The Evie Hone Garden

The Leixlip House Hotel is delighted to present the Evie Hone Garden situated in its Sister Hotel, The Liffey Valley House Hotel, just less than a half a mile from each other. The Garden has been created by our very own Gardener Tom Ashe, who has nurtured it from its inception. When you book your Wedding at the Leixlip House Hotel you have exclusive use of the Evie Hone Garden.

The Gardens provide a stunning setting for Wedding photographs that you will treasure. The Gardens have been carefully restored and serve as a unique and unrivalled backdrop.

Captain Hone, was an Irish born citizen who served in the British Army during the First World War, he occupied the Leixlip House in 1924. The Captain lived in Leixlip House with his first wife Mary and their three children. Evie Hone visited her first cousin Captain William Patrick Hone in Leixlip House on many a happy occasion.

The Leixlip House is now well known as The Leixlip House Hotel.

Evie Hone is a world renowned stained glass artist. Evie was also a noted painter. She was born in Roebuck Grove, Co. Dublin, on 22 April 1894. In 1905 Evie had become crippled by paralysis. While visiting Assisi in 1911, she became interested in stained glass. She started training at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1913 and continued her studies in Paris. During the 1920s, she also visited Spain.

During her time in Dublin Evie created one of her most famous works known simply as the ‘Evie Hone Window’ now situated in St. Mary’s Parish in Clonsilla, North Dublin. It depicts St. Fiacre whose feast day is the 1st of September and who is the Patron Saint of Gardeners.

Her work took on a more religious tone after she converted to Catholicism in 1937 and she received more than fifty commissions for stained glass both in Ireland and abroad.

One of her last works was the ‘East Window of Eton College’ which she completed in 1952 was regarded as another one of her finest achievements and earned her international recognition confirming her position as one of the best stained glass artists of her time.

Her work is now represented in all major Irish art collections, establishing her importance as one of the main artists responsible for bringing the influence of modern art to Irish painting. Evie died at Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin, on 13 March 1955 at the age of 61.

Information provided by:

·The Parishes of Castleknock and Mulhuddart with Clonsilla © 2004 url http://castleknock.dublin.anglican.org

·Henry Boylan, "A Dictionary of Irish Biography", Gill & Macmillan, Dublin, 1998. http://www.art-et-histoire.com/hone.htm