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Below are samples of some of the initiatives and events that take place during National Heritage Week. If you would like us to hear about the event you were involved in please send a short summary with an image (if you have one) to events@heritagecouncil.ie

Wild Child Day: Wild Child Day, Saturday the 21st of August
Volunteer Programme: Need an extra hand during National Heritage Week?
Irish Sporting Heritage: Irelands sporting landscape is forever changing. This project identifies and records that change over one hundred and fifty years.
Archive Awareness Campaign 2009: Archive Awareness Campaign To Launch During Heritage Week 2009
2008: Whale Watch Ireland: THIS year, to coincide with Heritage Week, the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group (IWDG) is holding Whale Watch Ireland 2008 (an All-Ireland whale-watching day) on Sunday 24 August from 2-5pm....
2008: Walled Towns Day 24th August: The day will be packed with events, such as battle re-enactments, medieval drama, pageants, puppet shows, music, crafts and guided tours of the towns and city walls.
2008: Villages of Tradition: Eight villages form the Ballyhoura Villages of Tradition in Limerick and Cork, all of which are celebrating Heritage Week in their own way....
2008: The Majestic Bilberry Goats Of Waterford: This gentle-natured, shaggy-haired species can only be found on the hills within Waterford city limits where the herd has been living for hundreds of years and yet they are feral - a wild roaming herd of goats living in an urban area.
2008: Postcards From The Big Alley: The Aim of ‘Postcards From The Big Alley’, is to encourage awareness and appreciation of old ‘big alleys’- the 30x60 feet handball alleys built across Ireland mainly in the first half of the 20th century, and to encourage community pride in these alleys.
2008: Asylum Productions Present Six By Sundown: Visitors to the Callan Workhouse in Kilkenny from 26-30 August will witness a site-specific event that combines theatre and visual arts in an extraordinary way. Performed by Asylum Productions, Six by Sundown is described as a "promenade-style visual spectacle".

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