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News, Opportunities | 30 July 2026
Celebrate National Heritage Week
This August, as part of National Heritage Week, we invite you to discover more about your own history and the history of the city.
A common thread through all of our programmes is story. Everyone has a story or a history, of who and where they are from. When we share or discover more about our own personal and collective stories, they help us to form and deepen our connections to each other and the places we live.
At the Culture Company we offer a wide range of history and heritage programmes and activities, all designed around stories. Whether that is story telling, story listening, story gathering, or story sharing - each activity is an invitation to people to discover more about their own histories or the history of the city.
We engage people with history in many different ways. These include guided tours at 14 Henrietta Street; history workshops for children; evening talks on local heritage through our Culture Connects programme at Richmond Barracks; and the annual Dublin Festival of History, which presents more than 300 events over three weeks each September and October.
People can also share their memories through oral history projects such as Your Tenement Memories, visit the city’s museums and archives with our Culture Club programme, explore our children’s Hidden Histories trail, or delve deeper into a subject with one of Dublin’s Historians in Residence.
The Culture Company offers a wide range of history and heritage programmes and activities across the city year round, but here we have picked out some highlights to mark Heritage Week, taking place from 15 to 23 August. National Heritage Week celebrates all things heritage and is run by the Heritage Council.
On Wednesday 19 August join historian Dr Declan Brady for a workshop about different sources for doing your own local history research, such as maps, photographs, sound and film archives, music and song, and online sources. This free workshop takes place at 6.30 pm in Richmond Barracks, Dublin 8.
Join our expert tour guides for a guided tour of Goldenbridge Cemetery, a hidden corner of history in Inchicore, Dublin 8.
Hear stories of secret watchmen, underground vaults and body snatchers in the unspoilt grounds of Goldenbridge Cemetery, Ireland’s first garden cemetery.
This tour takes place on Saturday 15 and 22 August at 12 noon and takes 75 minutes.
Join us for Inchicore to Kilmainham: from court-martial to exectution, a walking tour which traces the final steps of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising as they made their way from Richmond Barracks to their execution at Kilmainham Gaol.
This walking tour takes place on Saturday 15 and 22 August at 2 pm and takes 75 minutes.
If you’re looking for a free outdoor activity to do with your children you can enjoy our Hidden Histories Hunt - a self-guided 3km route through Dublin city centre, including Dublin 1, Dublin 2 and Dublin 8, where children get to know about the city's buildings, bridges, history and little-known facts. Made as part of our Historian in Residence programme, this free activity combines learning with fun, making it interactive and engaging.
At 14 Henrietta Street, our award-winning social history museum of Dublin life, we are celebrating our win at this year’s European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Award with a special event as part of Heritage Week. We will be delighted to host representatives from Europa Nostra and the European Commission for the formal presentation of our award, which recognises the museum’s people-first approach.
We are currently finalising the programme for this year's Dublin Festival of History. The Festival will run from 26 September to 11 October 2026.
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Historian in Residence Caitlin White is working with Dublin City Council’s Community Development Team in Finglas to support the newly launched Finglas Digital Heritage Trail. Caitlin will give a talk on local history and sources as part of an event at St Canice's Abbey during Heritage Week.
Meanwhile in the Coolock area, Historian in Residence Elizabeth Kehoe has been collecting people’s memories and old photos to create a Coolock Heritage Wall which will be unveiled in Coolock library during Heritage Week.
Other Historian in Residence events taking place during Heritage Week include a talk from historian James Curry at Central Library about Jerome O'Leary, the youngest victim of Bloody Sunday. This talk takes place on Monday 15 August at 11.30 am and booking is required.
The Phibsborough Library History Book Club will be reading “The Fall of Dublin” by Liz Gillis, on Wednesday 19 August at 6.30 pm, while the Cabra Library History Book Club will be reading “Between Two Rivers” by Moudhy al-Rashid, Thursday 20 August at 1 pm. New members and drop-ins are welcome.