The Irish Times

Conservation has become, if not quite a dangerous word, certainly a volatile one. Not merely because we still don't really know exactly what it Our emerging awareness of our long neglected heritage, especially in its architectural context, might well be a case of too little too late, but measures now being taken across the island of Ireland in preserving significant representative architecture of many styles, including the often overlooked vernacular, suggests we now realise there is considerably more to our architectural heritage than the glorious though battered legacy of Georgian Dublin.