International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures

The International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures was a world's fair held in Dublin, Ireland in 1865 attended by almost 1 million visitors.

Guinness supplied the Coburg Gardens, a 15-acre site to the company,[2] which lay between Hatch Street, Harcourt Street and Earlsfort Terrace;[3] and they additionally leased 2 more acres for exhibition grounds.

[4] In addition to the main site and gardens; vegetable, seeds, and farm implements were displayed at the Royal Dublin Society buildings (now Archaeology and Natural History Museum buildings) in Kildare Street.

The fair attracted 956,000 visitors [1] with averages of 5,000 day visitors, and 3,000 evening visitors[7] Displays of fine arts, textiles, manufactured goods and raw materials occupied 4,781 display cases (2,413 British Isles, 2,368 foreign countries, cities and colonies).

[7] A rustic grotto and some statues remain in Iveagh Gardens.

1860s engraving labelled of interior of the Dublin Exhibition Palace"