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Home » » Museums and Galleries Ireland (Page 2)
Kennedy Homestead
In the summer of 1963 President Kennedy visited Ireland and made an emotional return to the ancestral family homestead. The museum follows the fortunes of the most famous Irish American Family through the 20th century to the present day. This rag to riches story begins at the Kennedy Homestead, birthplace of President John F Kennedy’s great-grandfather, who was forced to leave during the famine.
Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience
The Dunbrody Famine Ship Experience is one of the premier tourist attractions in the South East of Ireland. Centred on an authentic reproduction of an 1840’s emigrant vessel, it provides a world-class interpretation of the famine emigrant experience.
The Ros Tapestry
The Ros Tapestry is a spectacular embroidered work, in the tradition of the Bayeux Tapestry and definitely worth going to see if visiting Wexford. A hundred embroiderers and millions of stitches have drawn in the threads of history and created fifteen striking embroidered panels – 6 x 4 foot each – depicting events around the Anglo-Norman arrival in the South East of Ireland.
National Museum of Ireland – Natural History
Also known as ‘The Dead Zoo’, the Museum’s 10,000 exhibits provide a glimpse of the natural world that has delighted generations of visitors since the doors opened in 1857.
Skerries Mills
A unique collection of two windmills and a watermill with associated mill pond, mill races, wetlands and is the perfect place to visit on a day trip or bring the family
Rothe House
Rothe House, is a unique Irish 17th century merchant’s townhouse complex located in the city of Kilkenny, Ireland. It is an important element of Kilkenny’s heritage and is the centre for Irish genealogy in Kilkenny city and county.
Crawford Art Gallery
Crawford Art Gallery, a National Cultural Institution and regional art museum for Munster, is dedicated to the visual arts, both historic and contemporary. Located in the heart of Cork city, beside the Opera House, the Gallery is a critical part of Ireland’s cultural and tourism infrastructure, welcoming over 200,000 visitors a year.
National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
With exhibitions spread over four floors, the Museum gives its visitors a unique opportunity to see how the people of Ireland lived in the hundred years between the Great Famine and the end of the 1950s.
Skibbereen Famine Graveyard
From newspaper accounts of the time, Skibbereen was depicted as being symbolic of the destitution and hardship caused by the failure of the potato crop. Between 8,000 and 10,000 unidentified souls are buried here in the Famine graveyard at Abbeystrewery near Skibbereen.
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