.’
Just give me an OPW family heritage card as I desperately want to bring my family of, the long suffering wife and two very expensive teens to a free day out at last, to the magnificent Castletown House.
Just give me an OPW family heritage card as I desperately need to tak my family to the Blasket Centre in County Kerry to show them that Peig is not a figment of my imagination and to show them that Leaving Cert Irish was actually hard before the fuddy duddys got to it and tried to make it fair and yet they have the temerity to moan and talk about pressure and stress; the spoiled little….
…to Marino Casino,
where optical allusions abound and in the gardens there’s hardly a sound,
What a beautiful place to visit,
As a “pleasure house’ or is it?
Just off the Malahide road,
Me fella and I would hands hold.
‘Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family (real or imagined) to the Hill of Tara where we can be crowned the true royal family of Ireland, and it must be done before the stars align and the great occultation opens the Starry Door to the Realm Of Night allowing the return of the Dark Druids to begin their Dominion Of A Million Years over the Earth, enslaving all of humanity under terrible yokes of despair, abolishing freedom and puppies and wi-fi. So not having to pay an entry fee would be great because that is literally the only thing standing between the whole world and an eternal reign of Darkness.’
Dun Aonghasa
‘Just give me the OPW Family Heritage Card as I desperately need to take my family to Athenry Castle, Co. Galway.
Adare Castle
Those heritage cards will be items of historic interest themselves if not given away soon!
They’ll have cobwebs on them
@ Christina Mahon
Was this a spoof competition? If not, where are the results?