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Wed 03 Mar 2010The Louvre of leprechauns
A museum dedicated to Ireland’s mythical little people opens today in a former Fás office on Jervis Street. It has an overscaled room, giant maps, and of course a shop, but is it leprechauny enough?
On Monday, The Irish Timesarrived for a preview at the former Fás building on the corner of Jervis Street and Middle Abbey Street, which now houses Ireland’s newest tourist attraction. The place was still without signage, the shutters were down, and from within the building came a distinctive sound of tap-tap-tapping, like a thousand industrious leprechauns engaged in shoe-mending.
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