Category: Events

I have compiled a listing of events of an IH nature taking palce under the Open House banner in Dublin in October.

The Dromore Linen Festival is taking place between 18 and 24 September 2025.

A week long festival in connection with the former linen industry, this includes McConville’s Mill Open Day (Sat 20 Sept).

Hourly tours will guide visitors through the processes of retting, breaking, scutching, and heckling. A free shuttle bus will run between the mill and the town square.

Culture Night takes place on September 19 2025. I have compiled a list of Culture Night events of an IH nature:

BELFAST
Past, Present & Future of Belfast Public Transport

CORK

Rising Sons Brewery: Brewery Tour

DUBLIN

Dublin Docklands: An Exhibition of Photographs

Step back in time in The Liberties – Iveagh Trust Tour

KILDARE

Culture Night at The Steam Museum and Lodge Park Walled Garden

WEXFORD

Guided tours at the Hook Lighthouse

The Dublin Festival of History 2025 takes place between 26th September and 11th October 2025. I have reviewed the listing of events and created a page listing those events that are of an IH interest.

Northern Ireland Heritage Open Days is taking place on 13th and 14th September 2025 (some events on Friday 12th).

I have created a listing of events of an IH nature.

The above titled play, described as “a show featuring music, singing and theatrical performances telling the story of miners’ lives in the coal mines of the Slieveardagh area of Tipperary” is taking place on 29th August 2025 in The Horse and Jockey Hotel’s Derrynaflan Theatre.

Further details, including how to buy tickets, can be found here.

I decided to leave compiling the Heritage Week listing until later this year, rather than having to do multiple reviews of the listings. The list of IH related events in Heritage Week is now online here.

There is a significant reduction in the number of IH related events this year, compared to previous years, which is regrettable.

Well known historian Rob Goodbody will be giving a talk on the Bridges of Wicklow to the Roundwood Historical Society on 20th May 2025 at 20:00 in the Roundwood Parish Hall.

There is a charge of €5 for non members of the Society, reduced to €3 for Roundwood Historical Society members.

Nationwide is a thrice weekly TV programme on RTE1, covering local interest stories not covered in mainstream news reports.

The three editions in the week commencing 28th April 2025 (Monday 28th April, Wednesday 30th April and Friday 2nd May) are devoted to Dublin Port and may be of interest.

H/T to the yaycork.ie website for bringing this to my attention.

The Galley Head Lighthouse in Cork will be open to visit on Sunday 27 April 2025 between 1200 and 1700. For those wandering around the grounds of the lighthouse, there is no charge but a charge of €5 applies for those wishing to climb the lighthouse tower.

Parking is not available at the lighthouse, but a shuttle bus will be running to/from the lighthouse to facilitate visitors.