Tales from a Wicklow Tea Room

Tales from a Wicklow Tea Room is the story of a tiny cottage in Glencree in the Wicklow Mountains and the tea room run there by the McGuirk family, which gained a remarkable reputation between the 1880s and the 1960s. Over this most formative period in Irish history, the cottage became a meeting place for poets, artists, writers, scientists, politicians, lawyers, and indeed, representatives of every aspect of Irish society, including some of early-twentieth-century Ireland’s most influential people, where they could relax over a cup of tea. Arthur Griffith, Robert Lloyd Praeger, John Millington Synge, Ellen Duncan, Denis Devlin, Mervyn Wall, Constantia Maxwell, Oliver St John Gogarty, Hugh Lane, William Beckett and Ella Webb are among the host of visitors. Features: photos, drawings and signatures.