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New programme aims to increase Derry heritage visitor numbers and spend

Derry City and Strabane District Council have launched a new support programme to help local heritage venues to continue to develop their offering as they recover from the impact of the Covid pandemic. The Heritage Venue Animation Programme is being ...

09 Oct 2022 at 18:13

Local News

Council unveils new heritage plan for Derry and Strabane

A new strategy aimed at celebrating and promoting the City and District's unique built heritage was launched this week by the Chair of Derry City and Strabane District Council's Environment and Regeneration Committee, Alderman Keith Kerrigan, at a ...

26 Sept 2022 at 10:57

National News

New World Heritage Tentative List for Ireland announced

The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Darragh O’Brien and Minister of State with Responsibility for Heritage and Electoral Reform, Malcolm Noonan have announced a new World Heritage Tentative List for Ireland. The Tentative ...

21 Jul 2022 at 10:14

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Heritage group calls on bank to 'donate' historic County Derry building

A County Derry heritage group have made a bold pitch for a soon to be vacant bank building adjacent to their current base. Maghera Historical Society (MHS), based on the town's Main Street, have called on Ulster Bank to 'donate' the bank ...

31 Aug 2022 at 09:00

Local News

Culmore History Group hosting a historical open day

Have you ever looked out the window and wondered how much you know about your surroundings? What about the history of where you live or what the area and townlands would have been like in years gone by? On Saturday, 21st January, ...

13 Jan 2023 at 10:25

Northern Ireland

Christmas gift for the nation as Peruzzi’s The Nativity saved from export

A painting of the Nativity dating to the early 1500s has been saved from leaving the UK after it was acquired by National Museums NI. The work, painted around 1515 in Rome by the Italian artist Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, will ...

24 Dec 2022 at 00:01

Famous steam engine makes return journey from Derry back to Donegal

Local News

Famous steam engine begins journey back to Donegal

One of Donegal’s original steam engines made its journey back to the county more than 60 years after it went out of service. Drumboe left Whitehead in Co Antrim, where it has been restored, early on Saturday on its way to the ...

10 Oct 2021 at 19:38

New book to examine the long lost days of Derry and Donegal's Lough Swilly train

Derry News

New book to examine the long lost days of Donegal's Lough Swilly train

A new book is to be launched next week, which sets to examine the iconic Lough Swilly train. The new book, titled: "The Lough Swilly Remembered" is written By Jim McBride. Jim has been involved with railway heritage and ...

13 Nov 2021 at 21:07

Local News

Invitation to Colmcille 1500 finale

A souvenir booklet marking the year-long Colmcille 1500 celebrations is being launched by Dr Brian Lacey, historian and Colmcille expert. Colmcille 1500 was a programme commemorating 1500 years since the birth of the ...

20 Jun 2022 at 12:48

Northern Ireland

Heritage sites to be preserved with millions in National Lottery funding

28 Mar 2023 at 14:14

Northern Ireland

Seven sites receive Government backing to gain Unesco World Heritage status

Seven sites have received Government backing to win Unesco World Heritage status, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has announced. York city centre, Birkenhead Park and an Iron Age settlement in ...

10 Apr 2023 at 11:59

Northern Ireland

Skeletal remains dating back 1,000 years found on site of planned Dublin hotel

Burial sites dating back more than one thousand years have been discovered during excavations for a new hotel in Dublin city centre. Around 100 skeletal remains from the Middle Ages were found in an area around ...

08 Jul 2023 at 15:08

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