Conserving your Dublin Period House 2025

The Irish Georgian Society and Dublin City Council have assembled a team of conservation experts to present a series of thirteen talks on the history and significance of Dublin’s period houses and practical advice on their conservation.

Individual talks will address the history and conservation of: windows; ironwork; bricks; lime; and decorative plasterwork; as well as themed conservation talks informing on: conservation policy and legislation; sensitively extending historic buildings; implementing appropriate energy efficiency retrofitting; and disaster management and insurance.

Attendance at the talks will greatly benefit owners of all periods and types of houses, from the modest Edwardian artisan dwelling to the substantial red-bricks of the Victorian suburbs and the fine townhouses of our Georgian city squares, providing an ‘A to Z’ for their care and conservation. The talks will be of particular interest to owners of houses listed as Protected Structures or located within Architectural Conservation Areas.

These talks will also benefit building professionals and practitioners and are approved for CPD by the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, Engineers Ireland, the Irish Planning Institute, Construction Industry Federation and the Register of Heritage Contractors.