museums ireland

This centre allows you to share the experiences of the men and women who served in the armed forces and the factories during the First World War. The centre displays artefacts of the time including uniforms, weapons and personal items. Through the use of a computer database, visitors can also find casualty information on individuals who fell at the Somme....

General Description: Situated in a beautifully restored 19th century Georgian residence, the Centre features a unique audio-visual interpretative museum on the North Kerry Writers including John B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon, George Fitzmaurice, Brendan Kennelly and Maurice Walsh. Also includes the Literary Café and Restaurant, a gift & book shop, archival library, and annual arts & literary programmes. Seanchaí is a museum of words & spirit where the imaginative worlds of t...

The Waterford Heritage Museum is located in the city centre, near Reginald's Tower. The museum houses two fascinating collections. On the ground floor, beautiful artifacts from the Viking and Medieval periods are on display. These artifacts were recovered during recent excavations in the city centre. The mezzanine floor houses one of Ireland's greatest collections of decorated royal charters and civic regalia....

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...

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

St. Enda's is now a museum of the school known as St. Enda's. The school was founded by Patrick Pearse, who was one of the rebels in the 1916 Rising. Pearse qualified as a barrister, but was more interested in the Irish Educational system.

His article "The Murder Machine," condemned the methods of colonialist education. He founded St. Enda's in 1910 in a small mansion in Rathfarnham, in order to provide an alternative education, which would embrace the Irish language, literature, histo...

Housed in an attractive, small stone, former church at the Slaney River Bridge....

The Town Museum was once the old Railway goods store. Opened in June 1989 by Mr. Tom Flatley, a native of Kiltimagh now living in Boston, this quaint museum houses many items of local historical interest. It is well worth a visit to fully appreciate the history of Kiltimagh....