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Public Museums

Local authorities may provide and manage museums to exhibit objects which show the history of the locality and its people and preserve them for future generations.

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Museum of Hidden History

This is a state-of-the-art visitor experience in the civic centre of Clonmel, Co. Tipperary in the heart of Ireland’s Ancient East. Completely re-imagined and redesigned, the new Museum brings Tipperary’s rich hidden history vividly to life through characters, stories and is one of the largest museum collections in Ireland. 

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Tipperary Museum’s collection was first founded in the 1940’s and was the first purpose-built Local Authority County Museum in Ireland.

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Thomas MacDonagh Museum

One of the seven signatories of the Proclamation in 1916, he was born in Cloughjordan in 1878, son of teachers Joseph MacDonagh and Mary Louise Parker. He had two sisters and three brothers. He went to Rockwell College, Cashel, Co Tipperary in 1894 initially to train as a priest but found he did not have a vocation and became a teacher. He taught in St Kieran’s College Kilkenny (1901-1903) and in St Colman’s College in Fermoy, Co. Cork (1903-1908) before joining the staff at St. Enda’s School in Dublin in 1908. He was a member of the Gaelic League.