museums around south dublin

This former school, run by Patrick Pearse is now a museum dedicated to his memory and set in beautiful grounds.
Attractions include exhibitions, a nature study room with attractive displays on Irish flora and fauna and an audio-visual show entitled "This Man Kept a School".

The tea rooms are open during the summer monthsand weekends Feb-Apr and Oct, outdoor concerts during summer season. There is access for visitors with disabilities to the ground floor and Nature Study Centre.
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The James Tower in Sandycove is famous as the setting for the opening of James Joyce's Ulysses, now acclaimed as the greatest and most influential novel of the twentieth century.
Dramatically located on a cliff-top overlooking the sea, the tower stands eight miles south of Dublin on the coast road. It clearly impressed Joyce, whose brief stay here in 1904 inspired the opening of Ulysses.
Stately, plump Buck Mulligan gazes out at the 'snotgreen' sea from this tower in the openi...

Lambert Puppet Theatre holds one performance every Saturday and Sunday which starts at 15.30 and is opened to the public.
The Theatre seats up to 300 people. Every month there is a new show.

Saturday shows are suitable for children age four and up as well as adults. During the months of May and June the Theatre presents a performance every day.
The performances are taken from the Lambert Puppet Theatre large repertoire on the day so that the show best matches the interests of the...