{{short description|Golden Guinness Girl of the 1920s}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | honorific_prefix = The Right Honourable | name = The Baroness Oranmore | image = The Hon. Mrs. Philip Leyland Kindersley (née Oonagh Guinness).jpg | caption = Portrait by Philip de László, 1931 | birth_name = | birth_date = 22 February 1910 | birth_place = London, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1995|8|2|1910|2|22|df=y}} | death_place = Luggala, County Wicklow, Ireland | death_cause = | nationality = | education = | alma_mater = | occupation = | title = | known_for = Socialite, society hostess and art collector; one of the ''Golden Guinness Girls'' | spouse = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Hon. Philip Kindersley|1929|1936}} * {{marriage|Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore|1936|1950}} }} | children = Gay Kindersley, Garech Browne and Tara Browne | parents = Ernest Guinness<br />Marie Clothilde Russell | relatives = Aileen Guinness (sister)<br /> Maureen Constance Guinness (sister)<br /> Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (grandfather)<br /> Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet (grandfather) | family = Guinness }}

'''Oonagh Browne, Baroness Oranmore''' (née '''Guinness''' ; 22 February 1910&nbsp;– 2 August 1995) was an Anglo-Irish socialite, society hostess and art collector, and the second wife of Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne.

==Early life== She was born on 22 February 1910 in Hanover Square, London, the youngest of the three daughters of Ernest Guinness (1876–1949) and Marie Clothilde Russell (1873–1953), daughter of Sir George Russell, 4th Baronet. Ernest Guinness was the second son of Edward Guinness, 1st Earl of Iveagh (1847–1927).<ref name="ODNB">{{cite ODNB|last1=Wilson |first1=Derek |title=Oonagh Guinness (1910–1995) |publisher=OUP |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/72210 |year=2004 }}</ref> She believed that she was "the favourite of her father's three blonde and blue-eyed daughters".<ref name="Independent"/> Along with her two sisters, Aileen and Maureen, the Guinness sisters were celebrated as the ''Golden Guinness Girls'' of 1920s British society.<ref name="Independent">{{cite news|last1=Luke|first1=Michael|title=OBITUARY: Oonagh Oranmore|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-oonagh-oranmore-1595833.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-oonagh-oranmore-1595833.html |archive-date=24 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|accessdate=28 November 2017|work=The Independent|date=11 August 1995}}</ref>

==Public life== Oonagh was a prominent hostess, particularly after her second divorce in 1950, when the Luggala Estate became a centre of Irish social life. "Oonagh somehow imbued Luggala with enchantment. Nobody could keep away: Dublin intelligentsia, literati, painters, actors, scholars, hangers-on, toffs, punters, poets, social hang-gliders were attracted to Luggala as to nowhere else in Ireland&nbsp;— perhaps even in Europe, from where many would come. And the still centre of this exultant, exuberant chaos was Oonagh."<ref name= "Independent"/>

==Personal life== At age 19, Oonagh was engaged to the Hon. Philip Kindersley, the second son of the banker Robert Kindersley, 1st Baron Kindersley.<ref name="Independent"/> In 1929, she married the Hon. Philip Kindersley, and they had two children,<ref name="Independent" /> though only one lived to reach adulthood as her daughter Teresa died as a teenager and is buried on the shores of Lough Tay near Luggala. Gay Kindersley (1930–2011), National Hunt jockey and Jockey Club steward was her son.<ref name="ODNB" /> Their marriage was dissolved in 1936.<ref name="Independent" />

In 1936, she married Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne, and her father gave her Luggala, an 18th-century hunting lodge in County Wicklow. They had three children:<ref name="Independent" /> Garech Domnagh Browne (1939–2018), an unnamed son (1943–1943), and Tara Browne (1945–1966), who died in a car accident. Tara and the unnamed boy are buried beside Teresa.<ref name="ODNB" /> Oonagh and Dominick divorced in 1950.<ref name="ODNB" />

From 1957 to 1965, she was married to Miguel Ferreras Aciro (1927–1999), a New York dress designer.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name="Independent"/> He was extravagant and a controversial figure,<ref>{{Cite news |date=31 July 1961 |title=Ferreras Came Here as Student Of U.S. Designs |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/07/31/archives/ferreras-came-here-as-student-of-us-designs.html |access-date= |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> who later was discovered to be an ex-fascist imposter – they divorced in 1965.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Hourican |first=Bridget |title=Guinness, Oonagh |url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/guinness-oonagh-a3685 |website=Dictionary of Irish Biography}}</ref>

She died at her famous residence, Luggala on 2 August 1995.<ref name="ODNB"/><ref name=":0" />

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