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Join us on 16th January for a CPD on A Living Tradition: A Strategy to Enhance the Understanding, Minding and Handing on of Our Built Vernacular Heritage.
This CPD will provide information on the recently published strategy for vernacular heritage. This strategy seeks to address the continuing loss of buildings, features, and settings, and the erosion of building traditions and skills. It encourages the continuing use of vernacular buildings, settlements, and landscapes as viable, attractive, and distinctive places in which to live and work. This CPD will be presented by Barry O’Reilly of the Department of Housing, one of the key contributors to the strategy.
Barry O’Reilly is responsible for A Living Tradition, the State’s strategy for our built vernacular heritage. His background is in archaeology and folklore/folklife. He has lectured widely on the built vernacular heritage throughout Ireland and abroad, to local groups, academic gatherings and on third-level courses. His MA thesis (UCD) was a study of vernacular architecture in Fingal and his PhD (Oxford Brookes University) explored the vernacular hamlets of various parts of Ireland. He wrote Living under Thatch and co-wrote Ballyknockan: a Wicklow stonecutters’ village and has authored numerous articles for journals. He is editor for Europe of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World (Bloomsbury, forthcoming). He works as an architectural conservation advisor with the National Built Heritage Service. He has a particular interest in vernacular settlements/hamlets and the vernacular (or traditional) landscape.
