museums ireland

Tullyarvan Mill is an old mill which through the efforts of a local community enterprise group has been restored to provide a beautiful visitors centre....

The Garda Siochana Museum is the museum of the Republic of Ireland's national police force. It is located in Dublin Castle. The archivist is Inspector John Duffy, Dip Arc Sc.

The museum contains a vast amount of both archival and artefactual material, relating not only to the Garda Siochana, but also to the Irish Constabulary, The Royal Irish Constabulary, The Dublin Police, and The Dublin Metropolitan Police....

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...

Donaghmore Museum, is an old workhouse, built as a result of the Great Famine. About 1,200 people were doomed to be paupers and forced to take refuge there.

It has been restored by Avonmore and now houses an agricultural museum. The kitchen, dormitories and waiting hall have all been restored and the museum is open to the public during the summer months....

The Natural History Museum which is part of the National Museum of Ireland, is a zoological museum containing collections illustrative of the wild life, both vertebrate and invertebrate, of Ireland. There is also an extensive African and Asian exhibition. The Irish Room is located on the ground floor, Irish mammals are displayed in the centre of the floor including: the red deer, the squirrel, otter, hare, badger, fox, etc; Irish birds are also exhibited, a special feature being the displays...

The County Museum in Dundalk is housed in a beautifully restored late 18th century warehouse and offers four floors of excellent exhibition space. The ground floor display is on the history of industry in County Louth. Group activities for children such as painting, clay modelling, quizzes, etc are provided for in the specially fitted activities room. All floors have disabled access.

Freemason's Hall is in the heart of Dublin near the National Library, the National Museum, Leinster House, and the National Gallery.
It is a mid Victorian purpose built in the 1860s from a prize winning design by the Birmingham architect, Edward Holmes.

It has been the headquarters of Freemasonry in Ireland since. The building houses a number of meeting rooms, each one of which is decorated in a different architectural style, including an Egyptian style room and a mock Gothic Room.

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....

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...

Climb on board for a short train ride - or travel further afield on a special mainline steam excursion. Many engines and coaches are on display in transport museums and railway centres, with memorabilia from the golden age of steam. The first railway in Ireland opened in 1834, and the network quickly reached into all corners of the island. By 1920 almost 3,500 miles of track threaded the countryside and no Irish town was more than 10 miles from a railway station. Ireland's national railw...