DATES: 30th September | 6th, 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st + 27th October | 3rd, 4th, 10th, 17th + 18th November

PRICE: €65

PLACE: THE GRAIN STORE

Killruddery’s Seasonal Supper Club is back with attendees enjoying a four-course set menu.

Inspired by the abundance of seasonal produce from our Walled Garden and Farm, Head Chef Niall O’Sullivan and his team prepare a vegetable and estate-reared meat focused menu for you to enjoy in our atmospheric 19th Century Grain Store.

Join us by candle light, for an evening near our roaring log fire and enjoy a four-course set menu, complete with a glass of bubbles with botanical flourish from our Walled Garden.

Please book a time slot to attend, as we are keeping numbers low, please allow 48 hours if you are unable to attend as we might have a wait list. Payment for your four-course set menu is taken upon booking. Should you be unable to attend please let us know a minumum of 48 hours before and we will do our utmost to reschedule you to another date, or process a refund should we be unable to.

Please note, this cost does not include additional wine and beverages which you will enjoy on the night. Bookings for our Seasonal Supper Club are limited to a total of 8 individuals per table.

SAMPLE SET MENU FOR SEASONAL SUPPERS HERE. 

PLACE: PIZZA SHED 

PRICE: FREE ENTRY

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

You are invited to come and view ‘Flowers and Light’, an exhibition of paintings by our current Artist in Residence, Yeoung A Yeo, taking place during Pizza Shed opening hours from Thursday, 14th September to Sunday, 29th October.

Having exhibited internationally, we are delighted to have eight of Yeoung A Yeo’s oil paintings on display and available to purchase. Depicting a number of subjects including flowers and nature scenes as well as every day objects, Yeoung A Yeo’s works explore the contrasts of light and shade, something she has been hugely inspired by since moving to Ireland in 2010.

No advance booking for this exhibition is required.

ABOUT YEOUNG A YEO:

Yeoung A Yeo was born in Busan, South Korea. Having painted since she was a toddler and received formal art education as a child, Yeoung A Yeo graduated from university in 1998 with a degree in fine art painting. After graduation, Yeoung A Yeo’s professional career in South Korea included teaching art for over 10 years, and time spent as a designer in an advertising agency. With each experience, she grew as a painter and learned to love her skill even more.

Yeoung A Yeo has been living and working in Dublin since 2010, and she has found Ireland hugely inspirational. Speaking about her experience living in Ireland, she says “Ireland has as many hours without sunlight as it does, with intense contrasts of light. However, the light I thought was absent was always there in the shade. Finding the light in the shadows always inspires me.”

FAQ:

• This exhibition will take place during Pizza Shed opening hours from Thursday, 14th September to Sunday, 29th October. Pizza Shed is open Thursday – Sunday, 12.00 – 21.00
• No advance booking is required
• Park in our main customer car park and follow signs to Pizza Shed in Killruddery Yard

FRIDAY, 22ND SEPTEMBER 

FREE OF CHARGE

PLACE: KILLRUDDERY GARDENS 

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

To celebrate Culture Night 2023, Anthony and Fionnuala Brabazon, Lord and Lady Ardee are delighted to invite you to Killruddery to experience the 17th century heritage gardens of this privately owned Wicklow estate.

Come and enjoy dusk in the formal gardens of Killruddery between 18.00 and 20.00, with access through our Garden Entrance Shop. Pre-booking not required.

ABOUT OUR GARDENS:

Killruddery gardens are among the very few remaining 17th century gardens in Ireland or Britain. They offer stunning vistas, leading the eye into landscape features with the natural background of the Little Sugar Loaf and Bray Head.

The gardens represent a ‘labour of love’ begun by the fourth and sixth Earl of Meath, continued over many generations and actively pursued by the Brabazon family today. The gardens have some twenty acres of grass, long flowering borders, ancient trees and three and a half miles of hedges – all of which must be cut, trimmed and otherwise maintained over the seasons of the year.

Designed in the Baroque style by Hugenot, Bonet (a descendent of great landscape designer, André le Nôtre, who is famous for the gardens of the Palace of Versailles near Paris), he worked within the contours of the landscape and a record dating from 1711 reports that Killruddery was endowed with ‘a Pleasure Garden, Wilderness, Gravel Walks and Bowling Green, all Wall’d about, and well planted with Fruit Trees, with several Canals or Fish-ponds, well stor’d with Carp and Trench...’

