Heaven really is a place on earth
TIM SMIT, the man behind the Eden Project, or what the New York Times has dubbed “the eighth wonder of the world”, spoke at the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts in Britain last year. Mareta Doyle, chairperson of the Kinsale Arts Festival, approached him after his talk.
“She mugged me,” says Smit. “She said to me, ‘You’re going to be speaking in Kinsale’. I said, ‘Pardon?’ She said, ‘Yes, you’ll be speaking in Kinsale. I will invite you and you will come’. I wasn’t really given an option to be honest. She is a bit of a force of nature.”
