Explore Ireland’s evolving culture with our Decorative Arts, Design and Military History Collection, beside Dublin’s River Liffey
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.
Non-Conformist Chair, Eileen Gray
A ‘Spoon Garden’ inspired by vegetable gardens as her response to Covid-19, with each silver spoon displayed in a wooden block, with a cut out centre.
Detail from A Meeting (1918) by Harry Clarke (DC:2021.5), National Museum of Ireland
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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.
When this robe was acquired by the National Museum of Ireland in 1932 it was believed to be a Lama Priest robe dating to the reign of Kangxi (1662-1722), and associated with the Abbot of the main Tibetan Buddhist temple in China, the YongHeGong in Beijing.
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