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Derek Hill’s portrait of Mariga which perfectly captures her shyness sometimes misconstrued as hauteur

This week marks the 25th anniversary of the death on May 8th 1989 of Mariga Guinness at the age of only 56. It seems an opportune moment to celebrate her life, especially since an entire generation has since grown up without having had the opportunity to meet Mariga and to benefit in person from her influence.
For those unfamiliar with her story, Marie-Gabrielle von Urach was born in September 1932, the only child of Prince Albrecht von Urach and Rosemary Blackadder. Her mother’s family were from the Scottish borders, her father’s a junior branch of the royal house of Württemberg in southern Germany; her grandfather was briefly King of Lithuania, a great-aunt Queen of Belgium and a great-grandaunt the Empress Elizabeth of Austria. Although her father had been expected to succeed to the principality of Monaco (an extraordinary story in itself), in the aftermath of the First World War this arrangement was abandoned and so he came of age with little money and no p

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Uinseann Ó Rathaille MacEoin, Irish architect, journalist, republican campaigner and historian, is born in Pomeroy, County Tyrone, on July 4, 1920.

MacEoin is born Vincent O’Rahilly McGuone to Malachy McGuone, owner of the Central Hotel in Pomeroy and a wine and spirit merchant, and Catherine (née Fox). He has three siblings. Both of his parents are nationalists, and name all their children after leaders of the Easter Rising in 1916. Under the First Dáil in 1918, his father is appointed a judge. This results in him being interned on the prison ship Argenta on Larne Lough from 1922 to 1923. The family moves to Dublin after his release. His father dies in 1933, which leads to his wife running a workingmen’s café in East Essex Street. The family later lives on Marlborough Road, Donnybrook.

MacEoin attends boarding school at Blackrock College and is then articled to the architectural practice of Vincent Kelly in Merrion Square. As an active republican, he lives in a house on Northumberland Road from late 1939 to May 1940 where he helps in the

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Mariga Guinness

Architectural conservationist and socialite

Mariga Guinness
Born	Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach 21 September 1932 London
Died	8 May 1989(1989-05-08) (aged 56) Irish Sea
Spouse	Desmond Guinness
Children	Patrick and Marina Guinness

Mariga Guinness (born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach; 21 September 1932 – 8 May 1989) was an architectural conservationist and socialite, and co-founder of the Irish Georgian Society.^[1]

Life

Early life and family

Mariga Guinness was born Hermione Maria-Gabrielle von Urach in London on 21 September 1932. She was the only child of the marriage of Prince Albrecht von Urach, from Lichtenstein Castle, a member of the House of Urach, a morganatic branch of the royal House of Württemberg, and his first wife, Rosemary Blackadder (1901–1975) from Berwickshire in Scotland, a journalist and artist, who were married in Oslo in 1931. She was a princess from birth.^[2] For the first few months of her life she was very ill.

In 1934, her parents, both working as j