Category: Events

The Westmeath Independent reports that an exhibition on the bridges of Athlone will be launched on Tuesday 19th December 2023 at 18:30 in Athlone Library

The exhibition will run until 8th January 2024.

Open House Dublin 2023 takes place between 7th and 15th October 2023. I have compiled a list of events with an IH connection.

In addition to events at specific sites, there are a number of film clips of other venues on the OHD site and three of these are relevant:

Poolbeg Chimneys

Iveagh Markets

Pigeon House Power Station

The above titled event takes place on 27th September 2023 in the Linen Hall in Belfast. The event is free, but booking is required.

The Dublin Festival of History runs from 25th September to 15th October 2023 and has many events of an IH nature.

I have created a page to list these.

The Clonsilla and Porterstown Heritage Society are organising the Clonsilla Heritage Festival on 16th/17th September 2023 and a couple of the events are of an IH nature as follows:

Clonsilla & Royal Canal Heritage Walk – 16th September 2023

The Royal Canal / Shackleton’s Mill, plus Royal Canal Photo Exhibition – 16th September 2023

I have created a page listing the Northern Ireland Heritage Days events with an IH connection.

I did another review of the Heritage Week events listings and have updated the page for Heritage Week 2023 to reflect additional events.

An exhibition to commemorate the former chipboard factory in Scariff, Co. Clare, will be held on Saturday and Sunday 5th/6th August 2023.

Greenore, Co. Louth, is something of an architectural anomaly in Ireland. If you have never visited the town, I’d suggest you do. Not only because it is the only discrete railway town in Ireland,* but because the architecture is straight out of northern England.

The reason for this is that the town was built as a company town by the Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway (DN&GR) which was financed by the London & North Western Railway.

In recognition of this architectural heritage, there is currently an exhibition in the town which celebrates this.

The exhibition is in the Assembly Rooms on the first floor of the former Greenore Co-operative Society Building on Euston Street, Greenore and runs until 20th August 2023.

* Whilst there are concentrations of railway company provided housing in Ireland, including at Rosslare, Co. Wexford (co-incidentally, previously known as Greenore) and Inchicore in Dublin, both areas have expanded beyond the original development and can no longer be architecturally identified as a discrete development.

The above titled talk will take place in the Tara Hotel in Killybegs on 15th August 2023 at 19:00.