This article humorously critiques the popular Irish property show 'The Great House Revival' and suggests a more satirical alternative featuring property developers, vulture funds, and institutional landlords. It contrasts the show's focus on restoring historic homes with the reality of Ireland's property market, where land value and profit often take precedence over preservation.
We already have Great House Revival. What we need now is Feck the Preservation Order, Let’s Knock It and Build an Office Block
Maybe it’s about time we got a home-makeover show that featured not upwardly mobile suburbanites with hope in their hearts but international property developers, vulture funds and institutional landlords with line graphs where their souls should be. I’d watch that. They are a study in contrasts. Bannon is perpetually martyred by us. Wallace is delighted with our shenanigans. Together this could be a recipe for perfection. I’d love to see them do a show together. I’d love to see them raise a child together, to be honest. And by “a child” I mean, specifically, me. Could this be a programme for RTÉ’s autumn line-up?
In this week’s episode Wallace visits Aoibheann MacNamara, a Galway restaurateur who is trying to patch up a rundown cottage in Co Clare – or, as Wallace calls it, “a dilapidated herdsman cottage exposed to the elements in this rocky nowhereland”. The Great House Revival has to be filmed over a long time because having a house done up is painstakingly slow and expensive. I think that’s why we like watching it. Once the Catholic church waned, it was clear the Irish people would need to reinvent purgatory as home improvement.
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