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Funding of €240k awarded to safeguard World Heritage throughout the country
Posted on 18 August 2025
Pilot World Heritage Strategic Investment Fund to invest €240,000 to conserve, maintain, protect and promote World Heritage in Ireland
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne TD, and Minister of State for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan TD, have today announced that three World Heritage Tentative List sites and one World Heritage Property
Ireland officially joins the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe
Posted on 6 August 2025
Cultural Route membership reflects strong progress in protecting and conserving heritage outlined in latest strategic update report
Ireland has strengthened its heritage engagement with Europe by formally joining the Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe. This marks the start of a formal active role for Ireland within this important European network, which connects culture and heritage
Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2025-2035 aims to increase the number of World Heritage Properties in Ireland
Posted on 10 July 2025
New World Heritage Strategy outlines ambition to increase the number of World Heritage Properties in Ireland, supporting tourism and economic growth
Decision to proceed to ratify the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage also announced
Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage James Browne TD, will launch the Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland
New €300,000 pilot funding scheme launched to safeguard World Heritage
Posted on 26 June 2025
A pilot World Heritage Strategic Investment Fund with a total value of €300,000 is now open for applications. The funding provides capital investment for World Heritage and is available through relevant local authorities for the conservation, maintenance, protection and promotion of archaeological and built heritage within World Heritage Properties and Tentative List Sites in Ireland.
The
Ministers Announce New Addition to Ireland’s UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List: Historic Astronomical Observatories of Ireland
Posted on 18 April 2025
World Heritage Day marked with important development for Ireland
The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, James Browne, TD, Minister of State with Responsibility for Nature, Heritage and Biodiversity, Christopher O’Sullivan, TD, and Minister of State with responsibility for the Office of Public Works, Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran, TD, today announced that the Historic Astronomical
New Scholarships to offer increased support for UNESCO World Heritage
Posted on 2 July 2024
Ireland is strengthening engagement, education, and capacity-building for World Heritage through two new scholarship programmes established by the National Monuments Service (NMS) in collaboration with University College Dublin (UCD) and the Rome-based advisory body ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property).
Over the next three
Facilitator appointed to lead newly established Brú na Bóinne Community Heritage Forum
Posted on 18 April 2024
To mark World heritage Day 2024 the National Monuments Service is announcing the establishment of a Brú na Bóinne Community Heritage Forum with the appointment of Ms Mona O’Rourke as lead facilitator for the project. The forum will enable the community to be more involved in making decisions about the management, presentation, interpretation and conservation of the site and will help them
Public asked to contribute to Ireland’s debut World Heritage Strategy
Posted on 11 March 2024
A public consultation has been launched today inviting members of the public and interested stakeholders to participate in the development of the first World Heritage Strategy for Ireland.
A ‘Strategy for World Heritage in Ireland 2024-2034’ will set out a vision for World Heritage in Ireland with an aim to ensure that it is developed and managed in line with the requirements of the 1972
National Monuments Service Engagement with UNESCO on Global Heritage Matters
Posted on 7 March 2024
National Monuments Service was pleased to recently accompany Minister of State with responsibility for Nature, Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan TD to UNESCO HQ for a series of meetings and engagements around Ireland’s commitment to support UNESCO’s important World Heritage activities.
Alongside Ireland’s Permanent Representative to UNESCO, meetings were held with the Director
The World Heritage Education Programme - Patrimonito International Storyboard Competition 2022 - Call for Submissions
Posted on 29 August 2022
UNESCO’s World Heritage Education Programme have announced the Patrimonito International Storyboard Competition 2022. This scheme dates back to 2002 when the World Heritage Education Programme launched the cartoon series ‘Patrimonito’s World Heritage Adventures’. The cartoon aims to raise the awareness of the importance of heritage preservation among the youth, through a “by young