As part of National Heritage Week, Doneraile Development Association will on Sunday (August 25) run a guided tour from 2.30pm-4.30pm through the historic garden spaces of Doneraile Park, Co Cork

Esther N McCarthy has her eye (and ear) on party speakers for your BBQ, spots a rug that’s out of this world, and revels in all that’s on offer for Heritage Week and Cork Craft Month.

Heritage Week is taking place in Fota Arboretum & Gardens.

Heritage Week organisers have come under fire by including tours of the headquarters of the Church of Scientology in Dublin to its events listing.

Migrants and asylum seekers from as far away as Sri Lanka, South Africa and Pakistan are ‘connecting’ with Ireland through the iconic currach.

Island communities may be able to provide one answer to Ireland’s lengthy housing lists — they’re investigating ways of helping “wannabe” islanders to create new lives offshore.

Well, of course, we did have bears, but not on Bere Island. The island is named after the peninsula and is derived from the Spanish princess Bera who was married to the first king of Munster, Eogan More.

Manchán Magan is in the midst of a new radio series that taps into the weird and wonderful aspects of Ireland’s natural heritage, writes Jonathan deBurca Butler.

ONE of the many ironies of Irish life is that most people — 97%, according to an EU Commission survey — agree we have a responsibility to protect nature. 

The Camino of St James has been the walking tourism phenomenon of the 21st

Heritage campaigners have called for action following the theft of information signs about one of the most important battlefield sites in Irish history.

Pharmacies, fashion providers, children’s toy makers, bakers, pubs and photographers have wiped the dust off artefacts from a bygone era to showcase the rich retail heritage of a west Waterford town.

Music festivals, sailing races, arts displays, and a poetry marathon are some of the events to be enjoyed this August bank holiday weekend.

It's quite the view.

St Patrick’s Cathedral is one of Ireland’s most popular and iconic tourist attractions - but none of its many visitors have seen it quite like this

A pioneering music out-reach project is expanding into a free family festival on the banks of the River Lee.

IF the neighbours weren’t used to it, they’d demand the destruction of my house. It is one of the ugliest buildings in the neighbourhood. In fact, it wins the prize for being ugly, leaky, and disfunctional.

The arrival of large numbers of minke whales along Irish inshore waters seems like a good omen for all-Island whale watch day tomorrow.

St Mary’s Church of Ireland on Jacknell Street, Dungarvan Co Waterford is the setting for a pop-up, vintage tea rooms as part of a fund-raising, afternoon event for the charity, ‘To Russia with Love’. 

The man who triggered the Dublin Lockout should be judged on all of his achievements and not just on his role in Ireland’s greatest industrial conflict, his descendants have said.

A voluntary group driving efforts to save one of the country’s finest Georgian villas has made a public appeal to its wealthy US- based owner to live up to his responsibilities and help them with the ambitious project.

MANY people will be taking to the outdoors over the next seven days during National Heritage Week for which no less than 1,700 events have been organised.

A development group is hoping to get €4m funding to do up three unique gardens at a stately home in North Cork.

I HAD 14 men in my bedroom this weekend. Separately, for the most part, although two brothers visited on Saturday at the same time.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of perhaps the most significant event in Irish Labour Relations history.

HERITAGE WEEK begins today and every media outlet — radio, television and newspapers — is busy highlighting the importance of our cultural and environmental heritage and the nationwide programme of activities being provided to enable all of us to appreciate and enjoy that heritage.

WHETHER it is nature and wildlife, medieval re-enactments or displays of ancient weaponry, National Heritage Week has all you can ask for.

Heritage is as much about where we’re going as where we’ve come from. So why not spend Heritage Week getting in touch with our past – and having fun in the process?

FROM the birds and the bees and everything in between, children of all ages are being invited to indulge in their wild side and get back to nature as part of National Heritage Week.

FROM whale-watching to historical re-enactments and from nighttime bat walks to lectures in stately homes, an impressive 1,000 events will take place across the country for Heritage Week, which will see a large number of historic buildings throw open their doors to the public, many for the first time.

National Heritage Week begins today, with a variety of celebrations around the country.

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney will head up a celebration of Tara at the controversial site of the M3 motorway, organisers said today.

THE current Heritage Week advertisement invites us to “look forward, look back and look around”.

Heritage Week begins today, with more than 1,000 cultural events being held all around the country.

More than 1,000 cultural events have been planned to celebrate this year’s Heritage Week, it was revealed today.

THERE were smiling faces all round yesterday as delighted collectors of coins, photographs and other priceless memorabilia left Waterford City Archives.

History will be brought back to life today when Ireland’s bronze age is celebrated with a re-enactment at a historic site.

HOMEOWNERS planning a major clear out now have a unique opportunity to see if any of those old photographs, books, ornaments and other objects lying around their house or sitting on their mantelpieces for years are worth more than their sentimental value.

TIME doesn’t stand still and Waterford city’s evolution as a thriving business hub is about to be mapped through an exhibition of works from one of Waterford’s best-known photographers.

THE build-up to a nationwide celebration of Ireland’s cultural and natural history began yesterday with the launch of a website containing details of more than 500 events taking place during Heritage Week.

Ireland's annual Heritage Week is now officially underway.