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Jack Brabazon

John Anthony (Jack) Brabazon, 15th Earl of Meath, is an Anglo-Irish peer and landowner who lives at Killruddery House, Bray, County Wicklow, and appeared as a guest on RTÉ's Lyric Feature on Ireland's historic gardens.

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May 30, 2026

The Lyric Feature

The Lyric Feature

Politics, Pleasure & Empire: Making Ireland's Grand Gardens - Part 1 | The Lyric Feature

May 30 · 57m

Finola O'Kane-CrimminsSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER

3:55

the gardens very much?

Jack BrabazonGUEST

3:56

Do you spend a lot of time in them? Not as much as I should.

Jack BrabazonGUEST

3:59

I'm really a more forestry person.

Jack BrabazonGUEST

4:04

And on this place, we've got quite a lot of woodland and parkland trees.

Jack BrabazonGUEST

4:11

And I'm better at that, really.

Jack BrabazonGUEST

4:15

If you wanted your garden weeded and flowers planted, I wouldn't be your man, I'm afraid.

Jack BrabazonGUEST

4:24

But yes, I mean, I've inherited a sort of a fine Baroque garden, but you wouldn't employ me as a gardener.

38 MINS LATER

Mary BrophyHOST

42:09

But for the custodians of our historic gardens today, managing these early water features is not without its challenges.