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Ireland Museums
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Harbour Museum
Heritage & Museum Service, Harbour Square, Derry, Derry
A traditional museum, with emphasis on the city's maritime and riverine connections. Displays also include miscellaneous artefacts which help stimulate a Victorian atmosphere. Temporary exhibitions are regularly displayed....
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Mill Museum
Shop Street, Tuam, Galway
On the left hand side of the bridge as you walk down Shop Street in Tuam is an old corn mill which has now become Tuam's Mill Museum. This undershot mill traces its origin to the 17th century.

Today the mill wheel still turns and the machinery in the mill itself is operational. Inside the miller's house one can see miniature examples of four types of mill in operation. The tour of the mill includes a slide show on the history of Tuam and its surrounding areas. The tourist office is also...
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Knock Folk Museum
Knock, Mayo
Knock Folk museum, officially opened and blessed in May of 1987 and is located on the grounds of then Knock Shrine. Knock has rapidly established itself as one of the major tourist attractions in Ireland. The museum's theme 'A look into the past' portrays life in 19th century rural Ireland and the museum itself is divided into fifteen sections each devoted to a particular subject. It attempts to delve deeper into the past so that visitors will gain a sense of historic place.
It also takes...
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Michael Davitt Museum
Straide, Foxford, Mayo
The Michael Davitt Museum and the adjoining community centre were opened on 23 April 1984 in Straide to honour its native son, Michael Davitt, founder of the National Land League, politician and one of Ireland's greatest patriots.
Michael Davitt (1846-1906) was the founder, chief organiser and inspiring genius of the Land League, the biggest mass movement in modern Irish history, which transformed tenant-farmers into owner-occupiers by constitutional means. When Michael was four years...
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art
Royal Hospital, Kilmainham, Dublin 8, Dublin
The Irish Museum of Modern Art is one of the most exciting developments in the Irish arts world.
The museum presents, through its permanent collection and temporary programmes, international and Irish art of the 20th century with associated educational and community programmes.
Performance, theatre and music are included in its work, with particular emphasis on the overlap between the visual and performing arts.
The Royal Hospital Kilmainham, the finest 17th-century bu...
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Pearse Museum Saint Endas Park
One Star
Saint Endas Park, Grange Road, Rathfarnham, Dublin 16, Dublin
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...
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Ballyferriter Museum/Musaem Chorca Dhuibhne
Old School House, Ballyferriter, Kerry
The museum is situated in an old school-house which can be dated back to 1875.  Local archaeology, natural history and history as well as periodic temporary exhibitions can be seen here....
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Carraig Craft Visitor Centre
Mount Nugent, Cavan, Cavan

Basketry Museum, exhibition to traditional baskets in rod, rush and straw with audio visual presentation. Craft shop, coffee shop, tourist information, craft workshop, lectures and demonstrations. Bus and car park facilities

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Kerry Bog Village Museum
Glenbeigh, Kerry
The Kerry Bog Village Museum and Village at Glenbeigh on the magnificent Ring of Kerry is a unique rural attraction to delight young and old who are interested in finding out more on the domestic lifestyles of the Irish in the earlly 1800's. It aims to create a period setting where you can visit and experience the past and understand the way of life in Ireland during this era....
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City Museum
Spanish Arch, Galway, Galway
Material associated with the history of Galway City and County Galway folk material....
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