The Brabazon family have been living at Killruddery since 1618 and today we are very happy that three generations of our family live here. We have responded to the challenge of preserving the 17th century gardens, with 18th and 19th century additions, together with the house. We strive to ensure that the ingredients which make them so special are protected for our community, visitors and family.

We hope you enjoy stepping back in time during your visit. For more information on our Gardens, visit our website.

ABOUT CULTURE NIGHT: 

Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir is a national moment, celebrating all that makes up the richness and diversity of culture in Ireland today, connecting people to cultural activities locally and nationally, and aims to open up pathways to ongoing engagement.

An annual, all-island public event which takes place each year on the third Friday of September, Culture Night / Oíche Chultúir celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and seeks to actively promote the belief that this rich and varied culture is alive, treasured and nurtured in people’s lives, today and every day.

Special and unique events and workshops are specifically programmed at participating locations, and thanks to the continued support of the Arts Council and local Authorities across the island of Ireland, all activities are made available to the public free of charge. For more information visit www.culturenight.ie 

FAQ: 

• This is free event and there is no need to book in advance
• Please dress for the weather
• Garden Open Season at Killruddery takes place from April to October each year, with our Gardens open Tuesday – Sunday, and on Bank Holidays during this time

ADULT: €150

ADULT MEMBER: €135

EVENT DESCRIPTION

To celebrate and be present among autumn’s abundance, we invite you to join us and weave a beautiful, harvest wreath of hedgerow, field and garden bounty.

During this Harvest Wreath Making Workshop, which is complete with two-course lunch, you will weave autumnal golds, browns and auburns into your very own natural style wreath, to decorate your door or any place you choose as the evenings draw in.

All materials for this workshop will be supplied, with much dried foliage from the cut flower border of our Victorian Walled Garden, along with the woodlands and hedgerows of Killruddery to best represent this time of year and seasonality.

This workshop will be facilitated by Founder of Killruddery Cut Flowers, Fionnuala Brabazon (Lady Ardee), Lead Florist, Hanka Miziova and will take place in our sunlit Garden Room.

This workshop is suitable for anyone who wishes to create their very own harvest wreath using beautiful, seasonal material. The day will begin with a woodland walk, followed by a wreath making demonstration by the Killruddery Cut Flowers team, and a two course lunch in the The Grain Store, with a menu designed by Head Chef Niall O’Sullivan using produce from our Walled Garden.

FAQ:

• This workshop will take place from 10.00 - 16.00
  
• All materials and tools are supplied 
• Dress to suit the day's weather, with shoes to suit a woodland walk
• Please allow plenty of time to arrive, park in our main customer car park and follow the signs to the workshop 

PRE-CONCERT DINNER + CONCERT TICKET:  ADULT: €69   ADULT MEMBER: €62

CONCERT TICKET ONLY: ADULT: €20   ADULT MEMBER: €18

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Anthony and Fionnuala Brabazon, Lord and Lady Ardee are delighted to welcome Vyvienne Long and Roger Doyle on Friday, 29th September for an evening of music. 

Taking place in The Orangery, this concert promises to bring the audience on two fantastic journeys, one to the wonderland of internationally renowned, local pianist and composer, Roger Doyle where the unexpected can be relied upon, harmonically inviting you to languish in the atonal soundscape of mystery and madness. 

The second half of the concert will then arrive at a familiar destination - the singer songwriter genre. The songs and delicately considered piano accompaniment of singer and cellist, Vyvienne Long are sweetly and unapologetically honest, but be prepared to interrupt the sonic languishing with intermittent belly ache laughter.  

Bound to be a wonderful night of original music, make an evening of it with a special pre-concert dinner in The Grain Store, featuring a seasonal set menu of fare grown and reared in Killruddery, just a few metres away from your concert venue. 

The pre-concert dinner will begin at 18.30, with the concert beginning at 21.00 for a duration of one hour.

