Nora Barnacle House Museum

Just a few steps from Shop Street, by St. Nicholas Church nestles the smallest museum in Ireland, a perfect setting in which to take you back through the romantic mists of time. This tiny turn of the century house was the home of Nora Barnacle companion, wife & lifelong inspiration of James Joyce Ireland’s greatest writer. It was here in 1909, sitting at the kitchen table that Joyce first met his darling's mother. Letters, photographs & other exhibits of the lives ofJames Joyce & Nora Barnacle make a visit here a unique experience. The house is of interest to both those with a passion for literature & the history of Galway & Ireland. Having been preserved from the 1900s, it gives an insight into daily life at the turn of the century.