National Leprechaun Museum Cafe

The National Leprechaun Museum was established in March 2009 by Tom O’Rahilly at Twilfit House, Jervis Street, Dublin ( www.leprechaunmuseum.ie ). It is the world’s first Leprechaun Museum and is housed in the ground floor of a former corset factory. The northern facade of the building presents a blank frontage to a major public open space in Dublin, Wolfe Tone Square. The proposed cafe will animate the southern edge of this square and provide the museum with a highly visible public interface.

The leprechaun was a mythological figure in Irish folklore who could lead one to treasure buried at the end of a rainbow. The proposed cafe design interprets this by forming a canopy lit by fibre optic cable cycling through the colours of the rainbow.