Leabharlann na Meán

Speech at a Garden Party for Representatives of Ireland’s Island Communities

The second event in the 2017 series of Garden Parties hosted by President and Sabina Higgins focused on paying tribute to the people and organisations that work to support and promote healthy, thriving communities on Ireland's inhabited islands.

The President and Sabina invited people from islands communities across Ireland, as well as from organisations and institutions that support, or relate to, island life.

Palabras del Presidente Higgins a la visita de una Delegación de Educación Superior de Centroamérica

Speech to a visiting delegation of Universities from Central America, given at Áras an Uachtaráin, on 19 June 2017.

Speech by President Higgins at the Opening of Shekina Exhibition

Twenty years after visiting as Minister for Arts, President Higgins returned to Shekina Garden in Glenmalure.

President Higgins was Minister for the Arts, Culture and the Gaeltacht when Catherine McCann gifted the Shekina Garden to the State, a transfer which the President (then Minister) formalised on the occasion of a visit to Shekina in 1997.

This visit was, in fact, one of the last duties the President performed on his final day as a member of cabinet.

The exhbition of art in the Garden includes works of the late Fred Conlon, Sculptor.