Born in Limerick in 1971, West’s better half is a renowned figure in her own field.
Dominic West, however, took a different route.
As he put it, “she would go mad pretty quickly otherwise.”
And I agree with her," West toldThe Times.
“Or we’d go up on the roof and play up there for hours.
It was quite strange, I suppose.”
They hit it off and promptly became romantically involved.
“We had a wonderful love affair …
But at the end of the summer, I left him.
And he has not let me forget it!
But I couldn’t have settled down with him right then forever.
That would not have been a good idea for either of us.”
After going their separate ways, they reconnected when they were in their 30s.
“And it was lovely to have that shared history, from earlier days.”
They tied the knot in where else Glin Castle.
“I feel so excited, really happy, really thrilled,” FItzGerald told theIrish Examinerat the time.
“It’s a fairytale.”
That was when they made the difficult decision to sell it.
Instead, they came up with a plan that would allow it to remain in the family.
“It’s a labor of love,” she said.
“I appreciate how special these places are, and how rare they are, this unbroken history.
If I could make it pay for itself, I’d be satisfied.
It’s lovely to be on the map for tourists, it’s a valuable link for them.”
“She has devoted 20 years to the garden.
It’s at the core of her being.”
As she expressed toVeranda, that vast expanse of the garden is the whole point.
“The farther you go, the more you are meant to lose yourself,” FitzGerald said.
“When she is out there, her spirit is unassailable.”
“My children are surrounded by Irish wit and humanity.
They have a far broader existence than they would anywhere else in the world.”
“The house has its own spirit, which won’t let us out of its grasp.”
“But it was magical in its feeling and bones full of light and personality.”
Contributing to that inclusive feel, the festival offered food trucks and organic coffee for attendees to enjoy.
“This is meant to be fun as well.”
Years later, West addressed the scandal in an interview withThe Times.
“I hesitate to speak on my wife’s behalf because it was obviously horrible, particularly for her …
It was deeply stressful for my wife and my kids,” he said.
He did, however, admit that they also managed to laugh at the situation.
She also shared her knowledge in a piece she wrote for Irish magazineThe Gloss.
