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Gearing up for National Heritage Week 2012!
Communities nationwide are being encouraged by the Heritage Council to get involved in National Heritage Week by organising an event in their town or village. National Heritage Week 2012 takes place nationwide from 18th – 26th August.
Your Place or Mine? New initiatives engaging communities in interpreting and presenting heritage - Conference, Dublin, April 2012
Minister Jimmy Deenihan; Gustavo Araoz, President of ICOMOS International; Neil Silberman, Chair, ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Interpretation & Presentation;Wiliam Cumming speak at this conference.
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National Heritage Week 2011!
Over 600,000 people from all over the country took part in National Heritage Week in 2011. Events included medieval fairs, night time bat walks, classical music, poetry, theatre, traditional music, storytelling, historical re-enactments, local history walks and talks, maritime and coastal events, food fairs, traditional skills workshops and archaeological digs. There really was something for everyone and most events were free!
Check out some of the action in the clips below!
Recording Ireland's Biodiversity
An initiative of the Heritage Council, the National Biodiversity Data Centre has been documenting Ireland's wildlife since 2007. This lovely video has lots of interesting facts, figures and images of Ireland's wildlife and biodiversity.
Dr. Dayna Baumeister - Biomimicry Lecture, Dublin 2010
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.
This lecture was a Heritage Council event on September 7th, 2010. Introduction by Paul Cunningham, RTÉ Environment Correspondent at the Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2.
HERITAGE IN YOUR AREA
Select your county from the drop-down list below for more information about heritage projects in your area.