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The vision of the Irish Georgian Society is to conserve, protect and foster an interest and a respect for Ireland’s architectural heritage and decorative arts.

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Recruitment: Development Officer
The Irish Georgian Foundation, operating as the Irish Georgian Society, wishes to recruit a Development Officer to devise and implement a development/fundraising strategy for the organisation.

Conservation Awards 2014
The Irish Georgian Society invites applications for its Architectural and Original Drawing Awards 2014 from Irish architects or architectural practices, building surveyors, engineers and other professionals involved in the conservation of historic buildings in Ireland.

New Irish Georgian Society Conservation Grants Scheme
The Irish Georgian Society, through the support of its London Chapter, has launched a new Conservation Grants Scheme to provide financial assistance for works to structures of significant architectural merit.

City Assembly House - a history
Built by the Society of Artists in the 1760s and '70s, the City Assembly House has since served as Dublin's City Hall, as the founding home of the Conservatory of Music, and as a museum. Today it is being restored as the new home of the Irish Georgian Society

Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies
The Irish Georgian Society supports and promotes scholarly research in the field of architecture and the decorative arts through its annual journal, 'Irish Architectural & Decorative Studies'

Restoring the City Assembly House
Restored thanks to the generous fundraising and donations of IGS members.

Traditional Building Skills Register
The TBS Register contains craftspeople and professionals with good conservation expertise and who are essential for those working on traditionally built buildings

Belline rustic temple lodge, Piltown, Co. Kilkenny
Collapse of 'At Risk' protected structure of national importance

Robert Adam’s ‘Eating Parlor’, Headfort, Co. Meath
The sole surviving Robert Adam interior in Ireland, restored to mark the 50th anniversary of the IGS

Our Updates

11.04.2014

Knights of St. Patrick and Casimir Markievicz, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street

The fascinating lecture examining the Knights of St. Patrick is being given by Dr John Maiben Gilmartin, a veteran conservation campaigner with Mariga and Desmond Guinness, deputy keeper of the...

10.04.2014

Cocktails and a private viewing of Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown, Part II

Thursday 1 May, 2014
6pm–8pm.

Audubon’s Aviary: Parts Unknown, Part II showcases masterpieces from the New- York Historical Society collection of John James Audubon’s watercolors done for the print...

03.04.2014

Recruitment: Development Officer

The Irish Georgian Foundation, operating as the Irish Georgian Society, wishes to recruit a Development Officer to devise and implement a development/fundraising strategy for the organisation.

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02.04.2014

Conservation Awards 2014

Clockwise from top left: St. Malachy’s Church, Belfast (winner 2010), Fergal McCabe’s Dublin Castle (winner 2010), Mark Costello’s ‘Dublin’s Parlour and the Point Depot’ (Highly Commended 2011),...

01.04.2014

Twin Cathedrals of Waterford Chapter: Visit to Wexford

The Waterford Chapter of the Irish Georgian Society have organised a tour Wexford on Saturday, 7th June 2014.

The itinerary is as follows:

11.00 a.m- Registration at St Iberius Church, Main St.,...

24.03.2014

Cork Chapter: Vernon Mount Lecture Series

Grange Frankfield Partnership, in association with Douglas Library, is pleased to announce details of the next lecture in the

Vernon Mount Lecture Series

Art in Cork’s Big Houses – Vernon Mount...

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