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Still battling to save Ireland

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2000 / June 25 2000: Still battling to save Ireland

This week, Ireland's principal and oldest architectural conservation body, the Irish Georgian Society, takes part in an exhibition hosted by the American Ireland Fund in the O'Reilly Institute at the Belfield campus of UCD. Since its foundation (or rebirth it existed in the early 1900s also) in 1958, the society has fought to preserve the best of Ireland's Georgian or 18th century heritage, often with great success but always by keeping the issue firmly in the public eye. The first 25 years, heroically led by Desmond Guinness and his late wife Mariga, saw the society embroiled in all of the major battles to save houses in places such as Mountjoy Square and St Stephen's Green in Dublin as well as some in locations like Limerick and Roscrea.

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