museums ireland

The Museum traces the history of a Dublin merchant family over the past 175 years.
The story of the family unfolds from the ruins of Findlater Castle, Scotland, to a friendship with the poet, Robert Burns and through a period of historic achievement in Dublin. All the enterprises that bore the Findlater imprint are faithfully recorded.

The museum is just five minutes from Saint Stephen's Green and Grafton Street and is located within the vast granite and brick vaults under the old Ha...

Thatched roadside museum furnished as a traditional farmhouse. Exhibitions, coffee shop and crafts.. Open Monday - Saturday plus Sunday afternoon May - September, Sunday afternoon only in winter....

The Museum was opened in 1985 by Irish-born President of Israel, Chaim Herzog, and is located in a former Synagogue.
It preserves memorabilia relating to Irish Jewry, including photographs, paintings, certificates, books and artefacts, displaying their important, though small, place in Ireland's cultural and historic heritage.
An original kitchen recreates a typical Sabbath meal setting of the early 1900s.
Alternative times and group visits can be arranged by appointment. Tel. +...

This museum holds a small collection of implements dealing with industrial, farming, rural, shop and home life in the 19th and 20th centuries. It also features scale models of houses excavated in the area, and a large model of medieval Kilmallock. A guided tour of the town is available. Thirteen points of interest are marked by information plaques. Tourist map of town available in selected shops....

Some of Armagh's finest architecture surrounds the Mall. At the north end, the Court House with its classical portico was completed by Johnston in 1809. The stones left over from it went into the building of the nearby Sovereign's House, now the Royal Irish Fusiliers Museum. Although the Regiment no longer exists (it became part of the Royal Irish Rangers in 1968) the museum is considered as one of the best in the Army and has a very fine collection of medals and uniforms, some of them unique...

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...

The schoolhouse, which dates form 1929, captures the atmosphere of a classroom in the embryonic Irish state and reflects a period in Irish education which straddles two centuries. The memorabilia, period school furniture, school work books, readers and photographs are complemented by a 3-dimensional display, showing models of a school teacher and pupils of the 1920s.

The Craft Shop/Art Gallery has a large selection of quality paintings, giftware and knitwear, most of which were produce...

Andrew Jackson Centre, Boneybefore, Carrickfergus. Traditional Ulster-Scots thatched farmhouse, adjacent site where parents of Andrew Jackson 7th President of USA left for America in 1765. Display on President Jackson's life and career, his Ulster relations and rural Ulster life....

The Newry and Mourne Museum was first opened in 1986 and is now housed within Bagenal's castle in Newry, County Down. Through educational events, diverse collections and various exhibitions it provides an insight into the rich cultural heritage of the local area....

This is the Head Quarters and biggest of the four National Museums in Ireland.

The museum of Decorative Arts and History houses a range of fascinating and interesting objects directly related to Irish cultural history, such as weaponry, glassware, jewellery and furniture. ...