Case Studies

Samples of work conducted by the Heritage Research Group

Recent work has focused on the following:

  • promoting and encouraging genealogy tourism

  • the memory and commemoration of wars and rebellions

  • the development of heritage trails and battlefield tourism in post-conflict situations

  • the development of content for museum exhibitions and films

  • curatorial practice

  • cultural identities

  • language policy and pedagogy

  • ethnomusicology

  • Irish traditional music

  • historical cultural politics

  • local history

  • historical geography

  • archaeological survey (rural and urban)

  • medieval friaries

  • big houses and landed estates

  • contemporary art in rural places

  • community mapping projects

  • space/place studies

  • festivals and events

  • visitor satisfaction

  • landscape management

  • agri-environment schemes

  • environmental policy and planning

  • nature conservation

  • digital heritage