📣 Traditional Farm Buildings define our landscape, we have a chance to protect them. Please RT RTÉ Nationwide CountryWide Department of Housing, Local Government & Heritage Malcolm Noonan T.D. Department of Rural and Community Development Dept of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

🗓️ The cutting of hedgerows and burning of land is prohibited from today, March 1st, under the Wildlife Act. National Parks and Wildlife Service are stepping up monitoring and patrolling, and we will pursue prosecutions for anyone found to be in breach of wildlife legislation. 👇🪺

We were delighted to welcome Council of National Cultural Institutions (CNCI) members, as well as Feargal Ó Coigligh, Secretary General Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media, and Smithsonian Lonnie G. Bunch III Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III, to the National Library of Ireland today.

Take a minute to enjoy this stunning drone footage of basking sharks swimming metres away from the shore in County Mayo. The footage of these harmless giants was captured by Shane Clarke near the village of Kilcummin last weekend.

A full house & a brilliant start to the #TailteannGames100 seminar National Museum of Ireland this morning with Paul Rouse opening talk on history & myths of the Games & Louise Ryan now speaking compellingly on the iconography of the Games

Work has commenced on an ambitious re-development of National Archives, Ireland with over €37m in investment; future-proofing records of the State over the coming decades in a purpose-built, modern archive repository. 🏛️ Details: gov.ie/en/press-relea… #Culture #Archives

Delighted to see this news today for all our colleagues National Archives, Ireland, a really important investment #Culture Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media

Great news for all and so brilliant to see all these projects progressing with announcements this week Crawford Art Gallery National Archives, Ireland Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media Catherine Martin TD Office of Public Works

📻 ICYMI Listen back to Brian O'Connell’s segment on our upcoming exhibitions and preparations for redevelopment, featuring our Director mary mccarthy and conservator Chiara Chillè, here: rte.ie/radio/radio1/t… Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media Office of Public Works Grafton Architects Cork City Council

National Museum of Ireland - Natural History aka the Dead Zoo will close to facilitate extensive works required to protect and conserve the 168-year-old ‘Dead Zoo’ for future generations #DeadZooDiary museum.ie/en-IE/News/Nat…

Big day for the ‘Dead Zoo’ …many a school tour visited there ..,! Wonder how many packs of old crisp bags will they find stashed behind the radiators?? …’Natural History Museum to close for major refurbishment via @RTENews rte.ie/news/2024/0614…

Really important milestone today with the appointment of architects to lead the design and investigative works phase of the project with support of Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media and Office of Public Works Our Ground floor will remain open until Sept for visitors to come to Dublin's Dead Zoo National Museum of Ireland

There I am chatting about this incredible project ahead for Dublin's Dead Zoo National Museum of Ireland we’ve a great team in place through expertise of FKP Architecture Office of Public Works and support of Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media through NDP.

Expressions of interest are now invited from applicants who believe that they possess the skills and experience necessary to fill the role of Chair of the Board of the Abbey Theatre as the term for current Chair finishes at end of July Tourism-Culture-Arts-Gaeltacht-Sport-Media gov.ie/en/publication…

So much to say about Cian O'Brien's time Project Arts Centre Brilliant leader, supporter, collaborator, advocate, producer, curator, strategist & much more. But most of all he was always there when he was needed, to roll up his sleeves, to support & place artists at centre of society 💪

Delighted to support the Traveller Copper Art / Minceiri Šarog Granlum Suwni'ed at Collins Barracks today - Art, Craft & Belonging - an utter heart warm to see a Barrel top, with the last two working traditional tinsmiths, at National Museum of Ireland 🥰

(Kf) To all the Swifties Taylor Swift this weekend from all the BirdWatch Ireland Swifties working hard to conserve this cool but endangered bird in Ireland. Both fly high, both break records. Taylor Swift get in touch BirdWatch Ireland if you want to know more!

CONGRATULATIONS JUDITH! Today marks 30 yrs of being Curator We are so proud of her work from dealing with Dry Rot & building our extension, the hard work with blood, sweat and tears required to become one of the pioneering first museums in Ireland to be awarded accreditation!1/2

Playwrights - great opportunity with great people.

What an utterly-utterly wonderful way to end The Heritage Council National Heritage Week - with an exploration and discussion on the photographic archive of the Parish of the Travelling People, at UCD with community members, allies and agents of positive change 🥰