Tour at a glance
Group Size: 20 adults
Location: Clarke Square, Curator's Choice, GAA: People, Objects, Stories, Eileen Gray, Soldiers & Chiefs, Irish Wars 1919 to 1923, Exhibiting the Nation
Duration: 45 minutes
Available: Tuesday - Friday, 10:30, 11:30, 13:30 and 14:30.
Booking: Please contact bookings@museum.ie to book this session.
This tour views the exhibitions of Collins Barracks through alternative lenses, bringing some hidden histories and perspectives to the fore. Focusing on objects and individuals from the 17th to the 21st century, the tour reveals a wide variety of identities, genders and sexualities along the way. While the tour is not a complete or comprehensive LGBTQIA+ history of the collection at Collins Barracks, we aim to highlight the rich diversity of lives and experiences on the island of Ireland across time through some of the objects on display.
Spanning the establishment of the Barracks itself to Ireland’s passing of the Marriage Equality Referendum in 2015, highlights include the non-conformist chair by world renowned designer and architect Eileen Gray and artefacts belonging to some of the women of Ireland’s revolutionary period.
Participant Feedback
A hugely interesting (and at times surprising) tour showing the often erased queer history of Ireland
To learn more about this tour, and the research project which informed it's creation, please follow the link below:
LGBTQIA+ Tour of Collins Barracks | Decorative Arts & History | National Museum of Ireland
The National Museum of Ireland’s programming on LGBTQIA+ topics include exciting events, talks, webinars and workshops. You can access the Museum’s YouTube channel at the following link to learn more:
LGBTI+ history at the National Museum of Ireland - YouTube