Museum of Literature Ireland, Literary museum in Dublin, Ireland

The Museum of Literature Ireland occupies a Georgian house at St Stephen's Green in Dublin, spread across multiple floors with exhibition spaces. Each floor displays manuscripts, letters, and personal objects belonging to various Irish writers.

The museum opened on Culture Night, 20 September 2019, in Newman House, the original home of University College Dublin. The project began in 2012 with a budget of just over €10 million and was funded by Martin and Carmel Naughton, Fáilte Ireland and UCD. It was first conceived as a James Joyce centre called Ulysses House before expanding to cover Irish literature.

The name MoLI is an acronym pronounced "Molly", a homage to Molly Bloom, the central character of James Joyce's Ulysses. The museum's Riverrun of Language installation, named after the first word of Joyce's Finnegans Wake, responds to visitors' movements with showers of spoken literature and folklore. Its first revolving exhibition was on Kate O'Brien, followed by one on Nuala O'Faolain.

The building includes a connected garden leading to Iveagh Gardens, and there is a café in the lower level for refreshments. You can explore the exhibitions independently or join a guided tour depending on how much depth you prefer in your visit.

The museum holds Joyce's own "Copy No. 1" of Ulysses, which he inscribed to his patron Harriet Weaver. It sits alongside the Riverrun of Language, an installation named after the first word of Finnegans Wake that answers visitors' movements with showers of spoken literature and folklore.