A project to explore the meaning of heritage for
21st century Ireland 

Heritage is a complex, changing and ever-developing part of life in Ireland. It means many things to many different people. Placing Voices - Voicing Places is a collaborative project that explores what heritage means to people today and how heritage has a central role to play in the integration of a multi-cultural Ireland. A collaboration between University College Dublin, CREATE and Dublin City Council, the project brings together archaeologists, artists, policy analysts, local government officials and sociologists to work with the diverse communities of inner-city Dublin  in articulating and exploring the many heritages that are part of their everyday lives. 

This project was funded by the Heritage Council, with additional funding provided by the UCD Research Seed Funding Scheme and the Dublin City Council Integration Fund

Project Leaders

University College Dublin
Pat Cooke, School of Art History and Cultural Policy
Alice Feldman, School of Sociology & Co-Director of __the Migration and Citizenship Research Initiative
Tadhg O’Keeffe, School of Archaeology
Ian Russell, Humanitites Institute of Ireland

Dublin City Council
Cormac O’Donnell, Strategic Policy Manager, Office for Integration

CREATE
Sarah Tuck, Executive Director

Research Team

Michael Brown, Photographer
Terry Fagan, Dublin Folklore Project
Ursula Rani Sarma, Artist
Sean Lynch, Artist
Paddy Ryan, Project Archaeologist
Darcy Alexandra, Centre for Transcultural Research _and Media Practice, Dublin Institute of Technology
Bernie Pierce, Lourdes Senior Day Care Centre
Laura McDonnell, North Dublin City Centre ______ _Community Action Project
Nadette Foley, Dublin Multicultural Resource _____ _Centre