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- Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 26, 2012 Muckross House, Gardens Traditional Farms: What is it? It is arguably the most popular tourist attraction in Co Kerry. - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 19, 2012Hunt Museum - A history of Ireland in 100 objects
Sat, May 19, 2012In 1950, in the course of rebuilding works on an old house in Summerhill in Co Meath, this remarkable stone was found behind a blocked doorway. It had been in a window recess of a secret sealed-up chamber. It is a rough piece of sandstone. - King William's gauntlets, circa 1690
Sat, May 12, 2012 A history of Ireland in 100 objects : On the morning of July 14th, 1690, King William III presented these fine doeskin gloves to John Dillon, in whose home in Lismullin, Co Meath, he had stayed the previous night. The king had reason to be in a buoyant mood: he had won a major victory over his rival King James II at the nearby River Boyne two days previously. - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 12, 2012 LOUGH BOORA PARKLANDS What is it? Lough Boora Parklands is 2,000 hectares of cutaway bogland in Co Offaly. Set up as a pilot project for a larger scheme to create interest in bogland areas that are no longer used for commercial production, it has natural and man-made lakes, wetlands, woodland, pasture, walkways, cycle paths and outdoor sculptures. - Books of Survey and Distribution, mid 17th century
Sat, May 5, 2012 A history of Ireland in 100 objects: There are very few plainer objects in this series, but none that is more consequential. The so-called Books of Survey and Distribution, compiled between the 1650s and 1680s, record in microcosm the seismic shift in the ownership of land in Ireland after the Cromwellian conquest. The class of Catholic proprietors, of both indigenous and Anglo-Norman descent, was all but swept away. - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, May 5, 2012 COLLINS BARRACKS: What is it? The National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts History, at Collins Barracks in Dublin, is the largest of the museum’s four sites, three of which are in Dublin and the other of which is in Turlough Park, in Co Mayo. The museum converted the early neoclassical building, designed by Col Thomas Burgh as a military barracks, in 1997. - A history of Ireland in 100 objects
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Fleetwood Cabinet, circa 1652 - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, Apr 28, 2012Swiss Cottage - What's Ireland's problem with water charges?
Sat, Apr 21, 2012 The Politics of Water: Ireland is the only OECD country whose citizens do not pay directly for water use. In the first of a new series on water charges, Political Correspondent HARRY McGEE visits some of the hundreds of group water schemes operating across Ireland, to discover why people are content to stump up for these but still baulk at paying water charges to the State - A history of Ireland in 100 objects O'Queally Chalice, 1640
Sat, Apr 21, 2012This superb silver chalice declares its origins very clearly. Engraved on the base in Latin is “Malachy O’Queally Doctor of Sacred Theology from Paris and Archbishop of Tuam had this chalice made for the convent of friars minor of Rosserrilly [Co Galway], 1640.” O’Queally, with his continental connections, was representative of the key role of the Franciscans in re-creating an Irish Catholic identity after the Flight of the Earls. Driven by the scholar and historian Luke Wadding, the order established the Irish colleges at Louvain and Rome and re-established their own houses in Ireland. - Heritage hot spots History, nature, art, environment
Sat, Apr 21, 2012 PORTUMNA CASTLE What is it? Portumna Castle, in Co Galway, is a semifortified Jacobean house – known as a strong house – on the northern shore of Lough Derg, on the River Shannon.
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