#HandsOnTrad - Last Saturday was a really special day at Fahy's Farm / Feirm Úi Fhathaigh in Galway City.
This was the first traditional building skills event to be held there, and hopefully this is just the beginning of nudging this beautiful vernacular farm complex awake.
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Family home of Nora Barnacle, who was married to James Joyce, recognised as Galway City's Building of the Month.

www.independent.ie/regionals/ga...

Happy Bloomsday! Galway City Building of the Month for June is Nora Barnacle's home house, No.8 Bowling Green (RPS.1301). Nora was married to James Joyce, who often visited this little house.

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Many thanks for all of the interest in the Traditional Building Skills Training Day at Fahy's Farm, Galway City.

Booking is now closed for this event.

@nbhsireland.bsky.social
#Conservation #GalwayCity

APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for the €200,000 2025 Shopfront Enhancement Scheme for eligible businesses in the Eyre Square, City Core, & Lwr Dominick Street Architectural Conservation Areas.
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DEADLINE: Friday 11 July 2025.

More info can be found here: www.GalwayCity.ie/Shopfront

Built Heritage Investment in Action / Reinstatement of historically accurate tri-partite timber sliding sash windows at No.18 William St, Galway City.

Works are grant assisted under the Built Heritage Investment Scheme by @nbhsireland.bsky.social & administered by @conservationgalway.bsky.social

#HandsOnTrad - Want to learn about traditional buildings & gain hands on training for their repair & maintenance? Then we have just the event for you!

@galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social with @nbhsireland.bsky.social, will host a FREE traditional building skills training day on 19 July 2025.

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Galway City Building of the Month for May is Swan House (RPS. 4201); sitting with a quiet heftiness on the corner of Flood Street & Spanish Parade for over 400 years, it is one of the best surviving late medieval houses in the city. 1/3

"How many more Palestinian lives will be wiped off from their homeland by bombardments, hunger or lack of medical care?

These are lives. These are human beings. They cannot just be reduced to numbers."

— UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini

Delighted to have received funding from @heritagecouncil.ie & have appointed consultants to undertake a Vernacular Heritage Survey of Baile an Dúlaigh.

The survey will be undertaken by Deirdre McDermott & Áine Doyle, who have a wide experience & understanding of recording vernacular heritage.

Not Galway 😎...
....but a great example of urban repair of a historic streetscape on Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin by Grafton Architects.

Cuir do chomhairliúchán SAOR IN AISCE in áirithe le hailtire RIAI Grád 2!

Tuilleadh eolais anseo 👇

www.galwaycity.ie/ga/nuacht/2025/clinic-caomhantais-chathair-na-gaillimhe

Book a FREE consultation with an RIAI Grade 2 architect!

@galwaycitycouncil.bsky.social & @nbhsireland.bsky.social are hosting a Conservation Clinic for owners & occupiers of buildings in Galway's Architectural Conservation Areas.

More info/book your FREE place: www.galwaycity.ie/news/2025/ga...

What's up these stairs?....only the finest view in #Galway City 😍

With a history stretching back over 700 years, St.Nicholas Collegiate Church is a treasure of the City.

#HiddenGalway #GalwayArchitecture #GalwayHeritage @nbhsireland.bsky.social @nationalmons.bsky.social @galwaytourism.bsky.social