Design store: Exploring Irish design at the National Museum

Carol O’Callaghan explores the ever-evolving Irish design collection at the National Museum of Ireland.

We’re all familiar with the expression ‘saving it for the nation’, something the National Museum of Ireland is doing with Irish design in an ever-developing programme of acquisitions, ensuring an unbroken chronology of our design achievements by designers at home and abroad, and by those who design and make in Ireland — regardless of nationality.