Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.” It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was last there. Just a few years ago, #Paris was choking in car traffic much more. This is new. This is leadership. Cities are a result of choices. HT Fouad Khayat

Sunday Times 'Best buys for Christmas' More than Concrete Blocks Dublin City’s Twentieth-Century Buildings and Their Stories, Volume 3 — 1973-99 Edited by Ellen Rowley and Carole Pollard Ellen Rowley University College Dublin thetimes.co.uk/article/257d10…

So many beautiful books on Blah Cliath this year, can I recommend six if you're running around town in a panic looking for something for the professional Dub in your life? MORE THAN CONCRETE BLOCKS VOL 3: We owe Ellen Rowley and Carole Pollard a lot for this publication, which

Dublin’s 20th century architecture can get a raw deal, More Than Concrete Blocks highlights its many strengths Architecture Ireland ucdarchitecture Ellen Rowley Dublin City Heritage Office Carole Pollard University College Dublin RIAI In bookshops nationwide now📚 Read more irishtimes.com/culture/art/20…

It’s all about Ellen Rowley & #HerbertSimms today. Start of a new year means writing a new book. Flats & Cottages: Herbert Simms & the housing of Dublins working class 1932-1948 with Mal McCann will be out later this year with Merrion Press

TY students completed their Architecture in Schools project this week! Irish Architecture Foundation 🤗They gave final presentations on their creative architectural designs🌅Their task was to redesign&upgrade Mountjoy Square 🤩Thanks to Muhammad Achour for his wonderful work with students!🤗

Join us at IAF House for the third in a series of conversations on books about architecture: Books Downstairs, featuring Cormac M & Ellen Rowley in conversation with Dr Dervla MacManus, 11 March, 1pm. Booking now open! bit.ly/Books-Downstai…

Can we get a big 🥳 for all the women making waves in Irish architecture! We asked women from across the Building Change project about who has inspired and influenced them, and any advice they’d give to you aspiring architects. Here’s what they had to say. 🎥 Mike Hannon Media

Excited to screen this stunning film essay as part of the Theorising Research Ecologies? symposium University College Dublin on Thurs, 11th April. (dir. Fiona Hallinan with Ellen Rowley, 2023, Arts Council of Ireland, Aemi). To register: forms.gle/Tq2RQz2VyUfQaM…

I'll be taking part in this great series of lunchtime talks at the IAF on 13 May. Ellen Rowley was up this month and was fantastic as ever

Thank you to all who came to the screening of Making Dust at the ODEON cinema this weekend! It was a fascinating Q&A for Ellen Rowley and I with such important conversation. It's exciting to see how film can offer a space for discourse in this way.

The Caravan Stage is about to get a new life! Big shout out to Ellen Rowley @ucdcommunity @ucd_arch @ucdengarch @chadwicks_ie & tracey henkels Fionnuala Halpin 👏😍🎉

The website for our project PARISH (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage), a collaboration between Maynooth History and @NDIrishStudies is now live: parishproject.nd.edu. Database to follow!

Congratulations to our colleague, Dr Sarah Roddy on the launch of the website for the PARISH project (Preserving and Recording Ireland's Sacred Heritage) a collaboration between Maynooth History & @NDIrishStudies

📘🏆 Many congratulations to UCD Architecture Professor Finola O'Kane, on being shortlisted for the Royal Irish Academy Michel Déon Prize 2024 for non-fiction for her book Landscape Design & Revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815. 🔗 Full shortlist: ria.ie/2024/05/20/202…

Well done Dublin Inquirer for covering the scandalous delays in approval of funding for social house building by the Dept of Housing. dublininquirer.com/2024/07/17/to-… Approval times average 128 weeks - twice the target time - and these have lengthened in recent years. 1/3

If you could smell carbon …the air over Ballsbridge would be overpowering with the demolition of both Jury’s ( the 23 hr Coffee Dockbut a memory) ) and Carrisbrook House ( location of regular protests outside Israeli Embassy )

Job alert!📢 We are looking for our next Director of Cultural Heritage (Associate Librarian). As a key member of the Library Executive, you will have overall responsibility for our #CulturalHeritage units. See universityvacancies.com/university-col… for details & to apply by 21st Aug #LISjobsIE

Lr Mount Street 2024-perhaps one Dublin’s most unpleasant windswept lifeless streets, denigrated by developers in 70’s/80’s with bland office blocks, now mostly empty, and to add further insult is now lined with mesh fencing zig zagging along paths, up steps, down side streets…

We are so fortunate to have a screening of the doc ‘Making Dust’ by Ellen Rowley & Fiona Hallinan at IrishHumanities conference, supported by the Irish World Academy - lots of space at this, so will set up a booking link for those who just want to see film! departmentofultimology.com/making-dust