ABOUT VYVIENNE LONG: 

What makes Vyvienne’s music so unusual is that she was the first to conceive and perform ‘cello song’ in Europe, enchanting festival-goers with her astonishing cover of The White Stripes’ Seven Nation Army. She has performed at venues worldwide since, including the Olympia Paris, Radio City New York, Glastonbury, Coachella and Wembley Arena and collaborated with artists such as Ed Sheeran, DJ Kormac and most recently the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

Critics have compared her combination of subtle demeanour and heavyweight musical power with Bjork, Tori Amos and Joanna Newsom. Visit www.vyviennelong.com for more.

ABOUT ROGER DOYLE:

Roger Doyle is known for his pioneering work as a composer of electronic music. He has worked extensively in theatre, film and dance, in particular with the music-theatre company Operating Theatre, which he co-founded with the performer Olwen Fouréré. Works of his include his magnum opus, ‘Babel’ which took ten years to compose, along with an onstage piano score for the Gate Theatre production of Salomé, which played in London’s West End and on three world tours. Roger is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists and was recently elected to the higher honour of Saoi conferred on him by President Michael D. Higgins. For more information, visit www.rogerdoyle.com

FAQ:

• Pre-concert dinner will take place in The Grain Store at 18.30, and will feature a three course set menu with freestyle seating 
• This concert will take place in The Orangery of Killruddery House and will begin at 21.00, lasting for one hour 
• Please allow plenty of time to arrive and park in our main customer car park. If you are attending our pre-concert dinner please follow signs to The Grain Store, otherwise please follow signs to The Orangery for the concert

ADULT: €95

ADULT MEMBER: €85.50

EVENT DESCRIPTION

On Sundays, 8th and 15th October, join Ireland’s premier mycophagist, Bill O’Dea for a dedicated course to learn about one of nature’s most underestimated mysteries – fungi, as you hunt and forage around our 800 acre Estate.

The only dedicated mushoom hunts held at Killruddery, this workshop is suitable for complete beginners and intermediate practictioners, with all materials provided.
After tea/coffee and scones on arrival, Bill will give a talk on the wonderful world of mushrooms with guidance on identifying edible and toxic mushrooms, while also sharing information on their medicinal uses, nutrition and their importance in ecosystems. Then, the mushroom hunting will commence!

Once your mushrooms have been gathered (in previous years up to fifty varieties have been found) you’ll return to base and enjoy lunch in The Grain Store, before Bill and his team will help identify and cook your findings, so you can sample your foraged delights.

ABOUT BILL O’DEA:

Bill O’Dea is a passionate Irish mycophagist who has been running mushroom hunts in Ireland and abroad since 1996. He also speaks internationally at mushroom festivals in Spain, France and Turkey.

As well as his love of foraging mushrooms and other wild foods, Bill enjoys sharing his knowledge on the fascinating, amusing and sometimes horrific aspects of fungi and their relationship to the planet and the other natural kingdoms.

Bill’s hunts in Ireland have received plenty of media attention, and having studied at UCD, he is an active member of the Association of Foragers (a UK/European wide professional foragers group) and an Irish delegate for Terra Madre Salone del Gusto - an international event dedicated to food politics, sustainable agriculture and the environment.

Bill runs several public mushroom hunts every autumn and is also available for private events. He has enjoyed sharing his passion with a variety of groups who have joined him on previous hunts. For more information on Bill, visit www.mushroomstuff.com 

WHO IS THIS WORKSHOP FOR?

• This workshop is for complete beginners & intermediate practitioners
• Those looking to explore and expand the art of mushroom foraging
• Those looking to gain confidence with a new creative outlet 
• Anyone looking to spend time with like-minded individuals doing something new and creative 

FAQ:

• All materials for this workshop are supplied
  
• This workshop will take place from 10.30 - 16.00 and includes a welcome tea/coffee and scone on arrival, and lunch in The Grain Store
• Please wear warm, thick soled shoes, and dress to suit the day's weather
• Please allow yourself plenty of time to arrive, park in our main customer car park and follow signs to the workshop 

REGISTRATION & SCARECROW KIT: €15 

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Killruddery’s Annual Scarecrow Competition is back for another year! It’s becoming somewhat of a tradition to transform our Entrance Avenue into a spooky scarecrow parade with delightfully creative entries, for all to see in the lead up to Halloween - will you create yours?

