Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July, 14:00 and 15:30
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National Day of Commemoration Weekend Tours
Join us on Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July to mark the National Day of Commemoration.
Exhibitions
Pictured is a camogie dress worn by Maeve Gilroy in the 1960s. She was wearing this dress when she won her second All-Ireland Senior camogie title with Antrim in 1967.
Detail from A Meeting (1918) by Harry Clarke (DC:2021.5), National Museum of Ireland
Temporary Exhibition | On display until March 2026
A New Form of Beauty: Dublin youth culture, street style and subculture history, 1960s to 1990s
View exhibitionImage credits: Top row L-R: Sinead Byrne, Podge O'Farrell, Andy Dalton, Sharon Morrin. Bottom row L-R: Simone Ni Chinneide, Lena Byrne, Sean Gilmartin.
Beyone the Surface exhibition is on display in the Irish Silver Gallery at the National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7
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Find out moreCollections pertaining to the decorative arts and history are maintained by curators in the Art and Industrial Division.
Their role is to collect, manage, and preserve Ireland’s heritage in the decorative and applied arts, as well as its political, economic, military and social history.
The primary aim is to promote a wider understanding of Ireland’s cultural heritage and to highlight the country’s contribution to European decorative arts and in a broader international context.
Did you know?
Ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’) first appeared in 17th century Edo (present-day Tokyo) when a middle-class culture emerged amidst the expansion of the new Japanese capital.
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Dublin 7,
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