National Landscape Forum 2025 | Perspective, Informative, Decisive

Over the past 30 years the National Landscape Forum has consistently managed to get to the heart of the matter with regard to the responsible, sustainable management, protection and planning of our landscape. In that time it has reflected the formulation and development of the European Landscape Convention 2000 (ELC), championed Ireland’s ratification of the convention and contributed to the preparation of Ireland’s visionary National Landscape Strategy 2015. This year, marking a number of significant landscape milestones, the forum convenes at the Sheraton Athlone Hotel on the 25/26 September and where better to get to the heart of our landscape than in the middle of our Hidden Heartlands.

Speakers sharing landscape perceptions, insights, knowledge and guidance on decision-making  this year include Eddie Mitchell & Neil Foulkes of Save Leitrim, Andrew Scanlon of Landscape Architects for Ukraine, Cathrine Agnew & Danielle O’Donovan of12Foot Consultancy, Lisa Smyth, Senior Executive Parks Superintendent, Galway City Council, David Jameson & Evelyn D’Arcy of 12th Field Architects, Gabriel Mullarkey, Architect storyteller, Jack Workman of MKO Environmental Consultancy, Liam Campbell of The Mellon Centre for Migration Studies, Shay Hamilton of Athlone Canal Heritage Committee, Feargus McGarvey, Landscape Architect of Mitchell & Associates, Aengus Finnegan of UL, Grainne Hasset of UL, Linda Gilsenan of Wildway Design, Anna Orman of Clara Heritage Society and Amy Strecker, Terry O’Regan, Tony Williams and Ruth Minogue, all of Landscape Alliance Ireland. Harman Murtagh, renowned military historian and more will lead a field trip exploration of Athlone’s urban landscape.
Athlone is an ideal venue for this year’s ‘milestone’ forum due to its island centrality, its cultural significance & it’s key location in the River Shannon heartland catchment of many rivers, lakes, uplands, valleys, bogs, woodlands, callows, farmlands, cultural buildings/artefacts and dynamic communities.

Registration is open on Eventbrite - 

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Registration fee which includes light lunch on both days - concession €70 or € 140 for those who can recover cost as work expense. NLF25 has both IPI & ILI CPD accredited.

Landscape Alliance Ireland acknowledges with thanks the sponsorship/support of NLF2025 by the National Built Heritage Service (DHLGH), Westmeath County Council, Irish Landscape Institute, Irish Planning Institute, Bord Bia & MKO.