Cultural and Heritage Studies at the National Print Museum wins AONTAS Star Award! The Cultural and Heritage Studies course at the National Print Museum are delighted to announce that they won a 2020 AONTAS STAR Award! The STAR Awards is an initiative of AONTAS, the National Adult Learning...
The National Print Museum is delighted to announce that its Cultural and Heritage Studies Course has been shortlisted for an AONTAS STAR Award 2020! AONTAS is Ireland’s national adult learning organisation who promote the value and benefits of adult learning, and advocate on behalf of the...
PrintLab opens at the National Print Museum on 16 February 2019. Four kids’ fablabs, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, open across Europe for letterpress and printing, inspired by tinkering and making. About Creative Makers Creative Makers innovates the traditional craft sectors of letterpress...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon, the National Print Museum is delighted to announce the opening of "To the Moon". The exhibition, curated by Dr Ciaran Swan, explores Ireland's response to the man landing of the moon through print. Given the historical...
The National Print Museum is awarded Best Museum/Restored Heritage Site 2018 at the Industrial Heritage Awards of Ireland. Ireland’s industrial heritage is continually being changed or destroyed. There has been a growing public awareness of Ireland’s industrial heritage, as seen in a number of sites which...
The National Print Museum is delighted to announce an exhibition of work by Year 2 BA [Hons] Illustration students of the National College of Art and Design. The students worked with illustration Programme Leader Brendon Deacy and Jamie Murphy at Distillers Press to explore the fiftieth...
This exhibition commemorates the centenary of the first female vote in Ireland through exploration of the use of print media by the Irish suffragists, and their opponents, in their methods of promotion and protest. The exhibition aims to shine a light on a neglected period...
Letterpress work by Jim Wilder The Wild Apple Press is an American private press, printing mostly stories and imprints about Ireland and by Irish writers. The Press grew out the ‘book arts’ program at the University of Alabama in the mid-1970s, initially printing broadsides and ephemera....
Green Sleeves, The Irish Printed Record Cover 1955-2017 This exhibition examines the Irish-printed album cover. Included album covers were all designed and printed in Ireland. The work was completed for Irish groups, who worked at home or abroad, as well as albums from abroad referencing Ireland...
Barrie Tullett, University of Lincoln The Divine Comedy is a poem by Dante Alighieri. Written between 1308 and 1320, it describes Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, and, at a deeper level, represents the souls journey towards God. The Typographic Dante is a series of typographic...
