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The Heritage Council seeks to protect and enhance the richness, quality and diversity of our national heritage for everyone. It works with its partners, particularly at local level, to increase awareness of our national heritage and to highlight its importance to public policy and everyday life.

PUBLICATIONS

Heritage Outlook: Winter 2011 - Spring 2012

The magazine of the Heritage Council. This issue examines the contribution that heritage can make to both economic recovery and to Ireland's re-emerging sense of identity.

HERITAGE IN YOUR AREA

Click on your county for more information about heritage projects in you area.

Heritage In Your Area WexfordWaterfordCorkKerryClareLimerickTipperaryKilkennyWicklowDublinCarlowMeathLouthKildareLaoisOffalyWestmeathLongfordLeitrimRoscommonSligoDonegalCavanMonaghanGalwayMayo

FEATURED NEWS

Over-subscription for conference focusing on the value of heritage resources for towns attempting to recover from recession

Today, over 100 people are discussing how the heritage resources of a town can help it recover from the recession. The Conference which is jointly organised by the Heritage Council’s Irish Walled Towns Network and UCC’s Planning...

National Heritage Week 2011 - Video Clips from around the country!

Over 400,000 people from all over Ireland took part in National Heritage Week in 2011. Take a peek at what they got up to!

YOUR FEEDBACK

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FEATURED EVENT

Craft Workshops in Living Furniture, Homebrewing and Hazel Coppicing

Irish Seed Savers, Capparoe, Scarriff, Co. Clare

Annual Meeting of Irish Freshwater Biologists 2012

The Annual Meeting of Irish Freshwater Biologists will cover a wide range of topics with specific focus in the morning sessions on ‘Climate Change and Implications for Irish Freshwaters’.

VIDEO

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Dayna Baumeister Presentation Introduction

There are very few problems nature hasn’t already solved!

In this series of videos Dr. Dayna Baumeister, leading biomimicry expert and co-founder of the Biomimicry Guild, describes what’s new in the field of bio-inspired design and the promise of biomimicry to solve grand challenges while conserving life’s genius.

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