Congratulations to the Best of the Best -an accolade given to fewer than 1% of TripAdvisor’s 8 million listings. I worked on exhibitions for 3 of the top 10 sites in #Ireland - Kilmainham Gaol, Spike Island & Nano Nalge Place lnkd.in/ed-Es8qQ #museums #history #research

BEST OF THE BEST!

Nano Nagle Place awarded Tripadvisor 2023 Travellers' Choice Best of the Best in Ireland!

This award ranks us as 6 of the Top 10 Things to Do in Ireland! Huge thanks to our dedicated team who provide the warmest welcome in #PureCork

nanonagleplace.ie/nano-nagle-pla…

This #EuropeDay2023 Ports, Past & Present marks the way #EUIrelandWales funding is making a difference to people, businesses & communities by celebrating the Irish Sea Ports Network & the vibrant business people & volunteers that make the ports great places to live in & visit!

What a treat it is to read Jon Gower ‘The Turning Tide’, not only for his own lilting & mesmeric prose but for his artful borrowings. As Gower says, Tim Dee’s description of Gannets preparing to dive as ‘the rapid origami of themselves’ is a phrase worth repeating!

Retrofitting historic buildings is vital but also requires a specialist skill set (as below Guardian article describes)

And blunt instrument of Irish BER rating system needs revision - it can’t be the tool to measure energy efficiency in old buildings.
theguardian.com/business/2023/…

Lights? Check! Colour? check!
Lord Charlemont? Check!

The Casino, check-in
coming very soon!
Check!

Skeuomorphic sash horn

I’ve just answered a second fire extinguisher question on University Challenge ☝️health & safety = general knowledge!

Some light reading of a Saturday … #IrelandReads

Sash horn, Timoleague

Does anyone have a recommendation of off the shelf/open source online exhibition software (not OMEKA, even though I love it)? Ideally mobile first & with good integration for podcasts etc. Any suggestions gratefully received Irish Museums Association (IMA) Museums Computer Group

It was lovely to end my last lecture of the year for UCCArtHist with a discussion of the beautiful Quad, Pugin, Ruskin, Benjamin Woodward & the mighty ‘Nature of Gothic’. Thanks to all the students who let me know how much they are enjoying looking up & appreciating architecture

I really hope we send John Lydon to the Eurovision. What a beautiful message about diaspora, love and Alzheimer's disease. Who cares about what a ‘Eurovision Song’ is? #LateLateShow

The #HistoricQuays at Grand Parade

Cork was and still could be a very special place if we decided as a city to look after our heritage and care for the city as a place, making it a destination as well as liveable city

#LOVEtheLEE not the WALLs

Colourisation: Conor Ryan

It’s Christmas Eve, I’m peeling sprouts and boiling the ham and there are two turtle doves in the garden! Thanks to Shane Clarke for buying me the book ‘Wilding’ so I could identify the turtle doves as something so special 🕊️

Rosie is a descendant of the Staffords of Baldwinstown House that just appeared on #sellingirelandsdreamhomes The Stafford sisters are pictured in the garden of the house here. The pin, now Rosie’s, was given to Maureen Stafford by the Queen for acting as her midwife Emma Gilleece

We are still so honoured by this achievement; thank you to the Council of Europe for recognising the great work that happens in Nano Nagle Place

Read more about the prize here: nanonagleplace.ie/nano-nagle-pla…