Leisure in Ireland

• Armagh Planetarium

  

  College Hill, Armagh, Co. Armagh, BT61 9DB

  Tel: 00 44 28 3752 3689
  Web: Visit website
  Type: museums

  Relax under the stars, explore galaxies, and go traversing the universe from the comfort of Co Armagh. Dr Eric Lindsay pushed for the project during his time as director of Armagh’s observatory. The planetarium project was approved and first opened...... more

• Wexford Festival Opera

  

  High Street, Wexford, Co. Wexford

  Tel: 053 9122400
  Web: Visit website
  Type: culture

  Wexford Opera House is a progressive cultural centre of excellence in opera, musicals and music-theatre.... more

• St Patrick's Day at the Hunt Museum

  

  Custom House, Rutland St., Limerick, Co. Limerick

  Tel: +353 61 312833
  Web: Visit website
  Type: museums

  Directly following the parade, the Hunt Museum will be celebrating Irish myths and legends. Anybody wearing green will receive free admission to the museum before 5.00pm. The themed arts and crafts session for children will be held in the education...... more

• National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology

  

  Kildare St, Dublin 2, Dublin

  Tel: 01 6777444
  Web: Visit website
  Type: culture

  The exhibition The Treasury was reopened in June 2011. It shows the unique treasures of early medieval Ireland, exploring their connections with both the pagan past and the wider Christian culture of the time. The objects on display are of...... more

• National Museum of Ireland-Country Life

  

  Turlough Park, Castlebar, Co Mayo

  Tel: +353 94 903 1498
  Web: Visit website
  Type: culture

  The Museum of Country Life is the youngest of the four museums that make up the National Museum of Ireland. Set in the spectacular grounds of Turlough Park, Co. Mayo, it opened in September 2001. The Museum is the home of the Irish Folklife...... more

• Abbey Theatre

  

  Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, Co. Dublin

  Tel: +353 1 878 7222
  Web: Visit website
  Type: theatre

  The Abbey Theatre is Ireland’s National Theatre. It was founded by Nobel Laureate William Butler Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904 and has played a vital and often controversial role in the literary, social and cultural life of Ireland....... more

• Crawford Art Gallery

  

  Emmett Place, Cork City, Cork, Co. Cork

  Tel: 00 353 21 490 7852
  Web: Visit website
  Type: art-galleries

  Crawford Art Gallery, a National Cultural Institiution 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...... more

• Monaghan County Museum

  

  12 Hill Street, Monaghan, Co. Monaghan

  Tel: 00 353 47 82928
  Web: Visit website
  Type: museums

  County Monaghan's industrious history of lace and linen-making is preserved in the County Museum, located just off Market Street. The extensive collections tell the story of the county from the Ice Age to the Modern Age. The most prized artifact in...... more

• The Jack B Yeats Room at The K Club, The Book of Kells, The Byerley Turk Painting

  

  The K Club, Straffan, Kildare

  Tel: 0035316017200
  Web: Visit website
  Type: culture

  The Yeats Room at The K Club is a museum-quality collection of paintings and ephemera relating to Ireland’s best-known artist Jack B. Yeats (1871–1957).... more

• Sheelin Irish Lace Museum and Sheelin Antiques

  

  Bellanaleck, Enniskillen, Fermanagh, BT92 2BA, Northern Ireland

  Tel: +44(028) 6634 8052
  Web: Visit website
  Type: culture

  Take a virtual tour of Sheelin Irish Lace Museum and Sheelin Antiques. The museum has approximately 700 exhibits. All the five main types of lace made in Ireland are represented in the collection of Youghal Needlelace, Inishmacsaint Needlelace,...... more