Don’t ask me, ask the Leprechaun Museum
Lots of leprechaun sightings are expected through the day
Photo: Flickr.com/valkrye131
It’s St. Patrick’s Day – a day synonymous with Ireland, Guinness, diddlyi music and of course mischievous little leprechauns. But tourists don’t have to wait for Paddy’s Day to find out about the pint sized pests with the pots of gold, they can just go to the first ever Leprechaun Museum.
Tourists flock to Dublin on St. Patrick’s Day to sample the atmosphere in the home of the pub-based festival. The locals are usually more than delighted to play some music for the visitors, direct them to the parade and of course share a few pints of the black stuff. But there is one thing that can rub an Irish man or woman up the wrong way on Paddy’s Day – leprechaun questions.
“Do leprechauns really exist?” and, “Are you a leprechaun?” are just some of the daft questions Irish people have to put up with on the celebrated day. But St. Patrick appears to have answered Irish prayers this year, as the first ever Leprechaun Museum has been opened in Dublin to field all queries relating to Ireland’s little men.
The museum aims to provide a more authentic look at the oral tradition behind leprechauns. It allows people to experience what it's like to be a leprechaun by inviting them into a leprechaun-sized world and to journey to the end of the rainbow to see if that crock of gold actually exists.
Founder and director of the museum Tom O'Rahilly dismisses the suggestion that leprechauns are merely a myth: “Just because you haven’t seen them, doesn’t mean they don’t exist.”
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