Following good agricultural tradition, your scarecrow should be created around a wooden stake and be stuffed with plenty of straw. To enter, purchase your scarecrow starter kits (a wooden base and straw) at our Farm Shop for €15 from Friday, 6th October and return your creation by 17.00 on Saturday, 28th October. Judging will take place on Bank Holiday Monday on 30th October, with winners announced between 14.00 and 15.00 at our Halloween Hooley in the Walled Garden. Enter today and be in with a chance of winning a Killruddery Gold Membership and Farm Shop Hamper to enjoy over Samhain.

This year’s judges include Killruddery Fionnuala Brabazon (Lady Ardee and Killruddery Creative Director), Julie Kelleher (Director of the Mermaid Arts Centre) and Tom Jenkinson (Farm Manager) who will be judging with three categories in mind – Most Imaginative, Scariest and Best Made.

Scarecrows will be left on display until the 1st November, and participants may take their scarecrow home from 17.00 on the 30th October to decorate their homes. GOOD LUCK!

FAQ:

• This event is open for all ages – team work encouraged!
• Scarecrow starter kits are available to purchase from the Farm Shop from Friday, 6th October
• Return deadline is 17.00, Saturday the 28th October to our Farm Shop
• Judging will take place on Monday the 30th October with winners announced at the Walled Garden Halloween Hooley between 14.00 – 15.00 and then online

TIME: 09.30 - 17.00

PLACE: THE WALLED GARDEN 

PRICE: GARDEN ENTRY FEE APPLIES 

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

We dare you to visit our Walled Garden pumpkin patch, back in the Walled Garden this year. Select your pumpkin to bring home and carve, or join us for our Halloween Hooley on Sunday + Monday, 29^th + 30^th October to get your design carved with members of Bray Lions – who will be taking donations at their carving station on the day.

Open from the 21st - 31st October, don’t miss this special chance to unite with your family this spooky season!

FAQ:

• Pre-booking is not essential
• Pumpkins are not included in the price of Garden Entry, and can be purchased from our Carrot & Coffee Corner during your visit 

TIME: 11.00 - 16.00

PLACE: THE WALLED GARDEN 

EVENT DESCRIPTION:

The ancient festival of Samhain is upon us, often known as the Celtic New Year, it marks the beginning of the long winter nights. On Sunday, 29^th October and Monday, 30^th October we celebrate the light days of summer and dark nights of winter with a Halloween Hooley – complete with pumpkin carving, music from The Hot Dots, face painting and so much more.

Visit our Walled Garden pumpkin patch, pick your pumpkin, and have your pumpkin carved with members of Bray Lions Club, who will be taking charity donations at their carving station this year to aid the work they do in our community. Cash and card donations will be accepted on the day.

Between 14.00 and 15.00 on Monday, 30^th October our Scarecrow Judges will also be announcing the winners of this year’s Scarecrow Competition, to get the Midterm break off to a spook-tacular start.

There will be plenty of treats to purchase from our Carrot & Coffee Corner and of course picnics welcome!

Join us for our Halloween Hooley this year – it’ll be hauntingly good.

ABOUT BRAY LIONS:

Bray Lions Club was founded in 1987 when a group of community minded people, including members of the Sugarloaf Lions Club in Greystones, decided to set up a Lions Club in Bray to provide local help to those in need and improve their environment.

Through their work, 100% of the funds raised by Lions Club from the general public are used exclusively for charitable purposes. Their projects include Bray Sea Swim, Schools Breakfast Club, Young Ambassador programme,, spectacle recycling, 'Little Green Book and so much more. For more information on Bray Lions, visit www.braylionsclub.ie

FAQ:

• This event will take place in our Walled Garden from 11.00 – 16.00 on Sunday, 29th October and Monday, 30th October
• This event is suitable for all ages – costumes are encouraged however they may get mucky!
• This event is on a first come, first serve basis with no need to book in advance 
• Pumpkins are not included in the price of this ticket, and they can be purchased from our Carrot & Coffee Corner

SATURDAY, 11TH NOVEMBER

TICKETS: €130 pp   €1,300 TABLE OF 10

PLACE: KILLRUDDERY YARD & GRAIN STORE 

DRESS CODE: COCKTAIL DRESS / LOUNGE SUIT

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Anthony and Fionnuala Brabazon, Lord and Lady Ardee invite you to Killruddery’s annual Harvest Moon Gala Charity Ball in aid of Their Lives Matter, Tanzania - a charity very close to Lady Ardee’s heart.

