‘Heritage on the Edge’ platform went live on Google Arts & Culture. It is an ambitious experiment in climate change and heritage communication. The results are breath-taking. ICOMOS President Toshiyuki Kono writes: ‘Above all, the project is a call to action. The effects of climate change on our cultural heritage mirror wider impacts [...]
Where townscapes meet seascapes, ports are a significant feature of our nineteenth-century urban inheritance. The topographical, environmental and cartographical impact of ‘the port’ is well represented in the Irish Historic Towns Atlas series, as exemplified by the published fascicles for Dublin, Belfast, Derry, Drogheda, Dundalk, Galway, Limerick, Sligo and Youghal; Cork, Dungarvan and New [...]
Erin McGuire of the Dublin Inquirer visits Dublin Port and talks with Niall Brady of ADCO and Lar Joye of Dublin Port on recent capital dredging operations within the Port's navigation channel To read Erin's article in the Dublin Inquirer Click Here
A lecture by Dr Niall Brady (Archaeological Diving Company) organised by Trinity Centre for Environmental History in association with the School of History and Humanities.
Niall Brady will present a lecture entitled ‘The working river, a harmonious relationship between City and Port’ on 14 November in Dublin Port Centre from 1pm to 1:45pm, as part of the November Lecture Series prepared by the National Museum of Ireland and Dublin Port Company. The presentation highlights the work being done within [...]
Niall Brady will present a lecture entitled ‘Multibeam guided wreck diving investigations for Dublin Port Company’s Alexandra Basin Redevelopment project’ at the annual INFOMAR Seminar, 8-9 November in Kinsale. For details of the seminar that is free admission. See: https://www.infomar.ie/node/711 Or Click on the PDF right to download schedule ADCO is proud to sponsor [...]
As part of a summer school on Irish culture, a party of 18 students and their two faculty guides (Jimmy Schryver and Julie Erkerle) visited Dublin Port to meet with Lar Joye and Jim Kelleher of the Port’s Heritage and Communications office, and to see the archaeological discoveries being made as part [...]
A look back at Foothill College’s Ireland Program Summer 2017 and the welcoming community of Ballintober in County Roscommon Click Here to find out more about Castles in Communities
The RURALIA XII conference will take place in Kilkenny, 11-15 September, and we wish to advise you of the details in the event that you will find it of interest. RURALIA is an international association of scholars who are committed to studying the development of the medieval and early modern countryside across Europe. The association [...]
ADCO is delighted to see one of its finds, known as the ‘Monk’s stone’, from the underwater excavations at John’s Bridge, now on display in Kilkenny’s new Medieval Mile Museum. The excavation was commissioned as part of the OPW and Kilkenny Corporation’s River Nore Flood Alleviation Scheme, and was undertaken between 2000 and 2002. The [...]
