Join our resident eco-gardener Polly Rowley-Sams to explore the biodiversity of Inchicore.

Discover the ecology of the locality and the surprising flora and fauna found within it on this tour that takes you through St. Michael's Estate, along the canal and back towards the village of Inchicore. Visit some unexpected local treasures along the way. This tour has been developed in collaboration with local environmental groups and highlights the important role we can all play in supporting biodiversity locally.

Join Jean Wallace's Foraging Walking Tour. In this session you will learn how to forage and what to look out for as a beginner forager. We will explore and discuss the urban wild plants in the area that are edible, medicinal and linked to our national food heritage. We will discuss the poisonous look alikes if appropriate! All participants will be provided with an information sheet - this will include: Common and seasonal plants to forage in an urban environment. Recipes for the wild plants available and herbal remedies.

Goldenbridge Cemetery is Ireland's first garden cemetery and was founded by ‘the Liberator’ Daniel O’Connell almost 200 years ago.

Visitors will be guided through this unspoilt cemetery and learn about its unique history, including the vaults, the armed guards, the Cuban bloodhounds, the body snatchers and the people buried in the historically significant and interesting graves within its walls.

Feast your eyes on the NMI’s collections and discover some of its most famous foodie artefacts on our ‘Taster Tour’. Join our guide Sheila for a tour on the history of food and drink throughout the collections of Collins Barracks.

Booking not required, sign up at reception before the tour starts. For more information, see here.

Feast your eyes on the NMI’s collections and discover some of its most famous foodie artefacts on our ‘Taster Tour’. Join our guide Sheila for a tour on the history of food and drink throughout the collections of Collins Barracks.

Booking not required, sign up at reception before the tour starts. For more information, see here.

Dig in to the NMI’s collections. Museum educators will facilitate an interactive handling session with objects from the Museum’s handling collection.

Please feel free to drop by for this session anytime between 12-2pm.

No booking required, drop-in event, for more information see here.

Early bird tour! Feast your eyes on the NMI’s collections and discover some of its most famous foodie artefacts on our ‘Taster Tour’. Join our guide Sheila for a tour on the history of food and drink throughout the collections of Collins Barracks.

For more information, see here.