The Heritage Council has launched a new round of the Historic Towns Initiative for 2019. The scheme will make €1 million available to support heritage-led regeneration in a number of our historic towns.
The Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Josepha Madigan, T.D. today launched the Heritage Council’s new Strategic Plan, Heritage at the Heart 2018-2022. The aim of the strategic plan is to engage with issues relevant to Ireland in 2018-2022, and to bolster the heritage sector so that it better able to deal with contemporary challenges.
What impact will the UK’s decision to leave the EU have on museums on the Irish border? That’s one of the key questions to be explored as part of ‘Do Borders Matter? The Role of Museums and Heritage in Crossing the Line’, a conference hosted by the Local Authority Museums Network (LAMN) at the County Museum Dundalk.
Featuring the works of An Túr Gloinne and Harry Clarke, the Heritage Council’s map-viewing portal HeritageMaps.ie, today (6.09.18) launched a new interactive map containing details of some of Ireland’s most spectacular stained glass windows.
More than 2,000 events are planned across the country for National Heritage Week 2018. This year we're asking you to ‘Share a Story, Make a Connection’.
Eight museums have been awarded full accreditation and 1 museum interim accreditation under the Heritage Council's Museum Standards Programme for Ireland at an award ceremony today in Kilkenny Castle.