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located between 28 July 2010 and 30 May 2015. It was a small museum which offered visitors an insight into the role played by the Post Office in the development of Irish society over many generations. The An Post Museum & Archive continues to hold the Post Office's heritage and philatelic
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collections, mount occasional temporary displays of its material and publish research on aspects of Irish Post Office history. As well as
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and philatelic information and a scale model of the GPO, there were several audio visual presentations,
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External view of the GPO. The museum is largely located in the basement of the building
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about the role of the staff who were actually on duty in the GPO on
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Commissioners of Irish Lights Museum (Baily Lighthouse)
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The Post Office in Ireland - an Illustrated History
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An Post Museum

GPO Museum is located in Central Dublin
General Post Office
O'Connell Street
Dublin
Coordinates
53°20′58″N 6°15′38″W / 53.349502°N 6.260560°W / 53.349502; -6.260560
Luas
Red Line
www.anpost.com/Witness-history
General Post Office
Dublin
Ireland
Irish stamps
An Post
1916 Proclamation
Pepper's ghost dramatisation
Easter Monday 1916
"An Post GPO Witness History to Open 29th March"
"GPO opens doors to An Post's past"
Irish Independent
ISBN
978-1-911024-32-3
An Post Museum, GPO
Visit Dublin: An Post Museum
GPO Witness History
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