Peter Harbison recalls the ambitions of a short-lived 18th-century society whose aim was the preservation and recording of Ireland’s ancient past
European interest in antiquity really started in the Renaissance period with the focus there on excavating the remains of ancient Rome. In his Britannia of 1586, William Camden first sparked off examination of England’s past, but it was not until the 18th century that this developed into extensive recording of local architecture of earlier generations in the form of engravings, of the kind practised by Francis Grose.¹
John McLaughlin assesses heneghan peng’s dramatically sited but elegantly unobtrusive visitor centre for the Giant’s Causeway in Antrim
Peter Pearson makes a plea for re-roofing Kilmacurragh, the Queen Anne house set in an arcadian parkland in County Wicklow
Peter Murray finds similarities between the fictional character Kim and 19th-century photographer John Burke, whose path in Afghanistan, has been retraced by Simon Norfolk