by Carol Tallon | Sep 5, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
Community Voices: Carol Tallon in conversation with Frank O’Connor of #DerelictIreland One of the richest, most wide-ranging, placemaking conversations of this 26-county, 26-week non-political placemaking tour so far. A conversation on Pope’s Quay with the co-founder...
by Katie Tallon | Aug 29, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 9 of 26: Placemaking in County Westmeath Who Can Afford to Move? “Faigheann cos ar siúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí” – a walking foot finds something the resting foot never would. 🇪🇺 Week 9 of 26: Place Engage...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 23, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour
🇪🇺 Week 8 of 26: Placemaking in County Meath Week 8 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Meath — where only 32% of residents were born in the county, and that turns out to be the most hopeful figure in the file rather than the most worrying...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 22, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
Ireland’s ‘Planted’ Gaeltacht: why we are not ready to tell this story yet Ireland’s smallest Gaeltacht sits in the middle of County Meath, and it exists only because the State moved – or “planted” – people there. Before I moved to the Gaeltacht in...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 16, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 7 of 26: Place Engage arrives in County Carlow — the second-smallest county in Ireland, and one of the fastest-changing “Faigheann cos ar siúl rud nach bhfaigheann cos ina cónaí” — a walking foot finds something the resting foot...
by Carol Tallon | Aug 10, 2026 | 26-County, 26-Week Placemaking Tour, Placemaking
🇪🇺 Week 6: Placemaking across County Kilkenny Week 6 of Place Engage’s 26-week, 26-county non-political placemaking tour for the duration of Ireland’s EU Council Presidency takes us to County Kilkenny. 104,160 people · average age 39.7 · over-65s up...
