Heritage Week: 17th to 25th August

National Heritage Week, an initiative by the Heritage Council, celebrates all things heritage. It brings together communities, families, organisations, cultural institutions, academics and enthusiasts, to build awareness about the value of heritage and support its conservation.

National Heritage Week 2024 will take place from 17th-25th August. This year we will celebrate the theme of “Connections, Routes & Networks”.

The theme of Connections, Routes and Networks invites you to explore the links between people and communities, to look at what brings us together and what connects us. We are all connected in a variety of ways to each other, to our families and to our communities.

There will be plenty of Dublin 8 highlights in the programme, including special events at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral and Christ Church Cathedral, Dublinia, Marsh’s Library and more. Among the events announced so far:

• Special guided tours of Dublinia – explore Dublin’s Viking and medieval past and the sights and smells of the early settlement and city
• A Fossil Discovery Walk with Ireland’s Fossil Heritage – highlighting the fossil wonders in places that we walk by every day.
• Biodiversity tours of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham and visits to Bully’s Acre
• Why not try your hand at bell ringing or take in a lunchtime recital at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral? Or learn more about its spectacular stained glass windows.
• Small steam, Mighty river: the history of the Camac with Kilmainham Inchicore Heritage Group
• The history of hanging and hangmen at Kilmainham Gaol

and more to come.

Heritage Week is run by the Heritage Council of Ireland.  Details of the programme can be found at https://www.heritageweek.ie/event-listings .