Ireland has a unique relationship with its legendary past. Kept alive in the histories of the Filí and the Seanchaidhe, Ireland’s gods were not destroyed but - in the words of Mark Williams - demoted to lesser beings. This is an important element of Ireland’s oral histories, which in turn have coloured its popular histories and left many legends for us to parse over today.
On the other side of Irish history we have the ballrooms, the salons, and the private studies of Dublin’s litterati. The seances and unwrapping parties, the mysteries and the macabre, all combining into the secret esoteric orders that strove to unlock the secrets of existence.
Date: Mon 18 May – Sat 29 Aug
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Mon 18 May – Sat 29 Aug
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Sat 1 Aug – Sat 29 Aug
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Wed 1 Jul – Fri 31 Jul
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Sat 8 Aug
Location: Tree Outside Starbucks, 1 College Green
Date: Sat 1 Aug – Sat 29 Aug
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Thu 20 Aug
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
Date: Fri 18 Sep
Location: National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2
