Valerie Mulvin will give the keynote address at the Old Town, New Place conference at the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny on Monday 4th March 2024.

This National Built Heritage Service event is to raise awareness of the cultural significance of Irish towns and to support the development of specialist skills within Local Authorities and practitioners dealing with built heritage character. It will provide recommendations on research approaches, practice and community engagement to support future programmes of work and successful funding drawdown, but most of all the great repair and reuse of traditional buildings and townscapes.

This event is an action of the National Policy on Architecture/New European Bauhaus and in support of Town Centre First policy and the new funding THRIVE Scheme under the ERDF Regional Programmes.