By Laura LaVelle, Wonder Shuffle Culture Editor:

MoLI Blooms

On a recent visit to Dublin, I checked out the Museum of Literature Ireland (otherwise known as MoLI as a small tribute to Molly Bloom).

It's a charming little spot on St. Stephen's Green, housed in what was the original site for University College Dublin, with a beautiful garden, a cafe, and a small but rather sweet bookshop.

Initially planned to be focused on James Joyce, the museum's scope expanded to cover Irish literature more broadly. The current exhibitions include an exploration of Irish romance fiction and a film installation about Oscar Wilde's De Profundis, and the permanent collection includes Joyce's "Copy No. 1" of Ulysses as well as a rather enchanting interactive exhibit, the Riverrun of Language, named from the first word of Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

It's a really delightful place to spend an afternoon, enjoying the beauty of the written word and the culture of a great literary city.

Website: https://moli.ie/

Admission:

Adults: €14.50

Children, students, seniors: €12.00

Members, children under age three, jobseekers, carers, frontline healthcare workers, UCD staff and students: free

Address: UCD Naughton Joyce Centre, 86 St Stephen's Green, Saint Kevin's, Dublin

Hours: daily 10:30am to 5:30pm

About Me

Laura LaVelle is Wonder Shuffle's Culture Editor. A fan of the great indoors, you can find her in her native NYC, her home in Connecticut, or at a concert, play, library, bookstore, or museum just about anywhere in the world.

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