Seamus Daly is making gorgeous geodesic domes that offer a magical retreat from the elements in your very own garden The Cupola geodesic dome at this year's Bloom festival Seamus Daly, founder of Geodesic Domes Ireland Brian Fay, Eoin Fegan, Seamus Daly and Lorcan Golden of Geodesic Domes Ireland Hydrangea arborescens Dahlia In what must be one of the most picturesque locations for a craft business on our island, Seamus Daly and his team create futuristic greenhouses in a workshop overlooking a stunning valley in the Dublin Mountains. Formerly a building contractor, Seamus specialised in house extensions. Work was plentiful but full-on and around the clock.
He and his Danish wife, Nette, had a young family and Seamus wanted to spend more time with them as they grew up. He’d built the family home himself and it was the search for a greenhouse suited to a windy garden that led to a new enterprise. Ferocious winds can rip through the valley and locals advised that a greenhouse would be blown away.
Believing there must be a solution, Seamus remembered a structure he’d come across while leafing through an old book called Shelter . In its pages, Seamus learned of the work of Buckminster Fuller, who in 1948 came up with the name of ‘geodesic dome’ for a style of architectural dome created from rigid triangular elements. Figuring that this could be a solution for a windblown garden, Seamus began investigating where to source a greenhouse dome.
They were available online but t.