If you wish to cut to the panel discussion, it starts around 9 mins, 15 seconds, of (into) this video.
Introduction, “as Dublin continues to change at pace, what do we stand to lose?
Inspired by Gerard Byrne’s exhibition Before I Go. Vanishing Dublin, this panel. -filmed in conversation (find link to film here) – brought together historians, heritage advocates, and cultural voices to explore the relationship between architecture, memory, and civic identity — and to ask what happens to a city when the old makes way for the new, and specificity gives way to sameness.
Moderated by Donal Fallon, historian, author, and presenter of the Three Castles Burning podcast, with:
- Donough Cahill, Irish Georgian Society
- Vanessa Fielding, The Complex
- Arran Henderson, Dublin Decoded
- Daryl Hendley Rooney, The Little Museum of Dublin
Recorded at the Gerard Byrne Gallery, Trinity St, Dublin, April 16th 2026.
Top image, Huband Bridge, painted by Gerard Byrne, © Gerard Byrne Gallery, Trinity St, Dublin.