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4626 N Knox Ave • Chicago IL 60630 • 773/282-7035 • Fax 773/282-0380 • Email |
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| The Museum Due to the extensive collections, a tour guide or docent will accompany all visitors thru the museum. The museum is open by appointment - to tour groups. It is also open, during certain Cultural Program events, and traveling Art shows which are hosted in our Art Gallery across the hall. Please call our office to arrange for a museum tour. The museum was officially opened by the President of Ireland, Mrs. Mary Robinson, on October 13, 1991. President Robinson was the Honorary President of the Irish American Heritage Center.  Museum acquisitions include a magnificent collection of Belleek Parian China; a tapestry by Lily Yeats, sister of W.B. Yeats; a historic chair commissioned by The Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago on the occasion of the visit of U.S. President William Howard Taft on St. Patrick's Day, 1910; a square grand piano dating from the late nineteenth century; an exquisite collection of Irish Lace; the first organ from St. Patrick's Church in St. Charles, Illinois; and a series of historic maps showing the Irish contribution to European culture from the sixth to the twelfth centuries. Ornate Chair Commissioned by The Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago used for dignitaries at their St. Patrick's Day Dinners.
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