Property has long been the national obsession. Stories of lavish spending, gross over-borrowing and large, rambling piles might bring to mind Celtic Tiger era Ireland, but this theme goes back much further than...
A new book on Irish Post Offices has just been launched. Written by Maire Crean, it was officially launched on June 18th by historian Thomas Packenham in DIT Bolton Street. “How often do...
Jimmy Deenihan, TD, Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has launched the RIAI’s new Annual Review, Irish Architecture, Vol.2. Containing 144-pages of award-winning buildings alongside essays and reviews by leading cultural and...
Bungalow Bliss by Jack Fitzsimons was the best-known book, but there were other planbooks in Ireland during the 1970s. The Irish Bungalow Book by Ted McCarthy, and published by Mercier Press, Cork, circa...
To the uninitiated visitor, Mussenden Temple is something of an enigma. It presents many mysteries: Is it really a temple? Who built it and why? What could possibly be inside it? A new...
Jimmy Deenihan, T.D., Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has launched his Department’s Architectural Heritage Survey of West Cork and the associated book, An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of West Cork...
The Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, yesterday launched his Department’s Architectural Heritage Survey of County Longford and the associated book, An Introduction to the Architectural Heritage of County Longford. The...
A new UAHS publication by Paul Larmour aims to be much more than the history of a remarkable project and a guide to the building – it is an architectural feast that will...
On 10th November, the Ulster Architectural Heritage Society (UAHS) launched its new publication, ‘Bendhu and its Builders’ by Andrew Cowser at the Meter House, The Gasworks in Belfast. Speaking at the launch acclaimed...
