Dublin Writers Museum, Literary museum in Parnell Square, Ireland

The Dublin Writers Museum occupies a Georgian townhouse and documents the lives and works of Ireland's most celebrated authors. The displays feature original manuscripts, personal correspondence, and everyday objects that belonged to these writers.

Journalist Maurice Gorham proposed a literary museum in the 1970s. It opened on 18 November 1991 at 18 Parnell Square, run by Dublin Tourism, later Fáilte Ireland. It closed in March 2020 during the COVID-19 lockdown and never reopened; in 2022 it was permanently ended. The building is proposed as a museum for stained-glass artist Harry Clarke.

The museum took its name from its subject rather than a founder, though its upper-floor Gorham Library commemorated Maurice Gorham, the journalist who proposed a literary museum in the 1970s. Exhibits drew on writers from Jonathan Swift to Colm Tóibín, and critics noted that most of those represented were male and deceased.

The museum at 18 Parnell Square closed in March 2020 and never reopened; its permanent closure was decided in 2022, so there is nothing to visit inside. The red-brick Georgian house and its grey stone tower can still be seen from the paved square, next door to No. 19 and facing the Garden of Remembrance. Fáilte Ireland still holds the collection, and a plan proposes the building as a Harry Clarke museum.

Among the exhibits were Jonathan Swift's coffee pot, Samuel Beckett's telephone, James Joyce's typewriter, and Brendan Behan's union cards and a letter. A replica of the Book of Kells was also kept there. Critics noted that most writers represented were male and deceased.