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. Since the Heritage Council assumed responsibility for National Heritage Week in 2005, it has grown from a small 500 event to almost 2,000 events in 2023. The Heritage Council assumed the role of coordinator of National Heritage Week from the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government. Since then t

The Department of Music at Trinity College Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and the Trinity Long Room Hub are delighted to announce the international conference and collaborative symposium, “The Expansive Canvas: Large-Scale Form in the Music of 19th-Century Women Composers” which will take place in Dublin, Ireland on 26–28 August 2025. The Expansive Canvas is a three-day international conference and celebration of music by women composers in the long nineteenth century. While the symposium will unfold in lecture halls, recital rooms, and digital spaces, we also want to exten

Gather round everyone, Dublin Maker is back for 2025 and the Open Call for Makers is now officially open! Whether you are a maker enthusiast, a DIY devotee, a creative crafter, a gadgeteer, a hobbyist, an inventor, a builder, a modder or a hacker, we want to see what you have been up to this past year! The creative festival of show and tell that is Dublin Maker is set to return this summer to our new exciting venue – Leopardstown Racecourse. With your help, we will be transforming Leopardstown Racecourse into a spectacular family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcef