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Big house focus misses bigger picture

Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2003 / September 15 2003: Big house focus misses bigger picture

Any Irish National Trust must not become addicted to preserving big country houses to the exclusion of other interests. That's according to the Heritage Council of Ireland. Dr Hugh Maguire, spokesman for the council, said such a Trust was also at risk of skewing people's perceptions of history, and of focusing purely on selected architectural styles of the past.

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