News & Press
Welcome to The Heritage Councils News & Press section where you can find out all the latest news from The Heritage Council. Click on the links for more information.
FEATURED NEWS
The Heritage Council Grants Programme
The Heritage Council Grants Programme for 2011 is now open. The closing date for receipt of applications is Friday 8th October at 5.00 p.m. Please visit the Grants section of this website for information on making an application.
Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) Young Researchers Award
Call for Proposals
A Big 'Thank You' to all the National Heritage Week Event Organisers
2010 : Most successful Heritage Week to date
Irish Heritage Trust Launches New Learning Opportunities at Fota House
Fota Learning Zone creates a unique curriculum-linked experience for Transition Year and Leaving Certificate Students.
BirdWatch Ireland Appeal for your Summer Bird Sightings
BirdWatch Ireland is appealing to people across Ireland to send in their summer bird sightings to help with a landmark project, The Bird Atlas 2007-11.
Every sighting you send in from a Robin nesting in your garden shed to a...
PhD opportunity on High Nature Value Farming
"Halting biodiversity loss: the potential of high nature value (HNV) farmland in the north west of Ireland." Sligo Institute of Technology
Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research [INSTAR] Programme web archive launch
The INSTAR web archive is a new database which hosts all research created under the INSTAR Programme since its establishment in 2008. The creation of the database is a step forward in implementing one of INSTAR’s key aims to...
National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Annual Report for 2009
The National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Annual Report for 2009 is now available as a download from the Centre's website. This report highlights the main achievements of the Centre in 2009 and provides information on many of the...
Calling Traditional Skills Practitioners
The Heritage Office of Wicklow County Council is co-ordinating a Traditional Skills Day to be held in the Courtyard, Wicklow Gaol on Sat 9th October. Places are available for traditional skills practitioners based in County...
Heritage Week Events Programme now available for County Wicklow
An events programme detailing the Heritage Week happening in County Wicklow is now available from the Heritage Officer of Wicklow County Council
EVENTS
Seminar on Robert O’Hara Burke: Galway Man and Australian Explorer
Saturday 4th September 2010. Loughrea, Co. Galway.