museums ireland

In addition to wonderful mosaics by famous Russian artist Boris Anrep, Frescoes, canvases, models of the Cathedral, vestments worn by St. Oliver Plunket and a ring once owned by Queen Marie Antoinette. Viewing by appointment only....

The Irish literary tradition is one of the most illustrious in the world, famous for four Nobel prize-winners and for many other writers of international renown. In 1991 the Dublin Writers Museum was opened to house a history and celebration of literary Dublin....

At the end of Ireland's widest main street - laid out by the 2nd Lord Hartland as the widest street in Europe - a Georgian Gothic arch leads to Strokestown Park House, seat of the Pakenham Mahon family from 1600 to 1979.
The house was designed for Thomas Mahon in the 1730s by the German architect Richard Castle and incorporates parts of an earlier tower house. The central block is the residential part of the house. The north wing houses Ireland's last galleried kitchen (a gallery in the...

Open farm with farm museum, gardens, tea house, craft and antiques shop and farm animals. Building which represents a 12th century place of worship and a beautiful closed garden which is an ancient burial ground. Also a holy well which is used for its healing properties....

The only Irish Standard Gauge 1600mm (5'3'') working Railway Museum. The Terminus 150 metres from St Patrick's Heritage Centre. Housing steam and diesel locomotives, century old carriages, rebuilt signal cabin and engine shed. The railway carries passengers southwards to Ballydugan and northwards across the marshes and the River Quoile to the tranquil 12th century ruins of Inch Abbey.

Ask about the train rides along a restored section of the BCDR Belfast-Newcastle main line t...

The special atmosphere of Ireland's countryside has a lot to do with its traditional way - the feeling of contact with older wisdoms. In the farms of the countryside, especially, there is a continuity of love for the land and its domestic animals. Farming is still a family affair, with a lifestyle that respects old courtesies and the habit of kindness to strangers....

This town is about 13 miles from Mullingar and was built in the late 17th century by the Pollard family under a charter from Charles II. The old National school has been converted into an agricultural museum and heritage centre. Just outside Castlepollard in Tullynally Castle, the home of the Earl of Longford's family, the Packenhams.

The gardens are open from May to September....

Just a few steps from Shop Street, by St. Nicholas Collegiate Church, nestles the smallest museum in Ireland, a perfect setting in which to take you back through the romantic mists of time. This tiny turn of the century house was the home of Nora Barnacle, companion wife and life-long inspiration of James Joyce, Ireland's greatest writer.

It was here in 1909, sitting at the kitchen table that Joyce first met his darling's mother. Letters, photographs and other exhibits of the lives of...

The Kilmore Maritime Museum is housed on board the "Guillemot" - the last remaining complete lightship. The artifacts, models, paintings, carals, natural history and maritime records offer a superb display, in a setting which retains the original fittings and feel of the lightship herself....

Irish Labour Society History Society Museum and Archives....