With this wonderful event making a return for another year, you will be welcomed with a drinks reception in Killruddery Yard before making your way to our 19th Century Grain Store for a gala dinner with music, dancing and general merriment until late.

Complete with a raffle and auction on the evening, proceeds from this charity ball will go towards the wonderful work that Their Lives Matter does, expanding children’s cancer services in Tanzania, and helping to achieve TLM’s mission to provide free and curative treatment for the children of Tanzania, every time.

Join us in your finery for a fantastic evening, all in aid of a very worthy cause.

ABOUT THEIR LIVES MATTER 

Their Lives Matter was founded by Bray native Dr. Trish Scanlan in a tiny ward in Tanzania with a team that included one local medical colleague and five nurses. Before this wonderful charity was founded, nine out of ten children with cancer who reached treatment facilities in Tanzania, died. In addition to this, those that reached these facilities represented less than 10% of children with cancer in Tanzania. As a result - in overall terms a cancer diagnosis was fatal for almost every child in the country. In 2005, less than 10 percent of children diagnosed with cancer survived; now over 50% of children diagnosed with cancer survive as a result of the work of everyone at TLM and the Tanzanian children’s cancer network.

Curing kids’ cancer in Tanzania - together we can!

ADULT: €160

ADULT MEMBER: €148.50

EVENT DESCRIPTION

This Advent, we invite you to join us for a Christmas Wreath Making Workshop, complete with mulled wine, a three-course lunch and your own Christmas wreath to take home.

Weave seasonal cheer into a natural style wreath which will bring joy to you and your visitors on your doorstep this Christmas.

All materials for this workshop will be supplied from our cut flower border in our Victorian Walled Garden, along with the woodlands and hedgerows of Killruddery to best represent this time of year.

With a warm welcome to her home from Fionnuala Brabazon, Lady Ardee, who will be joined by Hanka Miziova (Lead Florist of Killruddery Cut Flowers) and team-member Stephanie Burke, at the end of the workshop you will go home with your wreath to decorate your door or any place you choose.

This workshop is for anyone who wants to enjoy creating in the beautiful surroundings of our Victorian Orangery, using lots of beautiful seasonal material. Your day will include a woodland walk, mince pies and mulled wine, a wreath making demonstration and lunch in The Grain Store with a menu designed by Head Chef Niall O’Sullivan using produce from our Walled Garden and Farm.

FAQ:

• This workshop will take place from 10.00 - 16.00
  
• All materials and tools are supplied 
• Dress to suit the day's weather, with shoes to suit a woodland walk
• This workshop is suitable for adults only 
• Please allow plenty of time to arrive, park in our main customer car park and follow the signs to the workshop 

CHILD: €25

ADULT: FREE ENTRY WHEN ACCOMPANYING CHILD

EVENT DESCRIPTION

Ho ho ho! Santa Claus and his elves will be returning to Killruddery this year, after some time away.

Facilitated by Me And The Moon, Killruddery’s Children’s Creative Partner, this year little people and their adults can expect to explore our festive surroundings and look forward to a festive clay workshop, creating drawings and Christmas tree decorations with Santa’s elves, before visiting Santa Claus himself in his residence at Killruddery. Each visitor will go home with a little gift as well as their creations, a lovely way to ease your family in to the Christmas cheer.

You are invited to dress up and celebrate one of the most wonderful times of the year with Me And The Moon, Santa Claus, the Elves and all at Killruddery – we look forward to seeing you in all your festive cheer!

FAQ:

• Tickets for this year’s Santa Claus visits are limited to 12 children per time slot. Babies under 18 months are welcome to join us, if they are accompanying a sibling and not participating in the workshops, there is no charge. Accompanying adults are free
• Advanced booking is essential, and all bookings will be processed online only. Bookings will not be taken by phone or email
• Please take careful note of the dates and times you book as these can not be amended once payment has been processed
• Please allow plenty of time to arrive, park in our main customer car park and follow signs to our Santa Claus event with Me And The Moon