Irish Georgian Society

A fully illustrated book by Robert O'Byrne on the society's first 50 years was published in 2008.[2]

An earlier Irish Georgian society had been set up in part by John Pentland Mahaffy and functioned from 1908 to 1913.

Notable achievements of the Irish Georgian Society include the saving of threatened great buildings such as Castletown House, County Kildare; Damer House, County Tipperary; Doneraile Court, County Cork; Roundwood, Co. Laois; Tailors’ Hall, Dublin and 13 Henrietta Street, Dublin.

Other projects include the restoration of mid-eighteenth-century panelled rooms at Ledwithstown, County Longford; the repair of the early nineteenth-century south tower roof at Barmeath Castle, Co. Louth; the restoration of the pavilion cupolas of Kilshannig, Co. Cork, built in the 1760s to the designs of the Italian architect Davis Ducart; and, in association with the Department of the Environment, Heritage & Local Government, the World Monuments Fund and the Headfort Trust, the restoration of the superb Robert Adam decorative schemes at Headfort, County Meath.

Another major project (2011- ) was the restoration of Dublin's 1760s City Assembly House in South William Street, the first purpose-built public exhibition gallery in Britain or Ireland.[3] From 1809 it was the debating chamber of Dublin Corporation for nearly a century, and was the scene of many famous speeches by Daniel O'Connell.

Much of the society's income comes from supporters outside Ireland. In the US they are registered since 1968 as the Irish Georgian Society Inc., and in the UK as the "Irish Georgian Trust".[4] The society's work within the Republic of Ireland is managed by the Irish-registered Irish Georgian Foundation, registered in 1970.[5]