Chryss Goulandris was the wife of former media and industrial magnate Tony O'Reilly, and was heavily involved with The Ireland Funds.
15 Facts About Chryss Goulandris
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Chryss Goulandris was born in the United States to John Goulandris, a wealthy member of a Greek family of ship owners and operators, and Maria Lemos, from another Greek shipping dynasty.
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Chryss Goulandris grew up primarily in America, with holidays spent in Greece, chiefly on the family's ancestral home island, Andros.
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Chryss Goulandris met Tony O'Reilly briefly, with her brother Petros Goulandris, in Manhattan in 1989, at the Pierre Hotel, his usual base when staying in New York; he was in New York seeking funding for Waterford Wedgwood.
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Chryss Goulandris died suddenly in Normandy on 23 August 2023, at the age of 73.
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Chryss Goulandris managed the restoration of the Georgian house's upper floor and roof.
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Chryss Goulandris's official main residence was a house in the closed executive development of Lyford Cay near Nassau, the Bahamas; others were a complex on the southern coast of Ireland at Shorecliffe, Glandore, County Cork, and a Georgian townhouse on Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin, and a chateau in Deauville, France.
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Chryss Goulandris owned, bred, trained and raced horses under a number of house names, including at least Castlemartin Stud, Petra Bloodstock Agency, Skymarc Farm.
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Chryss Goulandris bought her first racing horse, a yearling filly, in 1976, and in 1978, following her uncle Constantin's death, took over La Louviere Stud, helped by Andre Rainjonneau.
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Chryss Goulandris's operations have a policy of selling male foals, and one of those sold was Helissio who won the 1996 Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe, while one retained was European champion miler in 1991.
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In 1993, Chryss Goulandris was appointed to the board of the Irish National Stud by the Minister for Agriculture, and in early June 1998, she was made its chairperson by Joe Walsh, in succession to David Shubotham.
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Chryss Goulandris was a director of the Wedgwood Museum Trust until June 2007 and was an honorary member.
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Chryss Goulandris was Chairperson of the O'Reilly Foundation from its establishment, was invited by family friend Paul Newman to be first Chairperson of the Barrettstown Castle Hole in the Wall Club.
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Chryss Goulandris was involved with The Ireland Funds for many years, especially with the annual Pittsburgh fundraising dinner.
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Chryss Goulandris was the President d'Honneur of the Ireland Fund of France, and funded since 1993 the bourse Chryss O'Reilly de l'Ireland Fund de France, a 2000 euro per annum scholarship for eight universities in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.