Starting when he was 12 in 1939, the late Jackie Clarke was a businessman who amassed an extraordinary collection of 100,000 items covering 400 years of Irish history. With a lovely walled garden and housed in an 1881 bank building, this well-curated museum brims with eclectic surprises.
Jackie Clarke Collection
County Mayo
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National Museum of Country Life
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